* Built up a global Engineering organization from 15 to over 220 people, delivering impact across all business functions, thus helping the company build a network of 11 fulfillment centers and reach a valuation of over 1 billion USD (unicorn).* Established the organizational structure and responsibilities of Software Engineers, IT Project Managers, Software testers, DevOps engineers, IT administrators and other roles.* Led all aspects of Technology: Engineering, QA, IT/sysadmins, Security.* Participated in the acquisition of SnowCommerce.com and merging the tech organizations.* Navigated the Security team towards acquiring SOC2 Type1 certification.* Built a mix of highly available AWS cloud and on-premise infrastructure.* Introduced Engineering KPI metrics to keep a strict check of software quality.* Implemented an alerting and incident management process.

* Delivered several customer facing projects (Design maker features, e-commerce integrations, etc).* In collaboration with Shopify organized a conference booth at Game Developer Conference in San Francisco.* Executed the implementation of Google GSuite across the organization.

* Delivered large-scale projects such as redesigning the "Galleries", "Top", "Forum", "Events", "Skins", "Games" and other sections of social network draugiem.lv.* Reworked the "Messages" section and migrated from MySQL to MongoDB.* Managed various 3rd party tech integration partnerships. * Unified backend infrastructure by leading the development of a single API platform, enabling both web and mobile frontends to share backend functions, improving efficiency, consistency, and maintainability across platforms.

Draugiem.lv is a social network in Latvia (similar to Facebook).As a developer I was working on multiple large-scale projects. During my time in the company, draugiem.lv was the most popular social network in Latvia (more popular than Facebook).

* Development of a web based platform which included business, social network, multimedia and other sections. * Work in a team of developers and a designer.* Planning milestones and work estimates.* Regular communication with company owner in English.* Skills used: PHP, MySQL, CSS, HTML, jQuery, GIT, Kohana framework.

1) Programming (PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, CSS, HTML, JavaScript,AJAX, jQuery, Smarty, ASP Classic, Flash, Actionscript).2) Project management. Scrum. 3) Participation in new customer acquisition activities and existing customer management.4) Development of Software design descriptions, Software requirement specifications and User manuals.5) Business languages: Latvian, Russian and English.