Stefan K.

Experience

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  International Initiatives for Cooperation

  Aug 2010 - Mar 2014

  Project Coordinator

  I started as a volunteer while I was still in my final year of high-school and after graduation I enjoyed being around the great people of the organisation so once I was offered a job - I took it immediately. I was coordinating and writing projects that were funded by institutions like the European Commission. I actively sought partners that would both benefit from and be beneficial to the company. In addition, I was taking part in organising events like training courses and networking events like conferences and partner meetings. I had the opportunity to travel a lot around Europe and work on international level on projects with different topics like entrepreneurship, conflict management, sustainable development and youth empowerment. I was also taking part in the reporting process of how funds received by the company for different projects were used and what were the results that were achieved from every project. Show less

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  Saville Assessment, a Willis Towers Watson Company

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2020

  Full Stack Engineer

  • Building a bespoke software solution to decouple 4 services and save 75% development time.• Completely rewriting the extremely outdated software to make it faster and be mobile-friendly using KendoUI.• Working with CosmosDB and CDN to improve the availability of the company's products.• Acting as the bridge between technical and non-technical stakeholders when planning projects.• Writing technical documentation and an API reference of the services.• Writing unit, acceptance and integration tests to improve software test coverage. Show less

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  ArtForge

  Jul 2019 - Jun 2020

  Technical Consultant

  Technical consultant for ArtForge - a game development company that is part of The Founder Institute, the Founder Institute Bonus Pool and is developing a multiplayer video game using Unreal Engine. My role is to establish the whole pipeline for the technical implementation of the product that is being developed. I have to select the software solutions and tools that fit the company's needs - choosing the type of multiplayer model for the game, creating the work process, selecting the best server solution, picking the development methodology, setting up the source control tools for both artists and programmers, setting up builds, releases, deployments, pull requests, programming guidelines and enforcing good practices on the whole software's development cycle. I also work on POCs and implementations when I get a chance. I have been learning about DevOps lately and I am putting that into good use by acting as the company's technical consultant. Show less

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  Wedou Assurances

  Oct 2020 - Jul 2022

  Senior Software Engineer

  • Leading the re-writing of the company's internal tool to achieve a major upgrade and scalability.• Working with React, JavaScript and Redux to make the client-facing applications more scalable, feel modern and accessible.• Working with Node.js on a RESTful API to serve the business logic of the companyand add external integrations with post, mail, client communication and insurance providers.

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  Nexo

  Jul 2022 - now

  Blockchain Software Engineer

  • Designing and developing scalable systems to work with blockchains like BTC, ETH and their derived chains. • Building critical payment solutions that handle transactions for the company's 7M+ users. • Adding in-house tools to save the company expenses on external integrations. • Working with AWS to apply CI/CD and security practices for deploying and scaling our services. • Adding telemetrics for logging, monitoring and reporting of microservices using Datadog and Grafana.• Working on scaling microservices by establishing event-driven asynchronous communication via Kafka.• Improving performance and reducing cost of storage access, as well as, increasing availability and scalability of services by setting up Redis clusters. Show less