Timothy Babych
I live in beautiful and ancient city of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. My timezone is UTC+2.
tim.babych@gmail.com
Current
Python developer.
Desired positions:
- Project Manager
- UI designer
- Usability expert
- Software architect
Education
BS, Kyiv Institute of Applied System Analysis
Mastery
- PHP — 4 and 5
- SQL — mySQL4
- JavaScript — AJAX magic, DOM and crossbrowser issues
- Python — favourite scripting language
- CSS2 — and many IE CSS related quirks
- xHTML 1.0
Proficiency
Linux (favourite OS), Ruby on Rails, UML, C++, cvs, svn, XUL, XML, RPC, SOAP, shell scripting, GTK programming, COM scripting, Visual Foxpro programming
Past Experience
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.com, 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.
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
Movies, travelling, blogging, Ukrainian presidential elections

