Ali Ismayilov

Full Stack Developer
Groningen, Netherlands
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linkedin.com/in/aliismayilov
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github.com/aliismayilov
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Work Experience

ViaEurope

Head of Engineering
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Aug 2018 - Current
  • 2018-2021 Built accounting, last mile, conveyor belt and Android app with laser scanner integrations, while supporting the rest of the operations
  • 2021-2022 Transitioned into Head of Engineering and picked mostly projects on performance, infrastructure and warehouse operations
  • 2022-now De-facto acted as a principal engineer and barely did any people's management. Mostly, focused on PR reviews, project discussions and infrastructure projects. Migrated database from Heroku to AWS RDS and application hosting to VMs.
  • Throughout the years we've maintained our continuous deployment, sustaining 5-10 deployments on almost 10 years old codebase
  • Along the way I've helped to set up multiple teams: Internal Portal team, Client Portal team, Handheld team (1 person). The last one was going to be Infrastructure team

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Redis, Docker, Heroku, AWS (S3, RDS, Lambda, EC2, CloudFront, ELB, ECS Fargate), Pulumi

Kontist

Full Stack Javascript Developer
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Feb 2018 - Aug 2018
  • Worked at this neobank which was focused on serving freelancers and small businesses
  • Helped to maintain and add new features for the backend and the end user mobile app

Technologies:

  • NodeJS, React Native, AWS ECS

wenigermiete.de

Senior Developer
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Sep 2017 - Jan 2018
  • Contributed to the codification of German rental laws
  • Developed and refined calculation methods for rental prices, ensuring accuracy and compliance
  • Worked on the end-user-facing app and internal dashboards

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, Postgres, React, Heroku

Adjust

Frontend Team Lead
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Dec 2014 - Sep 2017
  • Built the client dashboard. Glorious times of SPA and Microservices
  • Worked closely with the product team on delivering new features

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, Postgres, AngularJS

Edools

Software Developer
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May 2014 - Sep 2014
  • Rebuilding Edools white-label education platform which provided small education institutions to sell their courses. Kinda like, Shopify for remote education providers

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, Postgres

HE:labs

Software Developer Intern
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Nov 2013 - May 2014
  • Worked at the agency specializing in rapid MVP development and supporting legacy application
  • Built multiple MVPs for real clients using Ruby on Rails
  • Worked in a highly efficient 3-person team, delivering each MVP in just 3 days from Lean Inception to design, development and deployment
  • My first introduction to Ruby on Rails

Technologies:

  • Ruby on Rails, Postgres, Heroku

Acme Corp

Software engineer
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2008 - 2013
  • Thanks for reading this far! The list is long and can be fully found on LinkedIn.
  • I’ve been doing various web/software related jobs since 18 years old. I even remember when Google Chrome was released and cross-browser HTML/CSS coding was tedious (rip IE6!).

Education

Baku State University

Bachelors Applied Mathematics
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2007 - 2011

Notable OSS Contributions

Rails

  • Make column name optional for index_exists? - rails/rails/pull/54298
  • Don't enable YJIT in development and test environments - rails/rails/pull/53746
  • Respect ActiveStorage default serving strategy - rails/rails/pull/41186
  • Support PostgreSQL DISTINCT ON [not merged yet] - rails/rails/pull/41622
  • Allow running detached app commands and follow logs by container ID - basecamp/kamal/pull/906

Misc