Ali Ismayilov

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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!).

• 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

• Pass additional start arguments with environment variable - valkey-io/valkey-container/pull/41
• Recommend minimal wal_level on desktop environments - le0pard/pgtune/pull/93
• postgresql@15 and postgresql@16: Add zstd support - Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/157835
• Extract request building method - jnunemaker/httparty/pull/786
• Allow overriding migration servers - capistrano/rails/pull/168