Duties

• Perform technical analysis of business requirements and existing application functionality.
• Conduct business situation analysis as a basis for building a solution architecture.
• Take responsibility for the development of new functionality and optimization of existing functionality.
• Identify and resolve issues with developed features.
• Mentor other team members and encourage the improvement of their professional performance.
• Consult in product development planning processes and creating a schedule of milestones.
• Participate in discussions and provide recommendations for the selection of appropriate technologies and resources to ensure the fulfillment of business needs in accordance with company goals and vision.
• Perform code reviews and application deliveries.
• Fill in the blanks in documentation for existing functionalilty and create new documentation for newly developed functionality.

Duties

Web Team Lead

• Lead Web department - take responsibility for developed products.
• Develop & maintain web products.
• Manage & improve workflow process for swift & timely delivery.
• Sprint planning.
• Ensure stable, durable team output.
• Perform code reviews.
• Estimate & decompose given features.
• Consult product owners on possibly best solution/implementation in context of required development time & difficulty.
• Create clean, descriptive and elaborate task descriptions for less questions/misunderstandings during multi-department development.
• Dynamically deciding on bug urgency and possibilities to fix them ASAP in scope of active sprint.
• Develop job interview strategy & perform job interviews.
• Mentoring & nurturing of team members.

Software Engineer

• Developing and maintaining front-end for Top 10 social network platforms in the world - Ask.fm (Ruby on Rails, HTML, SCSS, Javascript).
• Front-end & back-end development of supporting sites - various content moderation apps (Ruby on Rails, HTML, SCSS, Javascript, Redis) and multi language information sites (PHP/Wordpress, SCSS, node.js).

Duties

• Full stack web development with Ruby on Rails, Javascript and more.
• Customer requirements analysis and creation of system architecture.
• Unit test developement and continuous integration maintenance in the projects.
• Ruby on Rails framework integration with other systems.
• Documentation and consulting regarding developed projects.

Duties

• Full stack web-based development on Leaf (Cube developed PHP/MySQL/Javascript CMS).
• Creation of web applications for social networks (Facebook, Draugiem.lv).
• Managing project cost estimations based on technical requirements and wireframes/designs.
• Consulting on web development and hosting issues.
• Mailchimp and Mailigen account managing.
• Google Analytics account managing.

Duties

• Full stack web-based development with PHP/MySQL/Javascript.
• Website development using Wordpress, XOOPS, Drupal.
• Managing project cost estimations based on technical requirements and wireframes/designs.
• Project management - meetings with clients, contract negotiations.
• Consulting on web development and hosting issues.
• Creating product documentation.
• Hosting account administration.
• Google Analytics account managing.
• Content administration.

Duties

Programmer
Maintenance of developed software which summarizes, analyzes & verifies cash register data as well as generates automatic financial reports.

• Development of cash register data summary in Excel (using Visual Basic for Applications).
• Additional programming and support of developed code.

Information manager
Accounting in charge of cash register data, consulting and problem solution, financial reports and statistics.

• Cash register data maintenance and monitoring.
• Cash register issue handling.
• Sales information analyzing and verifying according to law.
• Financial data input into accounting system.
• Cash register data maintenance.
• Financial inspection on location.

Project Description

One of the most popular social networks in the world. Web front-end is running on Ruby on Rails, which communicates to Java middleware via REST API.

Features

• Ability to maintain your profile, ask and answer questions anonymously or publicly and receive "likes" from other users.
• Customizable color theme, emoodji, avatar.
• Ability to "follow" & "star" various users and receive notification about their activity.
• Earn coins for asking/answering questions, getting rewards for answers.

Accomplishments

• Iteratively refactor HTML/CSS to employ utility classes approach, which resulted in decrease of CSS footprint more than 50%.
• Refactoring HTML layout to embrace more modern solutions (grid, flexbox) to reduce code size and duplication (some content parts were being rendered twice to satisfy mobile/desktop resolution layout differences).
• Analyze, develop strategy and implement changes based on Google PageSpeed Insights, resulting in rapid score increase from ~35 to ~60.
• Creating a means of organizing A/B experiments for conversion experiments to find the best working UI.
• Developing answer cards feature - ability to set custom backgrounds for answers and dynamically changing text font-size based on length.
• Developing brand new feature "Photo polls" which enables users to upload two images and start a poll, where users can vote on either of the two images.
• Encouraging to involve in activities by creating null states for newly registered users.
• Implementing browser pushes via PushWoosh integration.
• Upgrade & refactor error messages for signup, login, password recovery so that they contain more meaningful explanation and increase registration rate.
• Feed improvements - shortening rich media content answers into previews by parsing HTML content and making sure user can see more answers.
• Improve mechanism for managing regular and seasonal emoodjis on user profile.
• Redesign & improve user profile page by distinguishing profile fields and adding profile gallery.
• Introduce "Discovery feed" (most popular content in current user's language & geography) and make it a default page for defined segment of users.
• Active participation in migrating to new data center.
• Maintenance – bugfixes for wide range of devices, operating systems and browsers, refactorings.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• SCSS
• Javascript
• jQuery

Project Description

Ruby on Rails apps that is used by content moderators to monitor inappropriate user content.

Features

• Search for users and their content to validate "red flags" given by automatic vocabulary checker or user reports.
• User administration, suspension, banning.
• Promoted answer & daily question administration.

