Illia
From Slovakia (UTC+2)
Illia – Node.js, Typescript, React
Illia is a full-stack engineer working across Node.js, React, Python, and AWS who recently built a web scraping platform for search and social data from scratch. Earlier, on a hospitality platform with 100+ microservices and 1.5M+ active properties, he cut bug tickets by 75% and infrastructure cost by 5%.
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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.