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Elina Kolodiazhna

Elina Kolodiazhna

Gliwice

Summary

Accomplished Back End Team Lead at Avenga, adept in Ruby on Rails and fostering customer focus, significantly enhanced operational efficiencies and software quality. Spearheaded cross-functional collaborations, mentoring initiatives, and strategic integrations, driving performance improvements and robust solutions across diverse projects.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Back End Team Lead

Avenga
12.2023 - Current
  • Collaborated with other department leads to streamline workflows, improve interdepartmental coordination, and achieve business goals collectively.
  • Managed risks and mitigated potential issues through proactive planning, monitoring, and timely decisionmaking.
  • Assisted in recruitment to build team of top performers.
  • Optimized customer experience by delivering superior services and effectively troubleshooting issues
  • Helped meet changing demands by recommending improvements to business systems or procedures.
  • Maintained database systems to track and analyze operational data.

Senior Ruby On Rails Developer

Avenga
04.2023 - Current
  • Designed reusable components following object-oriented principles leading to more modularized codebase.
  • Streamlined development process, introducing automated testing and continuous integration tools.
  • Utilized caching strategies to improve page load times and overall site performance.
  • Integrated third-party APIs such as payment gateways and authentication services to enhance application functionality.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing Ruby on Rails code and database queries.
  • Reduced system downtime with proactive maintenance and timely bug fixes.
  • Modernized legacy systems with updated dependencies ensuring long-term stability.
  • Enabled rapid project iterations with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
  • Improved code quality through rigorous peer reviews and adoption of coding standards.
  • Developed scalable and maintainable applications using RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.
  • Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices in Ruby on Rails development.
  • Optimized database schema design to facilitate efficient querying of large datasets.
  • Facilitated seamless data migration for major platform upgrades while minimizing service disruptions.
  • Discussed site and app requirements with clients to produce actionable development plans.
  • Oversaw technical issues and troubleshooting requests to resolve user problems.
  • Built databases and table structures for web applications.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.
  • Documented software development methodologies in technical manuals to be used by IT personnel in future projects.

Ruby Developer

Epam
11.2021 - 03.2023
  • Implement new endpoints of the healthcare REST API, which are compliant with the FHIR standard for healthcare data exchange
  • Perform demos for clients
  • Secured sensitive customer data by implementing robust encryption techniques and adhering to industry compliance standards.
  • Streamlined development process, introducing automated testing and continuous integration tools.
  • Designed reusable components following object-oriented principles leading to more modularized codebase.
  • Reduced system downtime with proactive maintenance and timely bug fixes.
  • Onboarding new members
  • Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices in Ruby on Rails development.
  • Improved code quality through rigorous peer reviews and adoption of coding standards.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • Discussed site and app requirements with clients to produce actionable development plans.

Full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer

SoftServe
03.2021 - 11.2021
  • Integrated third-party APIs such as payment gateways and authentication services to enhance application functionality.
  • Provided front-end website development using React, Apollo
  • Provided back-end development using Ruby On Rails, GraphQL, ElasticSearch
  • Built table structures for web applications.
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Designed reusable components following object-oriented principles leading to more modularized codebase.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and deliver high-quality software solutions.
  • Developed scalable and maintainable applications using RESTful APIs and microservices architecture.

Full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer

RubyGarage
12.2018 - 03.2023
  • Coordinated deployments of new software, feature updates and fixes.
  • Designed reusable components following object-oriented principles leading to more modularized codebase.
  • Utilized caching strategies to improve page load times and overall site performance.
  • Integrated third-party APIs such as payment gateways and authentication services to enhance application functionality.
  • Enabled rapid project iterations with Agile methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
  • Reduced system downtime with proactive maintenance and timely bug fixes.
  • Enhanced application performance by optimizing Ruby on Rails code and database queries.
  • Mentored junior developers, providing guidance on best practices in Ruby on Rails development.
  • Coded websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery languages.
  • Implemented back-end features using Ruby On Rails
  • Tested and deployed scalable and highly available software products.
  • Modernized legacy systems with updated dependencies ensuring long-term stability.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming

National Technical University Dnipro Polytechnic
Dnipro, Ukraine
06.2014

Skills

  • Customer Focus
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Performance monitoring & improvement
  • Ruby, Rails, RSpec
  • CI/CD
  • PostgreSQL
  • Profiling & Monitoring Tools
  • Integrations
  • REST APIs
  • React
  • AWS

Languages

Ukrainian
Native language
English
Upper intermediate
B2
Polish
Elementary
A2

Timeline

Back End Team Lead

Avenga
12.2023 - Current

Senior Ruby On Rails Developer

Avenga
04.2023 - Current

Ruby Developer

Epam
11.2021 - 03.2023

Full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer

SoftServe
03.2021 - 11.2021

Full-stack Ruby on Rails Developer

RubyGarage
12.2018 - 03.2023

Master of Science - Computer Science And Programming

National Technical University Dnipro Polytechnic
Elina Kolodiazhna