The Information Technology Center is one of the important companies in the local market, takes an active part in developing and supporting IT solutions for the Belarusian government public service.

During my time with the company, I developed public and local G2C solutions, wrote software and regulatory documentation, took part in consulting with users and customer-support. The poor culture of digitalization among governance customers leaded to the work with incomplete requirements. Requirements were gathering via user stories, use cases and user observation. So, I had to perform part of the Business-analyst’s work.

Started working as a technical employee and then was promoted to a position of a Full-Stack web-developer (MySQL, PHP, Perl, jQuery):

• Configured and maintained servers for development
• Refactored and added new services in legacy project minsk.gov.by (2nd place in category “State”), migrated from Perl to PHP
• Participated in coding Front-End on jQuery and vanilla JS
• Designed databases
• Converted data formats, parsed unstructured data
• Developed online tool-box for organizing the process of collecting requirements and coordinating work with an expert group
• Integrated DevTools to enhancing team productivity for product analysis and testing
• Developed new web apps and APIs (DB, Back-end)
  • online appointment booking according to customers’ needs: retail locations in the markets, the civil registry office, polyclinic of special medical examinations
  • catalog system of corporate contacts, designed for general and territorial subunits’ purposes
  • geo-information resources (tools: OSM, Leaflet), designed for the tasks of territorial subunits, business-portal
  • information resources and services: National Literary Prize, waiting list for housing, happy family faces
• Wrote technical docs for developers and guides for content-managers
• Made desktop apps on C# / .NET

«Electroservice and Co» is one of the most visited Belarusian online stores of home appliances and electronics. The company has more than 29 years history, more than 1000 employees and 33 store and supermarket at present.

Supported and developmed household appliances sales network “ELEKTROSILA” Internet resources.

• supported and developed new features for a custom-made PHP project
• created internal developer-tools for debugging on live production environment
• exchanged data between the client-side web-resource and internal commerce systems
• implemented a new design for mobile version

Diverse activity

Open Source:

• contribution to MODX core
• development of solutions for MODX
• support of MODX Tickets component (third party author)

Freelance development:

• adding the Sphinx search engine to the project
• work with existing undocumented projects in Bitrix, Wordpress, MODX
• integration of web resources with third-party APIs (payment systems, SMS, CRM)
• adding microdata markup
• …and more small tasks

Mastering tech skills on pet projects:

• Processes: TDD
• Frontend: Webpack, ExtJS, VueJS
• Backend: Golang
• Tools: Redis, Sphinx

Made the migration of existing website from MODX to Wordpress. Solved tasks:

• keeping URLs when migrating, redirecting from URLs with unsupported format
• writing script to automatically migrate content between BD tables from modx_site_content to wp_posts
• changing existing template to responsive
• integration of inner workings into Google Sheets API and Google Calendar

Studied some technologies and tools in digital area:

• HTML/CSS Web 2.0
• Adobe Flash animation
• Digital graphics using Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw
• Scripts modding on Sanny Builder (CLEO)
• Game developing on Game Maker/GML

My first Sinclair-based PC - ZX Spectrum

• started my coding way on BASIC
• studied algorithms
• had fun and played games