Leonid Danilov - Ad Tech Senior Software Engineer

Amsterdam, NL (HSM Visa)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/infonautica

TypeScript, JavaScript, NodeJS, SQL, PostgreSQL, React, Angular, Vue, Kubernetes, Docker, REST, GraphQL, WebSockets, RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Pug/Jade, HTML, CSS, Jest, Google Cloud Platform, Engineering Management, Leadership, Mentoring, Systems Design, Microservices, DDD, Testing, Complexity Management

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Work History

Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Storyteq.com | 2024 – Present (1 year)

  • Unified separate major products into a single cohesive user experience, contributing to company goals
  • Actively participated in improving hiring process and conducted numerous technical interviews to build strong teams
  • Led OKRs implementation process, ensuring clear goals and measurable deliverables
  • Continuously challenged and refined product decisions to evolve them into better outcomes for the product

Engineering Manager / Senior Full-Stack Engineer at Smartly.io | 2021 – 2024 (3 years 5 months)

  • Delivered a huge and complex 5 years project in just 1 year, reaching and exceeding yearly goal
  • Led development of the project that supported multi-million partnerships with Google, Snapchat, and Pinterest
  • Optimized new ad platform adoption from 12 months to 3 months, therefore improving the ability of the business to adapt by quickly changing ad-tech world
  • Managed and mentored a team of engineers (up to 12 people) with various levels and goals
  • Coordinated cross-team delivery between 6 engineering teams by organising and conducting weekly syncs and building interconnected roadmaps where each team is a dependency of its own
  • Aligned product analytics by standardizing tools and ensuring there’s no room for error
  • Conducted many retrospectives and post-mortems leading to a better working team and product
  • Deeply participated in the most difficult and intricate projects, such as high-load ad processing
  • Refactored and structured core legacy functionality and turned it into an easily scalable and maintainable service that significantly reduced the onboarding time of new engineers

Full-Stack Engineer at SyndicateDB | 2017 – 2021 (4 years)

  • Automated seat preview generator for a 30k seat stadium of a major football, increasing conversion
  • Implemented frontend generator that optimised scalability of ERP systems by 4-10 times
  • Unified technologies and implementations across different project front-ends, aligning both underlying code and the representation in the browser, making it easier to switch engineers between projects
  • Developed a customisable real-time UI for a cryptocurrency exchange aggregator tool
  • Created an algorithm for highly complex and sophisticated rates of a major car-sharing company
  • Abstracted core functionality of car-sharing into a general fleet management system, making it suitable for a bigger range of business customers
  • Participated in the development of a custom RDBMS software for desktops

Frontend Engineer at M8Digital | 2015 – 2016 (1 year, 6 months)

  • Implemented Frontend of 20+ websites that increased conversions by an average of 200-400%
  • Integrated analytics to help understand customer behaviours and make better decisions
  • Implemented nice looking and smooth UI for non-trivial topics, such as industrial equipment

Frontend Engineer at Orvin Studio | 2014 – 2015 (1 year, 3 months)

  • Maintained more than 15 websites for various local business
  • Optimised multiple front-ends for SEO and social media by incorporating Microdata schemas