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Shanghai, China

Shanghai, China

Being hired as the CTO of the startup, my role is actually more like a combination of hands-on technical manager and architect.* Improve core code of existing projects written in PHP (Laravel), Python (Flask), Java (Spring Boot, a few bug-fixing) and Javascript (Vue for browser and Uniapp for WeChat mini-program), structure and implement new projects in Laravel and Vue (Ant design), developed a graph visualization engine based on G6 library. Designed the architecture of the company’s Saas e-commerce product.* Setup Kubernetes clusters for development, staging and production use on Tencent Cloud TKE, setup Harbor, Chartmuseum, Gitlab, Sentry (and relay), Prometheus and Grafana in Kubernetes.* Containerized all the running projects of the company, wrote docker files and helm charts, setup CI and CD.* Make guidelines for development, including code standards, testing, and coverage report, API documentation.* Make recruitment process and guideline for technical department, help HR do resume screening. Write probation plans for newcomers. Sort out career paths, KPIs and OKRs for the technical team.* Provide leadership to an on-site team and a remote team, eight engineers in total. Participate in decision-making.

Shanghai City, China

* Develop the new version of our product (an SNS-eCommerce dating platform marketing in Europe) in Symfony 4.* Build most of the foundation, and bundles, like queue (based on redis) with monitoring dashboard, file storage (supports local, cloud, webdav, etc), oauth2-server, business intelligence and statistics (logstash and elasticsearch), faceted searching (solr), and of course mysql and mongodb* Design and develop API for frontend. Maintain API documents in OpenAPI Specification* Write admin panel in Vuejs* Train junior and normal PHP developers* Set up frontend framework with webpack and ReactJS for frontend developers (but focus on backend later)* Set up lab (dev) environment, e.g. gitlab githooks (lua script with openresty), gitlab ci runner, multi-branches test environment, vagrant dev-kit, and get the Phusion Passenger works on staging server for managing nodejs processes* Write Golang cli application for data migration.* Write Ansible recipes for IT automating.* Setup APM server to monitor application performance and errors.* Help system admins get the application running in dockers and deploy to kubernetes cluster* Participate in product meetings, make technical decisions* Maintain current website which was written in Symfony1, fix bugs and implement new features

* Develop iBoo.tv (UGC/PGC video deliver platform) in Phalcon* Develop statistics system, editor tools, and wechat public account management platform in Laravel (RESTful API) and AngularJS (Frontend), php-rescue (job queue), nodejs/socket.io (real-time notifications)* Standardize development environment and work-flow by using Vagrant, Git-Flow* Standardize testing (unit tests, functional tests, acceptance tests) by using Codeception, and Jenkins for CI

Shanghai City, China

* Work closely with other teams in UK, US and RU, develop and maintain the new content delivery platform of the company, based on Drupal7 (Frontend), Symfony2 (API Client in drupal, and the standalone API Server which queries Apache Solr and responses to the api client).* Work on a web document viewer based on Backbone.js* Some other small internal tools for editors and developers* Git (Github, for code version control), Jira (Scrum, bug tracker, project management), Jenkins (CI)

Shanghai City, China

1. Charge of technology research, project development: Develop and improve our own PHP MVC Framework SCAP, Study and practice new technologies of the frontend and backend, focus on IT news, follow-up IT technology trends, presided over the internal sharing and training sessions; assess the cost of project development and technical difficulties, make the development plan and development cycle, design data structures and modular architecture and the main logic of the system, segment development tasks and assign tasks to developers, code for complex modules, functions, front-end interactive design and development, enhance the user experience, and part of the art work.2. Negotiate with clients, organize requirement: Discuss with clients for complex projects, Site visits to figure out the real workflow offline, help clients sort out and clear the requirement, guide customers to coordinate the use of different departments working online adapter and complex functions. 3. Participation in the company's operational management, decision-making, rulemaking: Directors' meetings, feasible proposals and implementation details of the company's operations, management mode, participation in the decision-making of the company's pricing strategy and technology roadmap, participate in the formulation of hr and financial system, develop time and attendance system and work log system and oversee the employees to use it.

Shanghai City, China

* Develop and improve Yiban (an SNS community for Chinese college students dominated by Chinese ministry of education)* Side-projects of the company, e.g. work-study and library sharing system for Shanghai Jiaotong University* Make coding standards for the team, norms using of SVN, maintain development documentations

Shanghai City, China

* Internal OA system development* IT operation and maintenance system (ITIL, ISO20000) design and development based on own PHP MVC Framework, including incident management, problem management, change management, release management, asset management, SLA configurations, service desk, and in-mail.* Develop an assets vector topology interacting component with SVG and HTML5* Other company's PHP projects