Career

Vaimo

Magento 2 development.

• Senior Backend Developer

  Apr 2025 — Present · 1 yr 8 mos

• Engineering Competence Lead(Engineering Manager)

  May 2024 — Sep 2026 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  Serve as Engineering Competence Lead for the People Team, focusing on engineering skill development, career growth, knowledge sharing, and building a culture of trust, effective communication, and continuous improvement.

  Lead a tribe of 5 Senior and Pre-Senior Engineers, providing coaching, career guidance, performance support, and development planning. Support promotion processes by identifying potential career directions, setting clear growth and performance goals, and monitoring progress. Help engineers transition between technology areas and stacks, including moves between DevOps and Development, by identifying skill gaps and supporting their development path.

  Drive organizational knowledge-sharing activities, coaching and mentoring initiatives. Support conflict resolution, monitor engineering utilization and KPIs, and facilitate effective communication between engineers, teams, and management.

  Key results

  • Led and supported a tribe of 5 Senior and Middle+ Engineers through career and professional development.
  • Supported promotion processes by defining career directions, development plans, growth goals, and performance expectations.
  • Successfully supported engineers transitioning between technology areas and engineering stacks.
  • Organized and facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions to improve cross-team technical knowledge and collaboration.
  • Organized and facilitated knowledge-sharing sessions to improve cross-team technical knowledge and collaboration.
  • Provided continuous coaching and mentoring focused on both technical and personal growth.
  • Supported conflict resolution and improved communication within and across teams.
  • Monitored utilization and KPIs, helping identify risks and areas for improvement.
  • Contributed to a culture of trust, transparency, feedback, and continuous development.
  • Helped align individual career development with engineering and business needs.

• Specialist Backend Developer

  Feb 2022 — Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Valantic (ISM)

We develop solutions in the areas of e-commerce for customers from Europe and the US and work in the field of e-learning

• Senior Magento Developer

  Mar 2020 — Feb 2022 · 2 yrs

  Senior Magento 2 developer for European and US e-commerce clients. Led the technical side of feature delivery, upgrades and integrations, and supported junior developers.

  Key results

  • Led development of Magento 2 projects.
  • Built Magento 2 projects from scratch, from architecture and setup through development and launch.
  • Designed and built complex, well-architected Magento customizations, including custom modules and integrations, that met client-specific business requirements.
  • Carried out Magento platform upgrades on heavily customized, high-load projects, keeping stores stable and on supported versions.
  • Made performance improvements that sped up storefronts and improved the shopping experience.
  • Worked with Magento Cloud (Adobe Commerce Cloud) for deployments and environment management.

• Magento Developer

  Oct 2015 — Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  Backend Magento developer building and supporting projects on Magento 1 and Magento 2 (CE/EE), using Docker, Git and Nginx.

  Key results

  • Developed and supported Magento 1 and Magento 2 (CE/EE) stores for clients in the Netherlands and the wider NL/EU market
  • Took part in the move from Magento 1 to Magento 2 projects.
  • Adopted a Docker-based local environment
  • Maintained live stores with uptime, support response, bug-fix turnaround.

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• Freelancer

  Feb 2006 — Oct 2015 · 9 yrs 9 mos

  I have developed a wide range of websites using PHP, MySQL, Jquery, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Woocommerce, Drupal, Smarty, Opencart including sites for startup companies and small businesses.

  Key results

  • Successfully completed projects for international clients across a wide range of industries, maintaining strong client satisfaction and repeat business on Upwork
  • Developed and launched websites using WordPress, Magento, WooCommerce, Drupal, OpenCart, and custom PHP/MySQL solutions
  • Built eCommerce storefronts and integrations for small business clients, contributing directly to client revenue growth
  • Established early expertise in Magento, which became the foundation of a specialised eCommerce career trajectory

UACODERS

Our team provide full-stack software development of web, mobile, tv and embedded applications. We have experience in PHP, Perl, Ruby, Java, Javascript, Dart, ActionScript development. We may build Your site using Drupal, Wordpress or Jekyll. For backends we can use Ruby On Rails, Sinatra, Mojolicious, Yii2, Symphony2 or Laravel with SQL or No SQL databases. For frontends we can use JQuery, AngularJS, Ionic and many other frameworks and tools. We can easy mix different products into single system to achieve your product goal.

• Web Developer

  Feb 2005 — Oct 2015 · 10 yrs 9 mos

  Development websites and internet services using cms/cmf, php frameworks and custom classes.

  Key results

  • Delivered web development projects using PHP frameworks, custom classes, and leading CMS platforms
  • Built and maintained internet services for a variety of business clients across multiple sectors