Janis 👾 Bizkovskis

Experience

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  Prakse.lv

  Oct 2011 - Mar 2014

  Software Engineer

  Prakse.lv is a internet company based in Latvia, which provides career and education insights for students.Main tasks while working at Prakse.lv were: - Completely refactor MySQL database to improve storage and speed; - Rework the project functionality from Symphony 1.x to Phalcon PHP 1.x, later upgrade to 2.x; - Develop custom solutions for newsletter and transactional e-mails.Technologies I worked with: MySQL, PhalconPHP framework 1.x and 2.x, jQuery, SASS, Susy, Grunt, GitLab, Git, PhantomJS, Highcharts, Facebook API, LinkedIn API, SAML, Swift Mailer. Show less

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  PractiCAN.com

  Mar 2014 - May 2016

  Senior Software Engineer / CTO / currently tech advisor

  PractiCan.com is a company, which offers job and internship listings for students and career pages for educational institutions.At PractiCan.com I was a full-stack senior developer, as well, I was developing this project from scratch. Main tasks while working at PractiCan.com were: - Design and develop a individual career page template for multiple universities by the logic Facebook pages have. E.g. ekarjera.rtu.lv, karjera.rsu.lv, ekarjera.mruni.eu; - Developing dynamic domain assigning for career pages and SSL certificate issuing by Let's Encrypt (https://letsencrypt.org/); - Developing custom form system; - Front-end development; - Image processing with imagick and video processing with ffmpeg. - Handling DevOps related processes using Telia services, e.g. server set-up, network configuration, back-up management e.t.c.Technologies I worked with: PHP 5.6 and 7.0, Phalcon PHP framework 3.x, MySQL 5.7, LetsEncrypt, jQuery, SASS, Susy, Grunt, GitLab, Git, PhantomJS, Highcharts API, Facebook API, LinkedIn API, SAML, Swift Mailer, Imagick, ffmpeg. Show less

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  Carspring

  May 2016 - Dec 2016

  Software Engineer

  Carspring is a start-up backed by the Berlin-based incubator Rocket Internet. It's main business area is selling used cars completely online in the United Kingdom.Unfortunately due to financial problems in the company, IT department was relieved from their duties.In this company I was a full time back-end developer. Main tasks while working at Carspring were: - Developing payment system management for OPS; - Front-end asset handling to improve page load time and decrease overhead on mobile devices; - Developing business appraisal system; - Refactoring and implementing existing APIs, like Mailchimp(from scratch), Close.io.- Discussions with the operational team to understand business process and align with the back-end system (e.g. state-machine, payment processes, etc.)Technologies I worked with: PHP 5.6, PhalconPHP 1.3.4 framework, Git, Grunt, Nginx, JQuery, SASS, PostgreSQL 9.5. Show less

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  CATERWINGS Germany GmbH

  Jan 2017 - Oct 2017

  Software Engineer

  CATERWINGS is one of the leading online marketplace for catering services, facilitating and simplifying the food ordering process for corporate customers. CATERWINGS is a start-up backed by the Berlin-based incubator Rocket Internet.In this company I was a full time back-end developer. Main tasks while working at CATERWINGS were:- Setting up a server network using AWS(EC2, RDS, Networking), writing project deploy scripts;- Desing a new DB structure for OPS system;- Developing OPS system;- Developing new frontend system.Technologies I worked with: PHP 7.1, Symfony 3.2 framework, PhalconPHP 3.2 framework, Git, Nginx, jQuery, SASS, PostgreSQL 9.5., MySQL 5.6, NodeJS Show less

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  Lesara

  Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

  Lead Software Engineer

  Lesara is an online store for trendy fashion and lifestyle products at unbeatable prices. Through direct cooperation with manufacturers and suppliers, Lesara secure low prices on the latest brand quality products. Lesara are able to make exclusive fashion and lifestyle trends affordable and available to everyone. Lesara customers can sit back and let us inspire them day in day out. Lesara scout out the hottest styles and surprise our customers with new products, so that they leave having had an unforgettable shopping experience.Unfortunately due to financial problems in the company, it got shut down.In this company I was a full time senior back-end developer/tech lead. Main tasks while working at Lesara were:- Implement Agile workflow in the team. Develop proper workflow schema in Jira.- Develop and design a custom solution for marketing regarding creating landing pages, which doesn't involve any coding skills (typical CMS usually is in HTML or some other markdown, we did it in two parts: developer part - designing element and marketing/content part - filling in the data).- Design and develop a new REST API for different kind of applications - Android/iOS mobile apps, Marketing system e.t.c.- Handle all different kind of business & marketing related tasks, e.g. custom functionality campaigns.Technologies I worked with: PHP 5.x and 7.x, Symfony 3.x and 4.x, Git, Nginx, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch(Project data storage, Kibana, Cerebro), AWS Services (S3, SQS), Docker(Docker compose), Magento 1.x(Zend framework 1), Capistrano, SupervisorD, Behat(BDD), PhpUnit(TDD)Technologies I touched (didn't work on daily basis): Capistrano, Go Lang Show less

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  Mytheresa.com

  Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

  Senior Software Engineer

  Mytheresa is an e-commerce company. Mytheresa is the most-trusted source for finding the finest selection of luxurious womenswear and menswear. Mytheresa is one of leaders of selling luxurious products online.In this company I was a full time senior back-end enginner. Main tasks while working at Mytheresa were: - Work on already started project on e-commerce platform to move away from legacy Magento platform, implement missing business logic functionallity, solve challanges made by legacy code and unmaintainable business logic. - Working on adding unit and integration tests for existing business logic and additional from product. - Work on setting up production-ready docker images, which ar deployed on Kubernetes (k8s) and used on engineers local environments. Replacing Vagrant implementation with Docker. - Work on data importing application written in Golang, which is exporting data from Magento and importing it in new e-commerce platform. - Setting up dashboards with information from nginx + php-fpm, php logging on DatadogTechnologies I worked with: Go Lang, Kubernetes (k8s), Argo CI/CD, PHP 7.x, Git, Nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL, RabbitMQ, Elasticsearch(Project data storage), Docker(Docker compose), Magento 1.x(Zend framework 1), Codeception, Redis, Jenkins, Drone CI Show less

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  Nord Security

  Oct 2021 - now

  Nord Security is one of market leaders in cybersecurity space providing services like VPN(NordVPN), Password manager(NordPass) and encrypted file storage(NordLocker). It also offers it services to B2B, like NordLayer.In this company I am full time senior back-end engineer. Working on e-commerce parts (specfically API built for pricing), main tasks while working were:- Participate in design phase of application, as with technical solution design & actual development- As application was a new project - set up all the necessary services for achieving app transparency & observability (metrics and alerting)- Implement tracing- Do all necessary changes for application deployment to k8sTechnologies I worked with: Golang, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, RabbitMQ, Grafana, InfluxDB, GraphQL, ArgoCD(in combination of GitOps & k8s), Docker, Gitlab. Show less

  • Engineering Manager

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Oct 2021 - Sept 2022