Timothy Babych

I live in beautiful and ancient city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
My timezone is UTC+2.

Mail

Gmail tim.babych@gmail.com

Current

Freelance developer/consultant

Desired positions:

Python programmer
Web UI developer
Usability engineer

Education

BS, Kyiv Institute of Applied System Analysis

Skills

Programming in Python, Ruby, PHP, Javascript
- worked with Django, Webware, pyGTK, nose tests, selenium tests.
Using mySQL, postgreSQL, SQLite databases
Interface design
Usability testing
Valid xHTML/CSS coding
Gimping and Inkscaping to make sites look good
Leading a team

Proficiency

Linux, Ruby on Rails, UML, C++, SVN, Mercurial, XUL, XML, RPC, SOAP, shell scripting, GTK programming, COM scripting, Visual Foxpro programming

Past Experience

May 2007 — Current: Freelance developer/consultant

Lead developer in BestBedGuide (Django)
Python programmer in Philantrack (WebWare)
Site redesign for developers.org.ua

Pluron, inc. Silicon Valley — August 2006 to April 2007

Front-End Web Developer, Ruby on Rails/Ajax.

Worked on creating and polishing UI of Acunote, SCRUM-based project management system.

Created promo site for the system, including design.
Improved the look and usability of the internal system, designing many parts from scratch.
Significantly reduced page load times, factoring many helper-generated scripts into generic ones.
Solved many cryptic issues with browser compatibility.

Showcase pages:

Amnesia Creative, Australia — February 2006 to August 2006

Project Manager, responsible for EU development department of the company.

We were working on site backends for Amnesia projects, mostly promotional sites for well-known brands such as Pepsi, Sunsilk and IKEA.

Best site:

MyWingman — Promo site for Sunsilk. There was created bot chat system, automated knowledge base testing system, and KB editing.

Other projects were

general use CMS
polling statistics system
online survey system
online confession booth
and several Flash games

Innovative Marketing — September 2002 to February 2006

Progressed from Developer to Team Leader (Senior Developer) in Ukrainian office of Innovative Marketing. As such, developed complex systems for both internal and worldwide usage. The most prominent projects were:

e-Stores Mastermind

Included in-house-developed billing centre; Allowed many e-stores to share customer data and purchase details. Used XML-RPC connections and smart caching to ensure scalability and interoperability.

web-backend for win32 update system

Worked flawlessly under constantly increasing heavy traffic, used data from the above project.

Statistics system

Data warehouse that aggregated update data from several servers worldwide.

News storage

Provided editing articles in one place, allowing many sites to share common newlines.

B.A.S.I.C. education centre — August 2001 to September 2002

Teacher; HTML, PHP and SQL courses. Web-standards evangelism.

K.O.N. Publishing — September 2000 to August 2001

Visual FoxPro developer, webmaster. Created «Banks-2001» — banking database with all the data about banking system of Ukraine, Russia and Baltic countries.

Antonov design bureau — October 1999 to May 2000

Visual FoxPro developer. Participated in development of personnel department DB, created medical certificates module.

Personal

Able to work on own initiative and as part of a team.
Able to meet tight deadlines.
Solution-oriented way of thinking.
First-class analytical, design and problem solving skills.

Hobbies

History, Mozilla software localization. I am the maintainer of Ukrainian L10n.