Mariia Kozhemiakina

Software Engineer

Contact information: flerka@suddengunter.com
Location: United Kingdom
Github: http://github.com/flerka Programming blog: https://flerka.github.io/personal-blog/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariia-k/

Software Engineer with 4 years of experience

I'm a software engineer with 4+ years of enterprise experience in the .NET stack. I was a part of consulting teams and worked for a product company. I participated in requirements analysis and feature planning. I worked as a full-stack web developer and on server code only. In addition, I have experience with Scrum and other Agile software development methodologies. I'm interested in .NET internals, blogging and data science.

Skills

Languages: C# | JavaScript | TypeScript | Python.
DB: PostgreSQL | SQL Server | Redis.
Cloud: AWS | Azure | DigitalOcean.
Ops: Docker | Github Actions | Prometheus | Grafana | Jenkins | Bash | WSL | Git | etc.
Frontend: React | Chakra UI | Next.js.

Work Experience

Unemployed | 2018 - Present
I worked on personal projects and participated in open source development. Core achievements:
  • Hash Code 2021: almost made to top 1000 on day 1 (and vastly improved our solution on day 2, which would be in the top 80 if the ranking were still enabled on the second day).
  • Advent of Code 2021, Advent of Code 2015: done 25/25 tasks.
  • My tech blog: helped more then 1.5k developers in the last year. Check my Native AOT and Channels in .NET posts.
  • Telegram bot: my bot was vastly used by AH LCG game community in Telegram.
  • Metrics humidity application: helped with monitoring sensors in my household.
  • Check my GitHub for my other contributions in open source.
GlobalLogic, Kharkiv | Software Engineer | 2016 - 2018
Project that helped the business to track expenses and manage credit cards through web UI. The project had great observability because of the rich metrics managed with Splunk. Core achievements:
  • Improved card blocking and issuing features: fixed many edge cases related to the card issuing and blocking that helped avoid unexpected behaviours to our users.
  • Helped to shape requirements for critical card-related features: worked closely with the product manager to shape the requirements of the new features we were building to help reduce the time from the development to the shipping cycle.
  • Implemented infrastructure quality of life improvements: migrated from TFS to Git on Github and Jenkins, improved CI/CD pipeline duration significantly.
  • Increased critical parts code coverage: added tests for spending limits subsystem that helped to avoid failure in complicated scenarios based on transactions types.
Devart, Kharkiv | Software Engineer | 2014 - 2016
Time-tracker solution, which included a web application with rich UI, desktop client, extension for all major browsers, Jira and Redmine plugins and various task-trackers integrations from the start of the project. The backend of this project was hosted in Azure. Core achievements:
  • Improved third-party integrations shipping speed: developed a framework that helped QA engineers and developers to automate testing of various third-party integration scenarios on a project (similar to simplified Pact.io).
  • Developed Projects feature: one of the core features both on the client and server side.
Plarium, Kharkiv | Trainee Software Developer | 2014
Worked as a trainee developer on different projects. Received a lot of hands-on .NET experience.
  • Developed a mock game server for the training project
  • Worked on parallel-oriented desktop and web (ASP .NET MVC) projects
Illusix, Kharkiv | SEO Specialist | 2011 - 2014
Worked on more than 20 projects for clients all over the world, helping them with internal SEO, AdSense campaigns and making their sites more search-friendly.
  • Analyzed websites and performed optimizations to make clients' sites more search-friendly.
  • Wrote specification for content managers.
  • Coordinated remote employees.
  • Set up AdSense campaigns for company clients.

Education

MSc in "System Programming", Graduation 2013 from National Aerospace University "KhAI"

BSc in "Computer Engineering", Graduation 2012 from National Aerospace University "KhAI"

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