Alex

Work experience

2022 -
2023
/ Infinit.dev
/ Bratislava
Senior Software Developer

Work on the backend infrastructure of testmon.net and guestcloud.sk

2020 -
2022
/ 01people
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and implementation for Cardano cryptocurrency into crypto-related projects for Fintech company - 01People. Managing cardano-node (cli/api/wallet), cardano-sync-db (which is blockchain to PostgreSQL synchronization tool, >1billion rows), implementing deposits, withdrawals, NativeToken minting., NFT minting, Royalties, and other Cardano related features (CIP(s)).

Worked with: Docker, Cardano (all services that exist), Python, Django, RESTframework, Git, PostgreSQL, Redis

2019 -
2020
/ Benalex, s.r.o.
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and implementation company’s e-commerce and intranet which binds together e-shop, accounting software (MRP), warehouse data and retail data (cash-register), creating a digital “big picture” overview and easy management of every aspect related to company management and its business.

Worked with: Nginx, Gunicorn, Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Bootstrap

2016 -
2019
/ Infinit, s.r.o.
/ Bratislava
Web application developer

Backend developer on a bigger team of 20 developers + 11 QA for a Finnish telecommunication company DNA (dna.fi). Responsible for delivering new features and resolving production bugs in multiple web applications (webshops, order handling, customer self service, CRM and administration application)

Workded with: Python, Django, VueJS, jQuery, MariaDB, Redis, UML, Git, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket

2015 -
2016
/ Pexeso Inc.
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and implementation data structure and gathering for pex.com, a Digital Rights Management platform. Large scale data scrapping, processing >1TB data per day, >1billion rows  in PostgreSQL, all optimized for realtime processing.

Worked with: Nginx, Gunicorn, Python, Django, RESTframework, Celery, Flask, PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, BigData, HBase, Hadoop, Phoenix, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Hive, Git

2013 -
2015
/ Reactor Inc.
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and implementation of different parts of the system Reactor.am,  an analytical/marketing tool similar to today’s exponea(.com) of ifttt(.com) based on realtime user-action to trigger-action. Mainly implementation and maintenance of 3rd party data sources for rich action-trigger scenarios from weather forecasts, sports results, stock prices, whole services like Shopify, Mailgun etc.

Worked with: Nginx, Gunicorn, Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, AmazonAWS, AmazonS3, DynamoDB

2011 -
2013
/ Synopsi Inc.
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and i implementation for Synopsi.tv, a personalized movie recommendation system (machine learning), especially data processing, scraping, cleaning, managing. From effective/optimized database structure to scraping with proxy/VPN/TOR obfuscations, ban mitigations from audio/video services such as IMDb, Netflix, AmazonPrime, TVRage, BlinkBox, Hulu, Vudu, Hitbliss, PirateBay and many more. Development of data administration system (>10M titles).

Worked with: Nginx, Gunicorn, Python, Django, Celery, PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Tor, AmazonS3, Hetzner, Load-balancing (zero-downtime approach)

2008 -
2011
/ Zoznam.sk
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Design and implementation for Zoznam the largest Slovak internet company, of custom-build CMS framework in Perl and of various news e-magazines: topks.skdromedar.skfeminity.skautominy.skmojdom.sk. Internal tools, newsletter system, various plugins for custom CMS (weather data, stocks data, …)

Worked with: Apache, Perl, MariaDB, Memcached, multi-server infrastructure, load balancing, master-slave replication, +100k users

2002 -
2008
/ Freelancer
/ Bratislava
Web Application Developer

Design and implementation of custom-build CRM, CMS applications, using Laravel and Symphony PHP frameworks. Customization and plugins development for open-source projects: Wordpress, Magento, eCommerce, 20+ e-shops. Frontend designs Photoshop/Illustrator/HTML/CSS/JS (oldschool)

Worked with: PHP, Apache, MySQL

2016 -
2022
/ Personal projects
/ Bratislava
Software Developer

Lineapp: was a universal event mobile application, that automatically redesigned itself based on phones GPS location near ongoing event, concert, festival, containing event data, lineup, maps, other promoter info.

Worked with: Ngnix, Gunicorn, Python, Django, RESTframework, Git, PostgreSQL, Redis, Apache Cordova, AngularJS, Ionic

Tradingsystem: is robust stock and stock options fully autonomous algorithmic trading system for state-machine-like trading algorithms via InteractiveBrokers API. Large scale data scrapping for most-informed decision/price-action trading decisions. >1M data rows per week, EconomicEvents, StockOptions, SocialScanner (real-time twitter scraper >10k tweets/month), MarketSnapshots (OTC/NASDAQ/NYSE), for up-to-date data, StockSignals based on social, macro-economic, unusual market events, company share structure changes, … many more.

Worked with: Ngnix, Gunicorn, Python, Django, Git, PostgreSQL, Redis, Bootstrap, IB Gateway (API)

InGym: is event/course management system for sport clubs, with user, payments, courses, attendance management. Automatic payments pairing, newsletters, notifications and more.

Worked with: Ngnix, Gunicorn, Python, Django, Git, PostgreSQL, Redis, Bootstrap

Education

2002 -
2007
Bratislava
Master's study

Slovak Technical University

Information Technology

Profile

Senior Python developer with 15+ years of experience of managing, designing, developing and maintaining web applications.

Skills

Recently worked with

Python, Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, Cardano (all services that exist), RESTframework, Git, Redis

Good with

Python, Django, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, Debian, Ngnix, Gunicorn, Redis, Git, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS

Familiar with

Apache Cordova, Ansible, RabbitMQ, HBase, Hadoop, Phoenix, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Celery, Amazon AWS/SES/S3, Google Cloud, Hetzner, Linode, Digitalocean, Mailgun, Twilio

Languages

slovak:
Native
english:
Fluent

Hobbies

books