Ruslan Sazonov

Experience

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  Postindustria

  Feb 2011 - Feb 2014

  PHP Developer

  As a PHP Developer, my key achievements at Postindustria are: - Participated in an early stage development and deploying to the production of the Lexalytics main site: https://www.lexalytics.com/ - Participated in an early stage development and deploying to the production of the Semantia main site:https://www.lexalytics.com/semantria/ - Implemented a number of custom plugins for a Drupal CMS.

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  Nika Entertainment

  Oct 2014 - Mar 2016

  PHP Developer

  Nika Entertainment is a company that creates fascinating game applications and related services. We develop cross-platform projects at the international level.Key achievements: - Took participation in a mobile game server development and accompanying tools, legacy code refactoring. - Did many DB schema and data optimizations. As an outcome - improved the game server's performance. - Developed Facebook API integrations: payments, notifications, user data, OpenGraph. - Provided post-production support for a game server and continuously added high load-oriented optimizations. - Did bug fixes and implemented new server features as the game evolved. - Developed a number of helper marketing tools. Show less

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  PromoRepublic

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2018

  Full Stack Developer

  PromoRepublic is a fast-growing SaaS company operating in the MarTech domain.It’s a leading social media marketing platform for marketing agencies, brands with a distributed workforce, and small businesses. With its intelligent products, companies can efficiently manage social media no matter the scale, distribute content in line with their brand guidelines, empower local partners to represent their brand, maintain a consistent brand identity, as well as control brand’s reputation across all locations.Key achievements: - Built a Post Ideas content search engine based on Elasticsearch (tags, full-text, and text-on-pic search) on top of the Laravel framework. - Built Application Business Events analytic system based on Elastic Stack. The system was used as an alternative to third-party analytic systems and reduced startup expenses on tools. - Implemented stock photos API service integrations: Pexels, Unsplash. - Implemented third-party API service integrations and marketplace apps: Shopify Partners app, Buffer, HubSpot, Weebly, Wix, Yahoo Commerce. - Implemented a Facebook Messenger bot as an additional leads generation channel. - Designed Social Monitoring product architecture and built the basic MVP. Show less

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  RocketRoute

  Aug 2018 - Jun 2021

  Senior PHP Developer

  RocketRoute is a leading aviation services company. Private and commercial pilots, airlines, business operators, as well as HEMS and SAR operators, use RocketRoute for flight planning, quick file, autoroute, fuel and ground handling requests.Key achievements: - Took an active participation in a new architecture design development for Autorouter software and underlying infrastructure. - Migrated the local development environment to the Docker environment. - Incorporated static code analysis tools to the development workflow: PHPCS, PHPStan. - Implemented a new navigational Data Importers microservice and extracted/migrated the old importer scripts from the monolithic app to a new microservice. - Documented the navigational Data Importers flow and CI/CD setup. - Incorporated the coding standards and Git Flow guidelines. - Took active participation in PHP7.3 migration plan development and actual implementation. - Built a new dedicated RESTful API service based on Laravel framework in the scope of the Autorouter extraction from the monolithic app (JWT auth guard, new object model, Swagger API interface, background jobs, logging, documentation, etc). - Implemented the actual moving of Autrouter’s algorithm to the new microservice application. Show less

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  Frontify

  Aug 2021 - Feb 2024

  Full Stack Developer

  Frontify AG operates as a software-as-a-service company. The Company designs and develops platforms for brand management for updating brand portal, media library, pattern library, and style guides. Frontify serves customers in Switzerland.Key achievements: - Worked closely with UI/UX designers and implemented a number of new responsive UIs with accessibility in mind according to the Figma mockups (React.js, Vitest, Cypress, Tailwind CSS). - Renowned the outdated UIs according to the current standards and FE architecture based on React.js. - Refactored some parts of the legacy codebase: migrated the vanilla Javascript code to TypeScript, migrated the outdated PHP code and aligned it with the most recent architecture standards. - Contributed to the platform’s Marketplace SDK. - Implemented new features on the Back-End side. Mostly RESTful and GraphQL APIs, increased the test coverage for codebase (PHP8, Symfony 5, PHPUnit, TDD). - Troubleshoot the client’s Digital Print & Templates product-related problems. - Did a ton of code reviews both inside-team and cross-team. Show less

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  Awesomic

  May 2024 - now

  Full Stack Engineer