Resume of Chris Svajlenka

Location
  • Remote (preferred)
  • Longview, WA
Phone
503-307-4566
Email
chris(at)svajlenka.com
Objective

I am seeking a position that utilizes my tech-heavy skillset to guide engineering teams to success.

I like programming. I strive to ensure my code is efficient and effective in its implementation.

I have a high affinity for optimizing and maintaining networks and systems.

Education:
Portland State University
Wake Technical Community College
Experience:
Aries Solutions
  • Lead Engineer, Solution Architect
    • Developed software architecture diagrams, API contracts, and contributed via hands-on code.
    • Implemented the commercetools platform on several projects: christiecookie.com sportsmansguide.com as well as contributing to Aries' accelerator
    • Provided commercetools best practices advice to clients
CommerceHub
  • Sr. Software Engineer II
    • Assisted the company in unifying their product offerings.
    • Contributed to new features of the CommerceHub platform.
    • Worked using Rust and Typescript in several serverless applications.
commercetools
  • Backend Engineer
    • Contributed to the commercetools platform by building new features and maintaining existing ones.
    • Worked on the analytics dashboard and the audit log features.
  • Engineering Manager
    • Led a team of six engineers in the Professional Services department.
    • Successfully managed projects, with most being on-time and on-budget.
    • Grew the team from just one to six members in under a year.
    • Involved with hiring, process implementation, and engineer mentoring
  • Sr. Software Engineer
    • Contributed significantly to winning the company's second-largest contract by building a proof of concept.
    • Led the implementation of a critical application, collaborating with various stakeholders.
    • Demonstrated ability to scale applications to handle over 100,000 concurrent users.
    • Developed microservices to facilitate client onboarding onto the commercetools platform.
    • Created a feature allowing easy configuration and deployment of microservice-based integrations.
    • Utilized React/Redux for frontend, JavaScript ES6 via Node for backend, and Kubernetes for deployment management.
Teamworks
  • Sr. Web Developer
    • Led the port of Teamworks' back-end to a Python REST API using the pyramid framework.
    • Implemented a code review process using Crucible.
    • Lead the development group to adopt Git and a feature branch workflow.
    • Aided in server configuration and deployment processes, such as enabling distributed session storage and configuring a deployment script.
    • Involved with configuration of Jenkins, as well as the spinning of up new nodes on AWS EC2.
    • Assisted in hiring, and onboarding new developers.
Metal Toad Media
  • Team lead
    • Provided mentoring and technical direction to the developers on my team.
    • Conducted one-on-one meetings with the developers to help identify stressors, set goals with the developers, and continued to provide development support as needed.
  • Sr. Web Developer
  • Web Developer
    • Developed code for various clients, mostly Drupal sites.
    • Collaborated on a large HTML 5 JavaScript application, targeted for mobile devices as well as television set top boxes and smart TVs.
    • Worked on custom Django apps.
    • Aided in Puppet configuration and adding new puppet agents.
Ibex Data Systems
  • Web Developer
    • Developed and maintained custom PHP codebases for large clients.
    • Developed jQuery plugins.
    • Discovered and patched various security concerns as outlined by OWASP
DevelopmentNow.com
  • Web Developer
    • Mobilized websites and built social media sites.
    • Worked with Dolphin, Social Engine, Buddypress, as well as custom-coded solutions.
    • Performed minor systems administration requests for a few clients.
FileFront.com
  • Director of Technology
    • Oversaw a team of web developers and a system administrator.
    • Ensured security and stability of the FileFront network.
    • Upgraded network services for improved security.
    • Managed approximately 200 servers running various services, primarily on Linux or FreeBSD.
    • Collaborated with the system administrator to set up new systems, from OS installation to service configuration.
  • Senior Web Developer
  • Web Developer
    • Worked within a team to maintain and enhance filefront.com, a top 100 alexa site at the time.
    • Updated legacy code, implemented memcached setup, added new features, and developed test cases.
    • Provided QA for team members' code and managed rollouts to the live site.
    • Involved in infrastructure maintenance, such as server management, database recovery, and hardware upgrades.