Illia
From Slovakia (UTC+2)
Illia – Node.js, Typescript, React
Illia is a Senior Full-stack Engineer with 15 years of experience, specializing in Node.js, React, Python, AWS, and modern TypeScript. He has led architecture and development for complex systems, demonstrating strong skills in backend, frontend, cloud infrastructure, and technical leadership. Illia is recognized for his structured communication, collaborative approach, and practical integration of GenAI-assisted workflows!
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Senior Full-Stack Engineer
Data-driven application for collecting reputation data about celebrities and brands online.
- Architected and led development from scratch of a web scraper service(Frontend + Backend) for search engines and social media: Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Telegram.
- Introduced AI-powered workflow automation (Desktop Scheduled Tasks + Claude Routines) for engineering reporting, enabling automatic generation and distribution of daily and sprint summaries in Slack, increasing operational transparency across teams.
Senior Software Engineer
All-in-one platform's purpose-built technology optimizes and automates every aspect of hospitality operations to save time, maximize revenue, and stay ahead of the curve. Project with microservice architecture(100+), DB of 1.5+ million active properties(hotels/apartments), load approx. 80+ million async business events & HTTP requests per day.
- Architected and implemented 3 microservices, enhancing modularity and scalability; improved efficient resource utilization and reduced infrastructure cost by 5%.
- Seamlessly integrated Booking.com and Agoda APIs, expanding platform functionality and attracting more customers, resulting in a 10% increase in monthly bookings within the first half year.
- Initiated and structured a comprehensive integration testing framework; reduced the number of bug tickets by 75% and enabled seamless dependency updates, eliminating the need for prolonged manual testing.
Head of Development
The IT services and consulting company that created software for three key areas - marketing, online gaming(gambling), and financial. It was a project with many microservices(15+) and integration of many external game APIs. Loads approx. 3,000-4,000 RPS and DB of 300k+ active users.
- Managed 3 cross-functional teams of 17 people (Developers, Testers, DevOps).
- Communicated with external partners about the integration of gaming APIs, and organized the successful integration of 5 different providers.
- Automated the CI/CD process, integration testing, and test coverage requirements.
- Transitioned from an outdated framework to a modern one, reducing development, testing, and delivery time of new features from one month to one week, boosting team efficiency by 4 times.
- Advanced to the Team Lead role by implementing innovative solutions that boosted monitoring, which allowed to achieve 99.99% of the project’s uptime.
- Hired and mentored 10+ new developers by providing weekly one-on-one coaching sessions.
Senior Software Engineer
Marketing platform helping franchises grow their online visibility in search and social media through a unique, data-driven approach. Over 80 franchise brands and 400+ marketing agencies are improving outcomes across more than 25,000 locations.
- Developed a set of microservices that converted videos into various formats and devices, which extended the platform's capabilities and attracted new customers.
- Integrated PayPal and Braintree payment API.