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Vlad Parkalau

Full Stack Developer

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Vancouver BC, Canada

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Experience
Bluewave Labs: April 2024 - Present

Team Lead / Full Stack Engineer

  • Leading a team of 6 developers in the development of an onboarding application.
  • Utilizing a tech stack PostgreSQL, Express.js, React, and Node.js (PERN).
  • Managing version control and collaboration through GitHub.
  • Coordinating tasks and sprints, ensuring timely delivery of features.
  • Conducting code reviews and maintaining high standards of code quality.
Freelance: May 2023 - March 2024

WordPress Developer

  • Lead platform development and launched two WordPress websites: stoneroadins.com and precisioncontractinginc.com.
  • Customized themes and plugins to meet client requirements.
  • Optimized websites for SEO and improved load times.
  • Managed client communication and gathered requirements.
MindGeek: January 2023 - April 2023

Software Developer

  • Collaborated with a team to maintain complex business problems and big data involving millions of participants.
  • Writing, testing and debugging code (PHP)
  • Worked closely with project teams to address data and computing challenges in high traffic online environments.
  • Optimized and managed large databases for performance (MYSQL, NoSQL)
  • Conducted server-side resource profiling, optimization, and debugging in a UNIX/Linux environment.
MolecularYou: February 2021 - July 2022

Software Engineer

  • Writing, testing and debugging front-end, back-end code that works across multiple browsers and cross platforms (tablets, desktops, mobile) (Ruby, React)
  • Creating web services like REST API for front-end mobile application (Ruby on rails)
  • Design, write, modify, integrate, and test front-end code, prototyping components and navigation structure for mobile application (react-native, figma)
  • Using GitHub to update and deploy code. (Kubernetes, Docker)
  • Made use of continuous integration and deployment (GitHub, AWS, GitHub Actions)
UBC OBER - Biobanking.org: April 2017 - February 2021

WEB Developer

  • Developing an operational database to store user online biobank education research data from the Biobank Resource Centre (Laravel, PHP).
  • Design, plan and implement computer simulation of research data (Python).
  • Participate in laboratory meetings and present work for review.
  • Responsibility for customizing and developing ATiM (PHP, CakePhp)
Spritecs - Actamedical.com: February 2013 to August 2016

WEB Developer

  • Planned, architected, developed and maintained high-load systems.
  • Developing a Sales / CRM software tech stack using CodeIgniter, MySQL, Smarty.
  • Worked on client (JavaScript, jQuery), server (PHP, NGINX) and database (MariaDB)
  • Created a friendly interface with advanced search, data structuring, information sharing, personalization capabilities and analytics areas.
  • Successfully diagnosed, troubleshoot and resolve client issues
Akavita: January 2012 to February 2013

WEB Developer

  • Developed a high-load (millions of users) social network portal for the Asian market.
  • Created and supported news and contact modules. (Node, Ember)
  • Handled a complex environment with multiple server-side languages (PHP, NodeJS) and databases (MySQL, Redis).
  • Developed client-side code based on Ember.js MVC framework.
  • Using Javascript, CoffeeScript, JQuery in a high availability environment
LINEV Systems: September 2007 - August 2011

QA Automation Engineer

  • Worked for the production of X-Ray Medical Systems & Security Systems (Advin.by).
  • Assisted in the development of applications, developed and maintained automated test scripts using C# and .NET for applications, improving test efficiency.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams.
  • Contributed to continuous integration and delivery processes by integrating automated tests into the build pipeline.
Education
Bachelor of Computer Science (2004 - 2008)

Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus

Languages & Frameworks
PHP
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
C/C++
Deployment Tools
GitHub
GitLab
GIT
SVN
CI/CD
JIRA
Apache
Nginx
AWS
GCP
Kubernetes
Docker
Databases
MySql
MariaDB
Redis
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Frameworks And Libraries
React
React-native
Laravel
Node
Symfony
Vue
JQuery
Ember
CodeIgniter
Smarty
.NET
HTML
XML
CSS
Drupal
Wordpress
CakePHP