Alex Ilin

Experience

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  Overmind

  Dec 1996 - Feb 2005

  Software Engineer

  -Developed software for Ukrainian stock market(Delphi and Java): Ukrainian registrars business automation projects. Searching for new technologies to increase development productivity and maintenance quality.-Developed the Swing Look-n-feel for Lightsocket (California company)-Dsigned the Financial Monitoring app(according to FATF requirements adopted in UA laws). Based on SWT(Eclipse).-Created Web sites using JSP and J2EE.-Developed Delphi components.

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  Certive/Cloud9 Analytics

  Feb 2005 - Dec 2008

  Software Engineer. Team leader and Architect

  -Developed TDS(MS SQL Server) protocol Java implementation for the proprietary company BI server.-Developed from scratch ODBC driver (Using C language).-Created ODBC driver testing suite(C++).-Improved JDBC driver(Java).-Designed and implemented Query Builder Excel Add-In (C#).

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  Lucky Release Ltd

  Mar 2008 - Apr 2013

  -Developed open-source engine DocFlower(https://sourceforge.net/projects/docflower/) to simplify rich clients based on Eclipse/RCP platform and defined by XML/XSD/XSL.-Developed projects for Ukrainian custodians. Eclipse/RCP client works over https with JDO/OSGi back-end which is intensively using XML/XSL/XML Schema. -Developed Android projects with JSF/JDO backend using JSON RESTful services. Spring Security and PrimeFaces were involved.

  • Software Engineer. Team leader and Architect

    Mar 2008 - Apr 2013

  • Software Engineer, Software Developer

    Mar 2008 - Apr 2013
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  Self-Employed

  Apr 2013 - Dec 2018

  Software Engineer

  -Developed Java backends based on JSF/DataNucleus/Spring Security/Primefaces/RESTful.-Developed Android apps (SQLite, Background Services, Media Player, Barcode, Camera, Google Maps, Espresso UI testing etc).-To do cross-platform(web, Android, iOS) push messaging I have used Google Firebase Cloud Messaging.-Developed iOS Swift apps with a lot of input forms, barcode support, CoreData, JSON auto de/serialization based on CoreData, Zebra and Star printer integration, Zebra LBL rendering preview etc.-Developed Windows C# app.-Rollout PostgreSQL cluster to manage hot backups and offload heavy queries. -Maintaining development infrastructure. Git repository, bugzilla, Linux and Windows servers, Apache, Jetty.-Designed and implemented High Availability feature.-Researching done for system improvements and resolving the system scalability issues. E.g., PostgreSQL multi-master feature(BDR), no-sql solutions.-Added support for Zebra and Star mobile printers used to print from Android and iOS devices. Including a rendering Zebra LBL preview into pdf or image.-Get started migration of backends toward JAMStack(Gatsby/ReactJS). Due to some limitations of JSF. Show less

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  EPAM Systems

  Jan 2019 - now

  OpenAPIKafkaKubernetesCloud transformationAngularization and bootificationTech leadMentoring - Spring Cloud- Angular- Pivotal Cloud Foundry- Veracode- ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana)- Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansimble- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)- NetApp- Jenkins- Agile, XP (pair programming etc) Spring BootPivotal Cloud FoundryGCPVeracodeJenkins

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Jul 2021 - now

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Nov 2019 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Jan 2019 - Nov 2019