Vladimir Savin

Principal Platform Engineer

Festicket•  October 2019 - Present

Improving the site's reliability during the big on sale events. Stock management optimisations to improve purchase experience to the users (less waiting time, fewer errors along the way, faster fulfillment). Setup a load testing environment and design of the testing scenarios using jMeter. Defining the key metrics and doing the work to improve them.

Backend Developer

Festicket•  December 2016 - October 2019

Lead the initial transition of the project from server-side Django rendered pages to API driven. Collaboration with the frontend team to redesign the existing flows and implementation of the backend part of those. Re-implementation of the shop architecture with the goal to support different types of products (to provide a flexible choice to the user) and more efficient stock management. Adding support of multiple payment gateways, payment methods and currencies to give more options to the users from different countries.

Full Stack Developer

Uploadcare•  November 2015 - November 2016

I was mainly been developing REST APIs for the service, responsible for the website (Django) and integrations with 3rd-party services. Been involved in the full development cycle - from discussion of an idea with stakeholders to actual deployment onto the production and tracking the key metrics.