Ihor Karas Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

🔹 About Me 🔹Passionate about leveraging technology to drive business success, I am the Founder and CEO of KarasSoft LLC, a dynamic software company dedicated to revolutionizing the way small and medium businesses operate and thrive. With a relentless commitment to innovation, I lead a talented team in crafting cutting-edge software solutions that empower businesses to streamline operations, enhance productivity, and achieve sustainable growth.🔹 Expertise & Vision 🔹My journey has been marked by a deep understanding of the unique challenges faced by small and medium businesses. Guided by this insight, I've cultivated a company culture centered on innovation, agility, and customer-centricity. Through KarasSoft, we're on a mission to equip businesses with intuitive, tailored software that not only meets their immediate needs but also paves the way for future scalability and success.🔹 Our Impact 🔹Under my leadership, KarasSoft has been at the forefront of driving digital transformation for businesses across diverse industries. From streamlined operations and efficient resource management to enhanced customer experiences, our solutions have delivered tangible, bottom-line results. It's incredibly rewarding to witness our clients achieving their goals and realizing their vision with the help of our software.🔹 What Sets Us Apart 🔹At KarasSoft, we differentiate ourselves by our unwavering commitment to excellence. Our solutions are built on a foundation of innovation, reliability, and a deep understanding of industry dynamics. We're not just in the business of selling software; we're partners in our clients' success stories, providing ongoing support and customization to ensure optimal outcomes.

Rail crossing motoring system with more than 30k users which uses AI to detect status and inform the user about changes over various clients: Telegram bot and channels, iOS and Android apps, Web (https://rail-x.com/ - Ukrainian only). Role functions:- Research and development of a service’s components: web, backend (+Telegram integration), neuronet- Project management- Building financial and project strategy- Building partnerships to make installation IP cameras at the new places and conclude agreements with them- Develop a youtube channel and community- Communicate with ads customers and users- Management of mobile apps development- Search contributors and investors, take participate on accelerators

Zürich, Zürich, Ch

Manage the technical side of SaaS for the global international corporation (under NDA), passed the way from gathering requirements till delivering the solution.Key functions:- Be a part of a management team - Recruiting - Manage the team of 6 members size, work with motivation- Convert business requirements to technical tasks, planning releases and control the feature delivering- Control and optimize a development process- Make decisions about tech stack and the way of development- Acted as a bridge between Backend, Frontend, Mobile developers, and DevOps

Zürich, Zürich, Ch

Develop and support the application for internal use of a global multinational corporation (under NDA).Key functions: - interviewing candidates- manage backend and frontend team- take a part of release planning and feature implementation- design architecture solutions and control implementation- link developers, QA and dev-ops guys together- develop and optimize bottlenecks etc.

Zürich, Zürich, Ch

KSF Ltd. provides outsourced services, that’s why I worked here on several projects:1. (Jan’14 - Aug’14) Popular free classifieds service “VivaStreet” – over 20 million visitors per month• Development of the core functionality (PHP, Ruby, MySQL, TorqueBox);• Support legacy code;• Issue resolution.2. (Aug’14 – Oct’14) Start-up “Bask” (https://www.gobask.com/) – recommendation system for ordering healthy and delicious food for individuals and companies.3. (Oct’14 – Jun’15) Start-up “Etiqap” (http://etiqap.com/) - metric system for golfers.4. (Jun’15 – Jun`17) Application for internal use of a global international corporation (under NDA).

Kyiv, Ua

Business or sector: company owns OLL.tv (http://oll.tv) - high load video on-demand distribution service (such as Netflix). Only legal content. First project of broadcasting Live events on HD in Ukraine. Over million unique users per month.Main responsibilities:- develop front-end using jquery, backbone, twitter bootstrap, HTML5, social auth and sharing, SEO optimisation compatibility. Example of task - intelligent personal system recommendation for users, based on their activities- back-end (administration zone, API working with devices: TV, iOS, Android, console commands and services) using Yii framework, redis, sphinx. Example: daemon to control broadcasting TV channel on the Elemental, check errors and trying to resolve problems- develop and optimisation service of gathering view statistics on Node.js- develop and support anti-piracy scanning system - bot network for checking video content on the video portals (such as vk.com, Yandex.Video, Youtube, torrent trackers) and compare with bought content of the company- consulting members of team and take a part of design architecture

Business or sector: at online adversiting companyMain responsibilities:- apply SEO optimization to client site (worked with more than 150 sites);- code refactoring for increase security and decrease loading time;- work on internal projects (time counting, auto buying SEO links system: working with API Sape, auto scanning position in Google and Yandex of client’s position and others)

JS, PHP-programming,TestsDatabase design