Accomplishments

• Upgrading both Ruby & Rails versions, upgrading whole codebase & replacing unsupported sharding gem with new solution.
• Added support for "Photo polls" entity - ability to view, search & destroy.
• "Market offers" admin section - ability to add 3 types of offers (direct URL with UTM markers, one common promo code, list of unique individual promo codes).
• Performance upgrade for media lookup - search for user content based on image url attached to it.
• Active participation in migrating to new data center.
• Maintenance – bugfixes & refactorings.
• AWS CDN implementation.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• SCSS
• Javascript
• jQuery
• MySQL
• Redis
• Elasticsearch

Project Description

Customizable Ruby on Rails application snippet, which is driven by Javascript - it could be included in any internal application to get access to tools as well as internal search and latest Tibbr notifications. It takes form of a navigation bar with dropdown submenus.

Features

• Ability to select favorite tools and toolsets (based on employee role).
• Customizable color scheme and position (fixed to top vs floating).

Accomplishments

• Implementation of Amazon mega menu with ability to activate on click.
• Preference for user to select menu activation method – click or hover.
• Responsive single page application layout for non-desktop devices made with Bootstrap and jQuery, as well as CSS3 transitions between slides.
• Display user instruction and support links based on host.
• jQuery Alphascroll plugin implementation for easier navigation in tool list.
• Ability to ask question from support tab that will be posted on Tibbr as a post with option to set multiple subjects.
• Unit test suite in RSpec & major code refactoring.
• Search upgrade so that it provides suggestions based on typed query.
• Maintenance – bugfixes, consultation regarding usage.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• LESS
• Bootstrap
• Javascript
• CoffeeScript
• BackboneJS
• jQuery
• MySQL
• RSpec

Project Description

Tieto intranet homepage with most important information for employee consisting of mutliple service endpoints such as latest news, service alerts, Twitter feed, opened tasks, Tibbr (internal social network) My Wall etc. It also acts as a Tibbr's front page.

Accomplishments

• "Subject plugin" – ability to insert post list from specified Tibbr subject in any internal web-page via Javascript include. Ability to like and reply to posts and comments.
• Development of multiple widgets - "Twitter feed", "Perspectives blog", "Open Jobs" carousel and others.
• Introduced ability for browser to "remember" widget state (collapsed or expanded).
• Overhaul of admin panel to use the same bootstrap version as frontend.
• Visual facelift in order to support retina screens.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• SASS
• Bootstrap
• Javascript
• CoffeeScript
• AngularJS
• MySQL
• RSpec

Project Description

Glossary for Tieto internal terms and abbreviations made in a single page application fashion, where user can search, edit and propose widely used terms inside Tieto workspace, connect related terms or add translations, arrange terms in a tree-like hierarchy.

Accomplishments

• Substantial layout and functional changes via BackboneJS.
• Multiple visual fixes before releasing project to production.
• Changed term XML export according to API requirements in order to synchronize with another database.
• Maintenance – bugfixes, consultation regarding usage as well as occasional improvements.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• SASS
• Bootstrap
• Javascript
• BackboneJS
• CoffeeScript
• jQuery
• SolR
• Postgres
• RSpec

Project Description

Internal tool for managing customer satisfaction or any other surveys.

Features

• Ability to create questionnaires with different question types - single choice, multi choice, text.
• Manage user access on department basis.
• Export results to Excel

Accomplishments

• Maintenance – bugfixes, consultation regarding usage and improvement and occasional development work.
• Upgrade Excel export feature - use "axlsx" gem for generation.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• SASS
• Javascript
• CoffeeScript
• jQuery
• Oracle
• RSpec

Project Description

CRM Data is powerful Ruby on Rails web application on top of Oracle eBS, and provides much better user experience comparing to Oracle eBS (TERP) CRM and Sales modules. It has a lot of custom features comparing to eBS standard modules, although these systems are tightly tailored – CRM Data still uses a lot of standard setup and background processes of eBS.

CRM Data is used to:

• Review and request updates to your customer data.
• Manage your customer contact information.
• Enter and maintain sales signals & opportunity data with sophisticated workflow.
• Create showcases of won opportunities.
• Manage meetings, tasks and marketing events, synchronize with MS Outlook.
• Manage customer experience survey data.
• Perform role and access administration.

Accomplishments

• Architecting CRM Data sales signal integration with Marketo platform - consulting on CRM Data sales signal model structure, validations, mapping corresponding fields from Marketo to CRM Data, developing Marketo data ouput in CRM Data.
• Opportunity section integration with Salesforce proof of concept project - consulting, creation of broad documentation regarding opportunity model workflow.
• Showcases section maintenance and development.
• Customer quality pulse and Delivery quality pulse section maintenance and development.
• Extensive amount of SQL scripts to extract data from database regarding specific requirements.
• Visual facelift and upgrade for whole project.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• CSS
• Javascript
• jQuery
• Oracle
• SolR
• RSpec
• Cucumber
• Jasmine

Project Description

Display dynamic information regarding Ruby Team on monitor in office. This includes birthdays, namedays, weather forecast, webcamera stream from office building's cafeteria, corporate system alerts, feed from National Vulnerability Database, team member messages sent from email. Project also helps organizing Tieto Ruby project & tool administration.

Technologies

• Ruby on Rails
• HTML
• LESS
• Javascript
• jQuery
• MySQL
• Bootstrap
• RSpec
• Cucumber

Description

Bachelor of engineering science in computer control and computer science. Main field of study for the qualification is automation and computer engineering.

Bachelor thesis - PHP Portal Development with Content Management System XOOPS.