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Experience
CTO
Skar Audio
- Lead developer at an online retail company
- Built an online shop using the Next.JS React framework
- Integrated the site with dozens of third-party apps using REST and GraphQL APIs
- Built a backend for order management, warehouse management (with iPhone app), and supply management
- Automated invoicing and finances with Quickbooks
Senior Business Application Specialist
Nintendo of Europe GmbH
Responsible for 20+ internal custom-built web applications, managing a team of up to 6 employees, ensuring all applications work reliably and quickly, developing, updating, and supporting web applications, and forecasting budgets
Knowledge Article Database: web-based document management system for customer support knowledge articles, supporting localization into multiple European languages; interfaces with Oracle Service Cloud; stores data in a git repository for change history and backups
Meeting Room Booking System: custom-built Wii-style online booking system with single sign-on from the Nintendo Intranet; editable room descriptions, rebooking, delete and undo-delete features, and a day overview chart
Release History: TYPO3-based game information system for the Electronic Manual Support department with a custom front-end plugin for data management
ROM Information System: shows software available at the datacenter; allows users to request specific versions with approval workflows and deadline tracking
Virtual Console Manual CMS: custom FCKeditor-based CMS for generating VC manuals as zip files; uses wget to download front-end results, regular expressions to relink files, and zipping
Anti-Piracy EU: TYPO3-based website with no custom plugins
Jam With the Band Music Management: online system for managing user-generated music scores uploaded from a DS game to GameSpy servers; uses the GameSpy SOAP API; supports searching, tagging, commenting, and approving; performs quality pre-checks, converts files to MP3, updates the GameSpy database, and encodes files using a custom Java application
Central Support Portal: TYPO3-based site with a forum for the Central Support Department and custom plugins
Consumer Service & Repair System: full-featured repair system including pickup requests, delivery tracking, status tracking, problem overview, work time tracking, invoicing (credit notes, delivery notes), JDE integration, reports, and a specialized workflow for volume customers
Navi: TYPO3-based knowledge base for the Communication Center department with half a million pages; fixed severe performance issues in TYPO3 core
WiiWare Manual: TYPO3-based custom manual editing CMS with a middle-end for editing content in the front end
and more...
Assistant Manager of Application Development Department
Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- Datacenter Inventory Database: web inventory for tracking Nintendo hardware and software, EAN scanner integration, supplementary modules (EAN barcode generator, reporting with graphs), and user interfaces for loan management
- BugLog: bug tracker for the Localization department with Excel and XML import, tester performance analysis, reports, and self-performance reporting for modules; over 200 users across 8 access levels, including external developer access
- Bijou: project and time tracking system extended with vacation tracking (Petri nets), export to Persis system, user/group/access rights management, general reporting system with SQL designer, custom reports, and Kaba time registration hardware interface; over 1000 users
- Automatic system for logging into the Panasonic HDD Video Recorder web server, reverse-engineering the login, listing and downloading the latest files for testers
- Glossary: web glossary of game terms with a .NET Windows application for hotkey-based lookup and clipboard automation; import system for Excel and XML glossaries
- Lotcheck Database: online information system for game submission status; enhanced front-end management and PDF report uploads; reporting and analysis scripts; integrated testing checklists
Data Center Technician in Technical Support Department
Nintendo of Europe GmbH
- Handled game ROM data for all Nintendo consoles in a highly secure environment
- Created an Internet Data Center Inventory Database for managing ROM data, employees, and hardware, with an ActiveX component for client-side ROM information
- Created a plug-in for WhereIsIt software to catalog ROM data
- Created Windows shell extensions to simplify the work of Data Center Technicians
IT-Consultant
HSO Business Systems GmbH
- Created four projects for Dutch insurance company Centraal Beheer using:
- BroadVision 5
- Dynamic Command Centre 5
- Blade Runner Information Manager 2
- Blade Runner to BroadVision pump
- MS SQL Server 7
- Oracle Server 8
- SQL Plus 8
- HTML, CSS, DHTML
- RMS (TCL), RMQL, XSLT, Xselerator
- Verity search engine
Web developer
Codex Web Design Studio
- Developed websites for:
- Codex Web Design Studio ([link]
- Ukrainian Referats ([link]
- First Lease ([link]
- SCAD Group ([link]
- CDMA Ukraine ([link]
- Leb-design ([link]
- Olympic Games (Ukraine) ([link]
- STI ([link]
IT Manager & Web Developer (part-time)
Pulse Ltd
- Systems and network administration supporting 40 PCs and 2 servers (UNIX mail server, dial-up, NAT, proxy, Windows 2000)
- Created company and client websites:
- Pulse Ltd ([link]
- Impressa Hotel ([link]
IT Manager (part-time)
Stalker Co
- Provided user and computer equipment support across a network of 20 PCs
- Performed hardware upgrades and network installations
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, Retail, and Insurance.
