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Alexander Kozlov
Senior developer — Яндекс
Senior developer at Yandex, ex-teamlead and techlead at ClearScale (premium AWS consulting partner), and ex-teamlead at EPAM Systems. I write in Node.js and React, but I also have a lot of experience in Java and PHP. I have some pet projects, one of them is the largest online comics publishing platform in Russia. I don't like to bind myself to one technological stack and constantly learn something new, so I'm good at separating basic must-know IT skills, and specific not-so-important and easy-to-google skills. With more than 11 years in IT, I'm familiar with all aspects of software development: requirements gathering, solution architecture, environment setup, database architecture, backend, frontend, debugging, testing, support and improvement. I used to work as a mentor in large educational platforms, participated in organization of international offline bootcamp for fullstack-developers.
🤝 Can help with
- Help to find your personal career path in IT
- Career aspects consulting
- CV and interview preparation
- Determine gaps in your hard- and soft-skills
- Grow strategy from Junior to Middle, and from Middle to Senior
- Help to overcome fear of interviews, even it's your first interview in 5 years
- Help with fundamental It knowledge
- Teach how to solve programming tasks, including whiteboarding
- Teach algorithms and data structures
- Help to switch from one technological stack to another
💻 Work experience
March 2023 — until now
Яндекс — Senior Software Developer (Node.js, React.js)
August 2021 — November 2022
ClearScale — TechLead/TeamLead (Node.js, React.js, AWS)
July 2020 — July 2021
4spaces — Lead Software Developer (Node.js)
September 2019 — December 2020
Яндекс — Mentor, Methodologist (Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)
December 2019 — May 2020
Algorithmics Global — Methodologist, Teacher (Node.js, JavaScript, HTML/CSS)
September 2019 — November 2019
HTML Academy — Mentor (JavaScript, Node.js, HTML/CSS)
October 2018 — September 2019
Pathway OME Rus — Senior Software Developer (Java, JavaScript)
April 2015 — September 2018
Epam — Senior/Lead Software Developer (Java)
August 2014 — February 2015
WeSEE — Software Developer (Java, JavaScript, Python)
July 2011 — July 2014
Auteur Comics — Lead Software Developer (PHP, MySQL, Apache)
July 2010 — June 2011
Start2com — Software Developer (Java)
July 2008 — December 2008
Samara – Geoinformsputnik — Junior Software Developer (Java)
🤟 Projects
Largest webcomics publishing platform in Russia. It was originally developed by me in 2008. During the next years it was significantly improved and extended by me and our team. Currently it serves about 30,000 active users per day.
Dashboard for real time displaying team scores on CodeWars hackathons. It took me 2 intense days to implement first stable version. Later it's significantly improved version was used multiple times on different EdTech projects.
Demo application for offline bootcamp for fullstack-developers. It took one evening to implement frontend+backend and one more evening to make application design corresponds company guidelines. Source code was open to encourage students to explore and modify it.
As a teacher and mentor I was responsible for fullstack-developers preparation on international offline bootcamp. I also helped to compose bootcamp methodical materials as a methodologist and consultant.