About me
WEB TECHNOLOGIES EXPERT,
AND INSTRUCTOR.
Currently, I am working as an CTO for International HealthTech company Nutrameg and cooperating as an Expert with State Development Agency of Latvia, and WorldSkills, and EuroSkills organizations on improving web development education standards as my way of giving back to society.
I have been working in IT my whole career, most of it as a backend developer. My core passion is the development of web-based systems.
Focus
My Expertise
Web Stack: PHP 4.x, 5.x, 7.x, 8.x (Frameworks, Laravel 3.x-9.x, Symfony 2.x-4.x, Smarty, Kohana, self-built) HTML 4, 5; CSS: 2.x 3.x, JS
Front end frameworks: prototype, jQuery, Angular JS, Angular, React, React native, Vue.JS, bootstrap)
Processing languages: Elixir, Golang
For desktop apps
Languages: C#, C++, .Net, JAVA
Databases: Oracle, MySql, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, SQL Wearhouse
Cloud solutions: AWS, AZURE, GC
Microservices and containers: Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes
OS: Centos 6,7 (for servers) Mac OS X Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, 10 Windows server 2102, 2016, 2019
DevOps: TeamCity, Upsource, GitLab, GitHub (on-premise solutions)
Caching engines: Redis, Memcache
Curriculum Vitae
Work Experience
Nutrameg
December 2019 – Present
CTO
– In charge of health-tech company’s technological needs as well as reasearch and development.
– Management of short and long term needs of software and IT infrastructure.
– Planning and maintenance of technological strategy.
WorldSkills International
January 2016 – Present
Web Technologies Expert
– Training competitors for national (Latvian) and international contests
– Latvian National Web Design Competition Coordination
– Chief Expert at National (Latvian) Web programming Competition (part of SkillsLatvia) (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019)
– Expert at EuroSkills 2016 Competition (Gothenburg, Sweeden)
– Expert at China International Skills 2016 Competition (Shanghai, China)
– Expert at WorldSkills International 2017 Competition (Abu Dhabi, United ArabEmirates)
– Expert at EuroSkills Competition 2018 (Budapest Hungary)
VIA SMS Group
July 2019 – December 2021
IT Architect
– Managing in-house developers and engineers in multiple countries.
– Introducing and creating multiple development guidelines and processes.
– Planning architectures for multiple financial (fin-tech) products.
– Creating prototype solutions for in-house projects.
– Planning and executing code-reviews for internal projects.
– Planning an implementing DevOps for internal projects.
Assecor Baltic
September 2017 – July 2019
Senior Software Architect
– Working at the Latvian branch of ASSECOR as Senior Software Architect, DevOps Architect.
– Managing in-house and external developers and engineers.
– Planning architectures for multiple enterprise clients
– Planning systems to work together with on-premises and cloud solutions.
– Creating prototype solutions for in-house projects
– Planning and executing code-reviews for internal and external clients
– Planning an implementing DevOps for internal and external projects
e-risinājumi
April 2005 – September 2017
CTO / co-owner
– Planning projects (technical architecture)
– Working with local and international clients to achieve their requirements.
– Multiple e-commerce, custom CRM and other intranet systems
– Technical requirement planning (networking and hardware) Solutions developed for, mobile (apps), desktop, web-based. For multiple types of sectors and clients (public and private sectors)
RemotE3
August 2009 – May 2011
Head of IT and Development Division
– Web-based systems development and planning from the ground up to end-user UI.
– Web development (HTML, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS, API’s)
– Web project management, employees workflow planning
TVNET Latvia
May 2005 – August 2009
Web Engineer
Latvian news portal tvnet.lv and it’s infrastructure (as needed) planning anddevelopment.
Latvian social network orb.lv and it’s infrastructure (as needed) planning and development.
End-client’s web site development, web site UI development.
Used skills: PHP (OOP), MySql, PostgreSql CSS, HTML, JavaScript, Unix,XML, PhotoShop and much more web development related technologies.
Grafton
July 2007 – August 2009
Web Engineer
Web development (full stack)
Certifications
Honors
& Awards
Director of the National Agency for Education Development
May 2019
Honors
for participation as Head of Jury in Young Professionals’ Contest SkillsLatvia 2019 in Web Development proffesion
Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia
March 2019
Diploma
for excellent candidate preperation for web development in EuroSkills 2018 competition
Director of the National Agency for Education Development
April 2018
Honors
for participation as Head of Jury in Young Professionals’ Contest SkillsLatvia 2018 in Web Development proffesion
Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia
December 2017
Honor
for the professional support given to the award-winning contestant during the preparation and competition and for representing Latvia in the jury of Web Design and Development profession at the WorldSkills 2017 World Young Professionals’ Contest
President of WorldSkills International
October 2017
Rercognition
for outstanding contribution in role as an Expert for Web Design and Development at the 44th WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Organizing Committee of China International Skills Competition
June 2017
Recognition for participation
as Web Design and Development Expert in China International Skills Competition 2017
Director of the National Agency for Education Development
April 2017
Honors
for participation as Head of Jury in Young Professionals’ Contest SkillsLatvia 2017 in Web Development proffesion
Prime Minister of the Republic of Latvia
March 2017
Diploma
for excellent candidate preperation for web development in EuroSkills 2016 competition
Minister of Education and Science of the Republic of Latvia
December 2016
Honor
for the professional support given to the award-winning contestant during the preparation and competition and for representing Latvia in the jury of Web Design and Development profession at the Euroskills 2016 European Young Professionals’ Contest
President of WorldSkills Europe
December 2016
Certificate
for role as Expert in Web Development representing Latvia in the fifth EuroSkills Competition in Goetheburg, Sweden