Business area experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Finance, and Supply Chain Management.
Summary
20 years of experience in web development, including architecture, database design, programming, user interface design, testing, DevOps, support, and promotion.
- Learned Flutter and built half a dozen mobile applications for both Android and iOS
- Learned multiple PHP frameworks (Zend, Symfony, Laravel, CakePHP)
- Created my own PHP framework
- Used hundreds of APIs (Google *, ebay, Facebook, etc.)
- Created multiple REST APIs
- Programmed for Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo 3DS
- Used multiple JS frameworks (React, Angular, Backbone, Marionette, Nest, …)
- Used SQL RDMS (MySQL, PostgreSQL) as well as NoSQL (MongoDB, ElasticSearch)
- Used cloud services from Amazon AWS, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud (Bluemix), …
- Built several secure authentication systems
- Implemented several DevOps and deployment systems (Jenkins, composer, GitHub Actions, custom scripts, …)
- Effectively used several version control systems (Git, Mercurial, SVN)
- Participated in several startups as CTO and main developer
- Used OpenCV running on Raspberry Pi to recognize digits on the electricity meter
- Taught myself Machine Learning using Python libraries
- Am an active mentor for young programmers offline and on CodeMentor.io
- Made a crypto-bot that works with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
- And much more...
Skills
- Windows (Expert)
- Unix (Expert)
- Mac Os (Good)
- Amazon Aws (Ec2, S3) (Good)
- Ibm Bluemix (Good)
- Mongodb (Basic)
- Mysql (Expert)
- Postgresql (Expert)
- Oracle (Basic)
- Ms Sql (Basic)
- Ms Access (Expert)
- Html (Expert)
- Dhtml (Expert)
- Css (Expert)
- Ajax (Expert)
- Php (Expert)
- Java (Good)
- Javascript (Expert)
- Sql (Expert)
- Xml (Expert)
- Xslt (Good)
- Node.Js (Expert)
- Cms Typo3 (Expert)
- Cms Blade Runner (Good)
- Ms Office (Expert)
- Technical Documentation Writing (Good)
- C/C++/Visual C++ (Good)
- Win Api (Basic)
- Mfc (Good)
- Opengl (Good)
- Pascal (Good)
- Delphi (Good)
- Visual Basic (Good)
- Vba (Basic)
- Tcl (Basic)
- Go (Basic)
- Lua (Basic)
- Photoshop (Good)
- Illustrator (Good)
- Page Maker (Good)
Languages
Education
The University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Magister degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · Kyiv, Ukraine
The University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"
Bachelor degree in Computer Science · Computer Science · Kyiv, Ukraine
Youth Technical and Business Administration Centrum
Small-Enterprise Manager qualification obtained · Small-Enterprise Manager
Certifications & licenses
Ethical Hacking Certification
EC-Council
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
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Svyetoslav is based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Svyetoslav speaks the following languages: Russian (Native), Ukrainian (Native), English (Advanced), German (Intermediate), French (Elementary).
Svyetoslav has at least 29 years of experience. During this time, Svyetoslav has worked in at least 8 different roles and for 6 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 4 years and 7 months. Note that Svyetoslav may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Svyetoslav would be well-suited for roles such as: CTO, Senior Business Application Specialist, Assistant Manager of Application Development Department.
Svyetoslav's most recent position is CTO at Skar Audio.
In recent years, Svyetoslav has worked for Skar Audio and Nintendo of Europe GmbH.
Svyetoslav is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Media and Entertainment, and Retail. Svyetoslav also has some experience in Insurance.
Svyetoslav is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Finance, and Supply Chain Management.
Svyetoslav has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Retail.
Svyetoslav has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Finance, and Supply Chain Management.
Svyetoslav holds a Master in Computer Science from The University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy" and a Bachelor in Computer Science from The University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy".
Svyetoslav has 1 certificate: Ethical Hacking Certification.
Svyetoslav is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.
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