My way to development begun in 2002, two days before Christmas when my father brought home the first computer. It was a very special day in my life.
Four years later I did not dare to apply to Computer Science at University (I know it sounds naive in 2024, but in Ukraine at that time it was still a “boys” profession and it is so cool that now the world gets rid of this cliche), so I choose Economic and Management. Besides others, I had 6 semesters of Informatics, where I have learned basics and built my first website. After graduation, I founded my own start-up - a translation agency. This background helps me in my work as a developer in learning new, as well as in the strategic approach to problems, to act independently and work successfully in a team (at the beginning we were 3 colleagues and 4 years later 11).
In 2014 I have moved to Germany and worked as a freelance translator for a few years. After obtaining German citizenship, I decided to start a new career and combine two of my passions: languages and computers. For this, I have finished the 1-year program at Digital Career Institute in Berlin, had 10-weeks internship and worked on my own projects.
Currently, I am a frontend developer in a team with 7 colleagues. Our company, with 100 employees and locations in Berlin and Bonn, specializes in crafting innovative solutions for public service, healthcare, and business clients.
In my free time, I like traveling (visited 27 countries), painting (studied at art school), and golf (assistant of the chief organizer of a non-profit golf association).
•A one-year-full-time training including technologies from MERN stack
•Daily exercises and workshops in a team environment
•Completing multiple small and one final practical project to practise programming skills
•MERN Stack Front To Back: Full Stack ReactJS, Redux & Node.js
•Advanced JavaScript
•Diploma recognized of Ministers for Cultural Affairs and Foreign Education (Bonn, Germany)
•Graduated with honors
•Diploma made in cooperation with city government
•Volunteer in organizing committee for scientific conferences
•Built a new App (data provider generator) in a team using Angular, TypeScript, SCSS, HTML, Cypress, Jest, Bitbucket, responsive for different devices
•Learned and took ownership of the end-to-end testing strategy using Cypress, integrated into CI/CD pipeline
•Share knowledge and help onboard new developers on my team
•Expand functionality of the existing projects to meet the evolving needs and wishes of customers
•Identify and fix bugs, conduct thorough debugging and testing to maintain a high level of quality and reliability for end-users
•Conceptualizing and programming of core features, such as the display jobs page, filters, search, responsiveness for different devices, design using React, Redux, Context, Node.js, RESTful APIs, VanillaJS, Sass, MongoDB and Git
•Refactoring React code with Redux and Context
•Conducted technical interviews for new candidates for the team
•Customer acquisition and communication
•Translation of documents, technical and literary texts (German, English, Russian, Ukrainian)
•Responsible for strategic planning, marketing, financial reports
•Team management (the team was grown from 3 to 11 members in four years)
