Denys Pavlov
Full-stack software developer with cross-industry experience creating client-focused web experiences.
Front-end – Expert
- JavaScript ,
- TypeScript ,
- ClojureScript ,
- React ,
- Next.js ,
- SVG ,
- PostCSS ,
- SASS
Back-end – Expert
- Node ,
- Deno ,
- Elixir ,
- Clojure ,
- Java ,
- Go ,
- PostgreSQL ,
- Redis ,
- Solr ,
- GraphQL
Dev-Ops – Expert
- Linux ,
- NixOS ,
- Docker ,
- Kubernetes ,
- Terraform ,
- Ansible ,
- AWS ,
- Google Cloud
Interests
- Cycling ,
- Canoeing ,
- Coffee
Work Experience
Lead Developer Jun 2024 - Present
Alipes Inc. Remote
Provide the technical strategy for a fast-paced digital marketing agency.
- Lead a team of developers to deliver a high-quality, high-performance web experience.
- Develop modern CMS platofrms for clients with a focus on useability and performance.
- Implement automated testing and a CI pipeline to ensure code quality and reliability.
- Communicate with clients, strategy, and design team to ensure the technical implementation aligns with the client goals.
Full-Stack Developer / Consultant May 2016 - Present
Self Employed Remote
Crafted boutique cloud-agnostic web and e-commerce solutions, shepharding ideas through mockups, to prototypes, to full projects.
- Hit launch-day profitability while leading the technical vision for projects.
- Designed robust, secure, and compliant payment processing systems to handle 50k+ payments per month.
- Hit 100% PageSpeed scores while modernizing media-heavy legacy products and preserving existing user flows.
- Focused on mobile-first user experiences in close collaboration with stakeholders.
- Realized client's vision with high satisfaction by tailoring each solution to specific technical expertise.
- Maintained high-quality documentation for clients and future project support.
Software Developer Jun 2014 - May 2016
Hospital for Sick Children, Center for Computational Medicine Toronto, ON
Worked in an Agile team on various open-source genetic and medical databases (PhenoTips and Medsavant).
- Prototyped, designed, and developed an open-source soft-realtime storage and analysis engine for 300+ million rows of genetic information.
- Tested the feasibility of several storage back-ends, including columnar databases like Apache Drill.
- Containerized the product for improved HIPAA-compliant configuration.
- Improved multi-platform development workflow to expand the number of possible open-source contributors.
Front-end Developer Jul 2012 - May 2014
Viafoura Toronto, ON
Thrived in an early-stage startup environment, handling critical partner issues and perfecting processes and quality. Re-built the front-end for a SaaS commenting platform.
- Developed a high-performance JavaScript web experience backed by a REST API, ensuring pixel-perfect compatibility with legacy and modern browsers.
- Implemented a front-end build system for multi-target deployment.
- Improved code quality by implementing code review and testing practices, and by creating a cross-browser test suite.
Research Assistant and Developer May 2011 - Aug 2011
University of Toronto, Software Engineering Group Toronto, ON
Improve OpenOME, and open-source software requirements modeling tool built on the Java Eclipse framework.
- Implemented profiling and statistics gathering for quantitative analysis of i* domain models.
- Created a view to navigate large circular models as a tree.
Support Analyst May 2010 - Aug 2010
The Dominion of Canada General Insurance Company Toronto, ON
In a small team outside the purview of IT, assisted and automated various organizational functions using technical limited resources.
- Write VBA-script documents-applications to automate various administrative tasks in MS Office, and interface with mainframe legacy systems.
- Created a reuseable template to automate printing hundreds of rows in an Excel spreadsheet.
Intern Aug 2006 - Aug 2009
Geotab Oakville, ON
As a summer job at a hardware startup, I helped improve software, and assemble and package GPS devices.
- Prepared software for internationalization, tested new software revisions.
- Worked in an electronics manufacturing assembly line environment.
Projects
Transit Dashboard Nov 2023 - Present
Accessible Progressive Web App displaying nearby departures using Transit App's REST API.