About

Hello, I’am Mykola Kecha. I work as a software engineer since 2013. During that time I was "wearing different kind of hats" - software engeener, team lead, tech lead. Primary spcecialization is PHP (Symfony, Laravel, VueJS, ReactJS), but last year or so also using NodeJS & Golang (mostly on freelnaces & personal projects).

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Summary of skills

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript
  • NodeJS
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • HTML
  • CSS, SCSS
  • Laravel (certified)
  • Symfony
  • ExpressJS
  • ReactJS
  • MobX
  • VueJS
  • Vuetify
  • Docker
  • Docker Swarm
  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • Ansible
  • Jenkins
  • Git
  • TDD, BDD
  • Scrum (Kanban)
  • Team leading
  • Microservices
  • AWS (1 certification)
  • GCP (2 certifications)
  • UX/UI (2 certifications)

Work experience

Namecheap
2023.03 - on going
Overview
Namecheap is one of the world's biggest domain registrars. Also provides other services, like shared hosting.

Most of team's work is being done agains green-field product spaceship.com
Technologies
PHP, Symfony, Postgres, AWS, K8S, ReactJS, MobX, Microservices, Microfrontends, Event Sourcing
Role
Tech Lead (of one of the hosting teams; specialized in shared hosting & VPS hosting)
Team
5 devs, 4 QAs, PO
Sabbatical
2022.09 - 2023.03
Overview
It's not a company name - it was a real break from any daily jobs. It was a need for some space and desire to learn new things.
Stuff I was learning
Took UI course, then UX course. And then a management course. All three at the Projector
Stuff I was working on
A personal project, but it's still on-going, and I don't want to disclose it until the release (if it'll happen some day, 'cause... well you know the usual destiny of the personal projects...)
AICTY
2018.09 - 2019.04
Overview
"All I Can Tell You" is a free-of-charge biographical platform which offers that gift for posterity and a chance to meet new like-minded friends.
Technologies
PHP, Laravel, Node.js, Express, AWS DynamoDB, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, AWS EC2, Redis, ElasticSearch, Docker, Dynamoose, Mocha, PHPUnit, Socket.io
Role
Backend developer, team lead
Team
1 backend developer, 1 fullstack developer, 1 frontend developer, 1 QA
Milscorp
2017.12 - 2018.11
Overview
Set of solutions for (forex) trading. Among projects – CRM/CMS, Trading Platform etc.
Technologies
Node.js, Express, Vue.js, PHP, FatFreeFramework, Laravel, MySQL, Docker, bash scripting, REST, PHPUnit, TeamCity, Jenkins, Ansible
Role
Fullstack developer, team lead
Team
4 PHP developers, 1 NodeJS developer, 1 QA
Slyce
2016.04 - 2018.08
Overview
American company specialized on recognizing of images (mostly fashion products)
Technologies
PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Postgres, AWS EC2, AWS DynamoDB, Docker, bash scripting, REST, PHPUnit
Role
Backend developer
Team
1 backend developer, 1 QA, 1 frontend developer
Trademax
2015.05 - 2016.03
Overview
Sweden e-commerce company tredemax.se
Technologies
PHP, Laravel, REST, SOAP, PHPUnit, Bootstrap
Role
Backend developer
Team
5 backend developers
Image CMS
2013.04 - 2015.04
Overview
E-commerce CMS product, later SAAS product “premmerce”
Technologies
PHP, javascript. Codeigniter, PropelORM, JQuery, Python, Gearman queues, ISP Panel
Role
Backend developer
Team
8 backend developers, 2 QAs, 4 frontend developers, 3 designers

EDUCATION

UAD
2005 - 2010
Faculty
Economics
Motivation
It was a mistake

Languages

Ukrainian
Native
English
Upper-intermediate
Polish
Pre-intermediate