Three years ago I moved from Kiev, Ukraine to San Francisco to start a new life. For ten years I was a journalist and newscaster for different Kiev’s major TV networks and newspapers. It was an exciting and challenging career, but one that took a toll with the regular political upheaval during those years. By 2015, after Ukraine’s Revolution of Dignity, I had finally decided to seek out a better future. To pull back from the camera and focus on the office work I much preferred – in a location and industry with far more potential.
Soon after arriving in San Francisco, I began my journey in the technology industry with a course in Quality Assurance Testing and a job as a Software Test Engineer soon thereafter. It was a modest beginning, but one that fueled an obsession with software development and data in general. I quickly moved from black-box testing to white-box testing and then more advanced Python tools and associated QA Automation frameworks (Selenium Webdriver, etc). At work, I wrote UI and workflow QA automation code bases from scratch but soon realized I was craving a deeper understanding. I pushed well beyond my comfort zone in QA, coding several independent projects from the ground up and learning new languages in the process. Coding brought a satisfaction I had never experienced before and it was apparent I was quite good at it.
Passionate to become a proper coder, I decided to take General Assembly’s Software Engineering Immersive bootcamp – a full-time classroom-based course covering full-stack web based development. During the class, I built five full-stack web applications from the ground up on diverse teams of developers and UI/UX designers leveraging new programming languages and frameworks. You can take a look at them in my portfolio.
After a bootcamp I had a great opportunity to practice my new skills as a full stack developer at small but fast developing company and built a new client onboarding tool and a UI prototype of a web based mobile app.
MY TOOLS:
January 2019 - present
February 2017 - August 2018
November 2016 - September 2018
July 2013 - March 2016
A social network for dog owners. Users can see all their neighbors and dogs on the map, post and read news, photos, create events, follow and message other people.
Tools:
This game is an accurate copy of the first digital game in my life and by that time it was real technological breakthrough of my childhood. Just some magic in a plastic box with four buttons. Try it here!
Tools:
Trakr is a working hours tracking app for freelancers that work simultaneously on multiple projects. Each project has individual settings that include hours pay rate, so user can track not only amount of hours he spent on particular task but also his profit.
Tools:
It’s a special blog for people who are tired with daily routine and gray walls of their offices and who want to switch their attention to the Universe and think about beauty and eternity. Main news field is generated with NASA API and contains multiple pictorial photos from the space. Users can leave likes and comments under each post, use photos for meditation and if they feel inspired they can repost any space photo at own blog page along with some poetry.
Tools:
September 2018 - December 2018
Software Engineering Immersive
Top graduate of GA’s ‘Software Engineering Immersive’ bootcamp. A full-time, classroom based course covering full-stack web based development. Built 5 full-stack web applications on diverse teams of developers and UI/UX designers:
November 2016 - January 2017
Software Test Engineer
2002 - 2007
MA, Economics
