Oleg Gerasimenko

Experienced (10y+) Web Engineer

London, United Kingdom

Summary

In the last 10 years, I've managed to get a broad range of skills in web development. It includes everything from product management to actually shipping these projects and maintaining them.

Languages:

English

Favorite Python Packages:

Django, requests

Experience

I'm co-founder and CTO at a digital agency with the focus on building digital products (web, mobile, bots, VR).

In the last 10 years, I've managed to get a broad range of skills. Currently, I'm interested in building prototypes for startups, but also available for other contract work. Read below on how I can help.

Management skills

• Project management (making sure projects runs on time and within budget, agile).
• Product management (making sure we don't build too much and we don't buildte shit).

Idea skills

• Wireframing (Taking concept into visual mockup).
• Prototyping (Building quick prototypes to see if users understand the product).
• Validating ideas (Checking with users if they want to use the product).

Development skills

• Python & Django Web Framework (My weapon of choice)
• Golang (For networking, and high-performance services)
• Javascript (Including jQuery, React.js and number of other libraries)
• HTML5 / CSS3 (With fallbacks for older browsers)
• Automated testing (Detecting problems early)
• Continuous deployment (For automated updates)
• Git (For content repository)

Dev ops

• Amazon Web Services (Hosting + few other useful tools)
• Linux (Ubuntu)
• CDN, SSL, VPN, and other acronyms.

In total, in the past years, I worked on more than 100 projects. From small prototypes to Internet-of-Things monitoring systems.

Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Celery, Django, Django REST Framework, Fabric, Fullstack Development, JavaScript, Nginx, PostgreSQL, ReactJS, Vagrant, Web Scraping