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Artem Avetisyan

Web Developer

Thonon-les-Bains, France

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About

Experienced fullstack web developer with over 15 years of hands-on experience in crafting web applications, specializing in Ruby on Rails and Node.js.

Profiles

Work

Featurist

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Principal developer

https://archive.featurist.co.uk/

At this London-based consultancy, I worked on various client projects, developing high quality server and client side code.

Highlights

  • Worked on greenfield projects and legacy system replacements, utilising a diverse tech stack from Node.js to Rails.
  • Gained insights into various industries through diverse projects, which improved my problem-solving approach.
  • Worked both solo and as a part of client team, sharing my expertise, and coaching when necessary.
  • Took on devops tasks when necessary.
  • Contributed to open source, wrote blog posts, and spoke at tech events.

Funding Circle (UK)

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Helped various teams with product and infrastructure development.

Highlights

  • Upgraded the main FC Rails app to modern version of ruby (which was previously deemed too hard).
  • Developed a way to run the entire FC stack locally, thus boosting productivity across the entire tech department.
  • Worked on ETL side of FC app integration with Salesforce.

The People’s Operator

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A greenfield project to build a mobile operator store site for their launch in the US.

Appear Here

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Software Developer

https://www.appearhere.co.uk/

Worked as a part of small agile team on various aspects of the site: searching for places, booking places, landlord onboarding, admin backend and more.

Highlights

  • Worked in a very fast paced startup environment, often working on multiple things at a time.

Shopa

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Software Developer

https://shopa.com/

Building tech for a disruptive startup.

Highlights

  • Worked both solo and as a part of a team.
  • Quickly pivoting as the business was actively looking for a winning strategy.

BBC Public Service

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Developer-in-test

https://www.bbc.com/

Helped BBC Future Media teams to integrate TDD/BDD into their projects.

Highlights

  • Worked closely with product owners to define software specs
  • Developed a testing tool - RestAssured - that is still in use in the BBC.

And more...

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Mainly Perl web development and a few small Rails contracts.

Skills

Backend

  • Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails
  • Node.js, Typescript
  • Go
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Postgres, Mysql, Sqlite

Frontend

  • HTML5, CSS3
  • React, Stimulus, Next.js, NextUI
  • Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, Bulma
  • webpack, esbuild

Automated testing

  • BDD, Cucumber
  • TDD, Rspec, Minitest, Mocha
  • Capybara, Selenium

DevOps

  • AWS, Cloudformation, Lambda, CDK
  • Kubernetes
  • Heroku
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Mobile

  • Dart
  • Flutter
  • NativeScript
  • RubyMotion

Soft Skills

  • Leadership/mentorship
  • Project management
  • Written & verbal communication
  • Team collaboration
  • Detail oriented

Projects

Super slim and minimalistic translator browser extension. 100K+ Chrome and Firefox users.

Native mobile app (iOS/Android) to help guitar player read tabs from the phone while playing. Developed in Flutter.

everybody.voting

https://everybody.voting/

Private anonymous forum with voting.

A fun github log viewer, styled as a Star Wars crawl. Brought me to the top of Hackernews.

The smallest Rails app

https://thesmallestrailsapp.dev/

The smallest Rails app in the World.

Tmux plugin to open file links in Vim

A tiny little Roblox game I made for my daughter's birthday.

Languages

English: Fluent

French: Intermediate

Russian: Native