Vasyl Zhuk

Biography

Since 2018 – DigitalPulp Inc. Senior Software Developer, Software Architect

• Development and support of internal annotation and specification tool Spectron (Phalcon, DynamoDB, AWS, S3, Jira)
• Backend development lead for websites (Drupal 8-10, WordPress, JAMStack (NextJS + Contentful)): stevens.edu, wish.org, brightfocus.org, www.pace.edu, rutgers.edu, georgetown.edu, barnard.edu, alumni.yale.edu and others.
• Current project: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation – refactoring and redesign, CRM and payment API integration, customer e-cabinet (Wagtail/Django, PostgreSQL, neo4j, Azure)

Since 2011 – National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Finance. Senior Lecturer

• Courses “Financial Modeling”, “Modeling the Behavior of Dynamic Systems” (statistical analysis, data mining, AI)

2020-2022 – MeritUp Inc. Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Software Architect

• Led development (team of 7) of FlipFam app (React Native)
• Backend architecture (FeathersJS, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Bull/PubSub, GCP, FCM), DevOps

2013-2018 – Boyle Software, Inc., Backend Lead, Senior PHP Developer

• Development and redesign of high-load websites

2011-2013 – Open Media Group, Middle PHP Developer

• Project “UA-Football“

2009-2011 – National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy”, Doctoral School, TEMPUS project “Development of best practice model Doctoral Schools for structured PhD programme implementation in Ukraine and Georgia”

• Development of online document management and educational process management system
• Junior Research Fellow

2005 – GREY Worldwide Ukraine Advertising Agency, Project Coordinator Assistant (Intern)

2004 – International Commercial Bank, Monitoring Department, Intern