Nick Taranov

Experience

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  Different companies

  Sept 2004 - Jan 2010

  Developer & Team Lead

  Working in different positions. Mostly C#/.NET software development with some Delphi, JS, and PHP.

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  Profindustry-Center

  Feb 2010 - May 2011

  Lead Developer

  Developing corporate intranet & internet sites.

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  Refactor-IKS

  Jun 2011 - Nov 2013

  Department Director & Team Lead | CTO Equivalent

  🦸‍♂️ Dev head in a Microsoft subcontractor.✔ Led around 20 projects to completion, including ones used by hundreds of thousands of users;✔ Managed team of 10, both in-house and remote;✔ Handled 3-7 projects simultaneously.Technology responsibilities:- Technical leadership;- Design and development of skeletal solutions' parts;- General web development.Management: - Setting up dev process;- Managing team competencies and development;- Resource management (hiring etc);- Capacity planning;- Presales, including preparing estimates for dozens of projects; - Owning financials. Show less

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  Kind Robots

  Nov 2013 - Nov 2019

  Software Company Co-Founder | CEO | CTO

  Custom software development - intranet and internet sites. ✔ Full-cycle software development including producing requirements✔ Mobilizing teams on a per-project basis (e.g. designers, analysts, testers)✔ ~20 clients✔ ~30 projects

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  Luxoft

  May 2014 - Nov 2019

  Software Development Trainer (part-time)

  Upskilling a global software outsourcer personell in software development & DevOps. The list of courses I conducted and/or authored:💻 .NET- ASP.NET MVC 5 basics (author)- Dependency Management in .NET- Asynchronous Future in .NET Framework- Design by Contract in .NET- C# Tips and Tricks💻 JavaScript and Web Development- JavaScript Development- EcmaScript 2015 - React.js development (more than 1000 students overall)- Web Application Testing- OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities💻 Team work & DevOps- Team work with Git (author)- Continuous integration and DevOps for Developers (author)- Introduction to git- DevOps basics Show less

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  Upwork

  Dec 2014 - now

  Upwork Top Rated | Fractional CTO | Software Developer (part-time)

  Doing Fractional CTO and Developer projects on Upwork✔ 15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews✔ 100% job success with 23 jobs✔ Doing team management, software audits, coding✔ Finding right candidates, hiring🍁 Upwork Canada Group Lead

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  Qwestion

  Dec 2015 - Sept 2016

  Fractional CTO & Crisis Manager

  Making a Quora-like platform go online as a tech leader - done.The client had a problem with the tech team not willing to release. - Set up development & management processes, including work planning, tracking and status meetings;- Managed backlog to make the release possible;- Hired for the necessary roles;- Managed a global team of 5;- Performed high-demanding tasks like internationalizing the entire application in 2 days.

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  YouDraft

  Jul 2016 - Aug 2017

  Software Development Consultant | Fractional CTO

  Doing regular audits and consulting. It's not a secret that overseas teams often bill 3x-10x of what they actually do. I did- regular comprehensive development audits with reports;- advising on how to structure work; - consulting on setting up the development management and infrastructure to protect the intellectual property and the product;- making an overseas team actually do what they bill for; - providing an independent code quality and real effort spent perspective.

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  Red Pill Solutions

  Mar 2020 - now

  Fractional CTO & Software Development Consultant

  👨‍💻 A Fractional CTO who codes. I both organize reliable cost-efficient software development and solve technical problems saving immense amounts of time & money. As I'm also good with infrastructure, I'm capable of replacing 4 high-paid tech roles ad hoc: Manager/Product Owner, Team Lead, Dev, and DevOps/Infra Engineer.I specialize in these technologies:✔️ .NET / MS Stack;✔️ JavaScript / React.js;✔️ Cloud / DevOps / Azure / Google Cloud Platform.But really... having 20 years of development under my belt, I used it all: Python, Ruby, PHP, PowerShell, C++, etc, and if I didn't I might be able to just start using it in a day. If anything above looks relevant, you can borrow my expertise to make a difference on your project.📌 My direct & indirect clients include dozens of companies, including 2 FAAMG names and a three-letter company starting with "I". https://www.redpill.solutions Show less

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  AdaptMS

  Nov 2020 - Mar 2022

  Technical Lead | .NET & Azure Architect

  Helped migrate a Nancy Framework-based ASP.NET Gift Card application to a new platform.- Represented the "business" side in a "business divorce";- Maintained good working relationship with the leaving "tech" side;- Hands-on: set up traffic mirroring and DB reconciliation to make sure that the new platform operates correctly;- Hands-on: performed Azure cloud migration of the entire product;- Communicated with all the team and other involved parties, coached other devs, and aligned the stakeholders. Show less

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  Software Development Knowledge Inc.

  Mar 2022 - now

  Consultant & Trainer

  💡 Providing custom training on Web Development, DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure, and GCP. I teach teamwork-related things like Git and DevOps as well as Web Development, mostly JavaScript, React.js, and Node, conducting courses both on-premises and online. Apart from this, I conduct Microsoft official courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), specifically on Azure and software development related (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-220, AZ-303, AZ-304, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500, AI-900, AI-100, 10975, 20480, 20486, 20483). I also teach classes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and GitHub official courses.✔ MCT (10 years), ✔ GCP Authorized Trainer (one of about 600 in the World),✔ GitHub Accredited Trainer (one of a few hundred in the World and one of the first in the program).https://www.sdk.services/ Show less

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  Telagent

  Feb 2024 - now

  Advisory Board Member

  Helping the Gen AI startup with technology