Name: Alex Kirs
Email: alex.kirs@gmail.com
Education: B.S. Economics - Togliatti Academy of Management - 2004
Expertise in (work in development since 1999):
- PHP (Yii, CodeIgniter, CakePHP, Doctrine ORM)
- JavaScript (jQuery, Prototype, Dojo, ExtJs)
- Sphinx
- PhoneGAP/Cordova
- Adobe Flash/Flex scripting
- Media encoding and streaming solutions
- Basic linux administration (Setting up development environment lighttpd, memcached, spawn_php, mySQL)
- Cloud scripting (Google App Engine, Amazon EC2)
- CDN integration and own solution development
- Python (GAE, Django)
- Heavy load optimization (5M hits/server)
- Agile Development (Scrum, GTD, TDD)
2009-current Independent Web Developer
2010-2011 CTO at Zdravportal.ru
Medical system development that is currently used in region and has ~5k users daily and ~1k operators/doctors.
CTO, Organized and managed a team of 3 developers
Products:
2008-2009 Hi Tech Startup Team in Russia
Organized and managed a team of 10 developers for PartaGroup Russia
Products:
- Browser toolbar for IE/FF
- Web site (Python Django)
- Jabber communication server
2008-2009 University - Togliatti Academy of Management (
http://taom.ru)
- IT/Development (Oracle/PHP/Delphi)
- Courses (Web Development)
2005-2008 Offshore development department for USA clients
Organized and managed a team of 10 developers for ToneSoftware USA, LagunaSoftware USA
Products:
- Reliatel (Intranet JS/Java/C++ solution)
- PlaceAndTime.com (JS/Python startup)
2004-2005 Small Development Team
Organized and managed a team of 4 developers
Clients: US/Canada/Israel/Netherlands webmaster and site owners
Products: