Alex S.

Senior Web Architect, Drupal Full Stack Developer, Team Lead

Web application developer with enterprise experience. Senior Web Architect, Developer, Tech Lead, DevOps Engineer. 20 years of software development experience. Started from C++ (the one with the blue background and white letters, if you know what I mean). Created a bunch of Windows desktop apps using Visual C++ and Borland C++. Switched to web. Was working as a software developer in small projects, constantly evolving and learning something new. In the past 7 years was working with the enterprise-level projects, mostly web-based and including Drupal CMS usage, but not limited to it. Areas of expertise: • Senior Web Architect, an expert-level software developer who communicates with businesses and clients to design and execute solutions with a team of software engineers, making executive software design decisions. Acting as a communicator, developer and partially as a designer. Strong architecture skills with the ability to produce comprehensive user stories and technical specification documentation • Developer with PHP OOP development background and strong Web stack skills, understanding how each piece of the whole pie works, how to be sure the data is secure and how to speed up the services, either backend or frontend side; • Tech lead, managing and working with distributed project teams, estimating tasks, writing user stories and performing reviews; • DevOps Engineer, setting up development, test and production environments based on the requirements, using the most recent technologies and metodologies, Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible, CI/CD, Amazon (AWS), git/github/gitlab, DigitalOcean, Acquia, Pantheon workflow. Personal: intelligence, initiative, strong problem solving abilities, the ability to thrive under pressure.