Vlad Burlak Email & Phone Number

Wiesbaden, He, De

San Francisco Bay Area

Earnest is a technology-enabled fintech lender that offers student loan refinancing and private student loans.As a Growth Full Stack Software Development Engineer I am responsible for full service of company marketing WordPress website under high incoming traffic pressure:- Working closely with the Content and Marketing team on internal dashboard services and implementing new features (PHP, JS)- Internal Page Builder development and optimizations. Added a lot of front-end and dashboard components for managing content on the Landing Pages (W3C HTML, a11y optimizations, SASS, ES6)- Partner Services integrations (JSON, PHP, JS)- Working closely with the Product, Marketing, and Analytics teams to release a lot of A/B split test pages (Optimizely), set up metrics, and add paid marketing pages.- Working closely with the Analytics team setting up metrics (Segment, Amplitude)- Working closely with SEO experts to improve search engines optimization and page scores. Investigating possible issues in the current data structure and resolving them. Successfully launched AMP, supported by AMP A/B tests before the launch.- Working on ERDs for upcoming projects.- Lead vision and development on new projects under Marketing site- Working closely with the QA team on improving their everyday experience, updating git-flow.- Misc: everyday dev-ops routine, databases managements, and migrations

Austin, Texas Area

Student Loan Hero is a fintech company that provides various tools to repay student loans, saving time and money.As a Full Stack Software Development Engineer I was responsible for marketing WordPress lead generation website and a few client-side React applications that helped promote our partner's services and earn money for the company.- Eliminated Legacy PHP codebase(PSR-2, added CI)- Rebuilt front-end architecture with modern webpack pipeline, increased assets compilation, and delivery a few times.- Migrated to ES5, replaced 3rd party jQuery plugins with custom vanilla JS solutions.- Worked closely with the Design team and made step-by-step marketing website redesign during high SERP traffic(W3C HTML, a11y optimizations, SASS, ES5).- Worked with the Product, Marketing, Analytics teams to release a lot of A/B split tests(VWO), set up metrics, and add paid marketing pages. Pages conversion was improved during successful tests.- Lead vision, architecture, and development of internal JSON API service integrated with 5 React Apps. The Legal team resolved a serious bottleneck in data used for legal purposes for our clients.- Lead vision and development of internal WP plugins, Improved the experience of the Content team with WordPress Dashboard for about 20 team members (additional JSON API, PHP, JS, Backbone.js)- Launched financial Student Loan Calculators (React), Marketplace (React, JSON API, server-side rendering, indexing in search engines) coop w Product, Analytics- Improved SEO scores and page speed based on regular audits and reviews: critical CSS, AMP, Google News integration- Everyday dev-ops routine, databases managements, and migrations- Prepared engineering documentations and interviewed new engineers- Worked closely with a remote Transition Engineering team from Lending tree to transfer all the services after the company was acquired in July 2018

Krasnodar Territory, Russian Federation

- Engineering team management- Lead vision, writing PRDs, ERDs for upcoming projects- Commercial WordPress ThemeForest themes and CodeCanyon plugins development- Full stack WordPress projects development:- PHP, PSR-2, Composer, Laravel, Redux Framework, Options Tree, CMB2, - Managed front-end architecture: Gulp, SCSS, webpack pipeline- Capistrano, Vagrant, Ansible, - Nginx (with FastCGI micro-caching), MariaDB, SSL support, SMTP, MailHogMemcached, Fail2ban- Bootstrap 3 and 4, Zurb Foundation, Tailwind, SCSS/SASS,- Lead vision and development of various JSON APIs and mobile applications backends.

Krasnodar Territory, Russian Federation

Working as a Full Stack Engineer, I was responsible for developing projects for such brands as:- Kia Motors- Amstel- 1M Bank- Design and prototyping projects infrastructure.- Developing new projects and maintaining existing projects on WordPress, MODX revolution, Drupal- Front-end development: JS (Vanilla JS and frameworks), HTML, CSS (less)- Development of high-load web projects based on maps API services and providers such as Google, Yandex, OSM (Leaflet Cloudmade), 2GIS- Development and support of B2C promotional websites,- Prototyping and developing projects technical specifications- DevOps

Krasnodar Territory, Russian Federation

Client web-sites development using HTML/CSS/JSWordPress Development.