Nikolay Khodov
Software Developer
Nikolay is a full-stack developer who’s looking to expand his career as a software engineer by drawing upon his wealth of experience—several years worth of adding value to reputable companies. He specializes in server-side development and also has superb design and coding skills. Due to Nikolay’s skills, precision, and dedication to all undertaken tasks, he’s become quite good at converting client requirements into exciting online apps.
Portfolio
Experience
PostgreSQL - 11 yearsPython - 11 yearsJavaScript - 11 yearsDjango - 10 yearsNode.js - 8 yearsTypeScript - 5 yearsReact - 3 yearsLocation
Availability
Preferred Environment
Git, Linux, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I’ve developed was a fast server-side rendering engine that enables end customers to preview their carports.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Fieldguide
- Boosted audit experience for advisory and assurance companies.
- Built and maintained an advanced report generation tool handling custom Word templates.
- Automation and collaboration using Node.js, TypeScript, React, and GraphQL.
Full-stack Software Engineer
Client (via Toptal)
- Built an application for managing short-term rentals for local governments from scratch.
- Designed the database and API (Hasura, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Nest.js, and Heroku).
- Implemented a large front-end application in Angular 8 and 9 according to wireframes as well as a back end in Nest.js/Node.js.
- Created scrapers for various short-term rental platforms to extract ~100% of all listings in a given area.
- Integrated Google Maps and Bing Maps for reverse geocoding and injecting map widgets.
- Set up the AWS environment (AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, and AWS EC2).
Full-stack Developer
DataPrivia (via Toptal)
- Built an electronic health records (EHR) web application (React/Django) implementing HIPAA requirements.
- Migrated a video-on-demand education platform from Aurelia/JS to React/TypeScript (front end).
- Developed a single sign-on plugin for supporting multiple SAML IdPs (Django back end).
Senior Software Engineer
Cimpress Technologies (Logistics)
- Finished a full-stack solution to let customer choose pickup points of several providers on the single screen.
- Created an address validation tool to reduce carrier service penalties due to delivering packages to wrong addresses.
- Built high-performant back-end microservices in Node.js.
- Implemented cloud engineering on AWS to provide a high-availability infrastructure with strict SLAs.
- Heavily used React/Redux to produce customer tools with a clean-and-smooth UI.
Mobile Application Developer
Barclays Capital
- Worked on the mobile application to key players in financial markets (on-the-go analysts, institutional clients, and more).
- Developed complex cross-platform (desktop/mobile) HTML screens in AngularJS.
- Optimized to provide a native experience of high-content HTML screens on the mobile platforms.
- Set up a scalable scraping framework with scraping to verify upstream data feeds' integrity based on business rules and requirements.
- Implemented data visualizations using d3.js and custom in-house frameworks.
Software Engineer
Salsita
- Developed cross-browser extensions and complex web apps.
- Built custom server-side solutions in Node.js and Python.
- Used various databases like MongoDB and MySQL to securely store and quickly access data.
- Strongly followed test-driven development to ship sustainable business value to customers.
- Focused on an agile-based process with continuous integration (Jenkins, CircleCI) for a predictable delivery.
Experience
Barclays Live Mobile App
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.barclays.livePickup Points
I built the back-end solution to store and serve geospatial requests. For the front end, we built a responsive React app that smoothly worked with a mobile and desktop layout and across different browsers.
Technologies: Node.js, Math, React/Redux, Elasticsearch, BrowserStack
Best Exchange Rate in Prague
Decommissioned in February 2020. Its source code is available at https://bitbucket.org/hodik/bestexchangerateprague.com/src
Technologies: React, Node.js, TypeScript, Puppeteer, CircleCI, Google Firebase, Ionic Framework, AWS S3, AWS CloudFront, AWS Lambda, Terraform,
Keywords: Headless Browsers, Scraping, iOS, Android
Skills
Languages
HTML, CSS, ECMAScript (ES6), HTML5, SCSS, CSS3, PHP, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python 2, Python 3, GraphQL, SAML, Java, Less
Frameworks
Jest, Bootstrap 3+, NestJS, Django REST Framework, Angular, MUI (Material UI), Angular Material, Django, Redux, Ionic, Express.js, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Swagger
Libraries/APIs
Google APIs, REST APIs, Google API, Node.js, React, React Redux, Puppeteer, Facebook API, Google Maps, OpenAPI, Google Maps API
Tools
CircleCI, Docker Compose, React Apollo, Git, Mocha, Terraform
Paradigms
REST, RESTful Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Test Automation, Agile, Scrum, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Functional Programming
Platforms
Heroku, AWS Lambda, Amazon EC2, Docker, Mobile, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Firebase, MacOS, Linux
Storage
Memcached, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Hasura
Other
APIs, Full-stack, WebSockets, Single-page Applications (SPA), SAML-auth, Algorithms, Scraping, Front-end, TypeORM, Leadership, Mobile Web, Chrome Extensions, Apollo
Education
Master's Degree in Aerospace Engineering
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology - Moscow, Russia