Val Kornea's Résumé

Full-time (remote). Johnson & Johnson Hackathon project backend. Node with TypeScript, docker containers, unit tests (mocha with chai), Azure cloud deployment pipelines, git

Full-time (in office). CMS migration to Wordpress, YouTube uploader microservices, legacy system enhancements. WordPress (PHP), Java, Python, docker containers, AWS cloud (ECS Fargate, Lambdas, SQS, SNS), Clickability Velocity, Agile Methodology, git

Personal project. Created in 2001, rewritten in PHP 7 and migrated to AWS in 2017. PHP, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, AJAX, AWS (EC2, SES, SQS, SNS), git.

Personal project. Mailing list for intellectuals. Interacts with AWS SES (Simple Email Service), parses received emails from source code, rewrites emails for re-sending, handles bounces, and properly uses DNS records and other methods to get around spam filters. LAMP (PHP 7, custom MVC), jQuery AJAX, git.

Full-time (remote). Primary programmer, the other two tech team members were the sysadmin and the project manager. Transcript Associates clients upload enormous video files to be transcribed, often larger than browser upload limits. I created an advanced cross-browser uploader (IE9+ and all evergreen browsers) which lets clients upload any number of files of any size, interrupt uploads and later resume them, as well as submit multiple new jobs in parallel. Also comprehensively refactored Transcript Associates system—implemented a custom MVC framework, switched from MooTools to jQuery, eliminated numerous bugs, and produced admin tools such as a sophisticated Request Work page for transcribers and a robust new Users administration page. LAMP (PHP 5, custom MVC), jQuery AJAX, git.

Full-time (in office). Senior programmer and mentor on a team of 6 programmers. This was a startup, and when the CEO failed to acquire a second round of funding when expected, they had to let go all programmers in hopes of keeping their doors open as long as they could. When I left, the CTO spontaneously volunteered the opinion that I am a great programmer, citing my good judgment in speaking out against using Doctrine when I first joined the team, saying that's exactly the kind of judgment they need. LAMP (PHP 5, Zend), jQuery, git.

Full-time (in office). Senior team member on a team of 5 to 7 programmers. Their store was written in Flash, I rewrote it from scratch in LAMP using custom MVC architecture, jQuery AJAX, git.

Full-time (in office). The owner and sysadmin had designed the system in the abstract and then hired me to write the code. When it was done, he volunteered the opinion that I am a great programmer. LAMP (CakePHP), jQuery, git.

Full-time (in office). Regular team member on a team of 5 to 8 programmers. Delivery.com adds restaurant menus to its web interface and sends faxes to restaurants with orders. Conceived and created the first version of the DB class to facilitate DB interactions. Created an automated system programmatically calling Google AdWords API to create new ad campaigns targeted by both keyword and geography as we relentlessly expanded into new cities (our use case was more complex than Google's system was designed to accommodate at the time, so part of this was programmatically managing multiple AdWords accounts). LAMP (Zend), JavaScript, svn.

Part-time (hybrid). LAMP, CSS, HTML.