Programming languages

C#, F#, C++, PowerShell, Java, Scala, R, SQL and NoSQL

Specialties

• Web applications: ASP.NET MVC, ORM
• Functional programming using F#, Scala, Spark and Akka
• Parallel, concurrent and asynchronous data processing
• Machine learning, data mining, Intranet and Internet search
• Unit and integration testing, continuous integration
• Experience with Windows and Linux/UNIX platforms and Docker software virtualization containers

Education

National Technical University of Ukraine ‘Kyiv Polytechnic Institute’ — masters degree, Computer-aided Design Systems

Certifications and MOOCs

• Certified ScrumMaster by Scrum Alliance 2012
• C# 4.0 by Brainbench (Transcript ID#: 10718474) 2012
• .Net 4.0 by Brainbench (Transcript ID#: 10718474) 2012
• Coursera
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Functional Programming Principles in Scala
• École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: Principles of Reactive Programming
• Stanford University: Machine Learning
• Stanford University: Mining Massive Datasets
• Johns Hopkins University: Computing for Data Analysis
• Princeton University: Algorithms, Part I and II
• The University of Melbourne: Discrete Optimization
• Stanford Online
• StatLearning: Statistical Learning *EDX
• Introduction to Big Data with Apache Spark, BerkeleyX - CS100.1x
• Scalable Machine Learning, BerkeleyX - CS190.1x
• MongoDB University
• M101P: MongoDB for Developers by 10gen Education 2013
• M102: MongoDB for DBAs Education 2013

Skills

My profile is within top 11% of all .NET/C# profiles on StackOverflow

Community and Open Source contribution

• StackOverflow and Programmers.StackExchange
• GitHub and GistHub snippets
• Aspect-Oriented Programming by examples for #KievAltNet
• GitHub repositoty
• Metaprogramming in .NET Microsoft® “Roslyn” CTP for #MSSwit 2013
• Live video from MSSwit’2013 conference
• GitHub repositoty
• Metaprogramming in .NET “Roslyn” CTP and Nemerle for #hotcode
• Recording at YouTube
• GitHub repositoty
• Sample: ScriptCs setup
• Sample: Scripting: eval()-like for C# using Roslyn and ScriptCS
• Sample: Search for return null; yield return null;, return default(object); and equivalents
• Architectural Validation in .Net for #ItBrunch
• Recording at YouTube
• GitHub repositoty
• Property-based testing using FsCheck for F# and C# for #KievAltNet
• FsCheck samples
• GitHub repositoty
• Actor-based Concurrency with F# and Akka.NET for F# User Group and .NET Framework Day
• Samples: Akka.NET actors using F#
• Introduction to Machine Learning using R and F# with examples from Kaggle competitions for User Group
• Verification of smart meters in IoT environment #QAFest 2015
• Docker for developers

Professional Experience

Web applications, Internet search, image processing and more since 2002…

• Itera.no, Ukraine-Norway
  • 2014-now — Machine Learning and Big Data proof of concepts for the Scandinavian market. Among them:
  • remote electricity meters calibration for energy traders;
  • aggregation and search based on social networks and other open sources of information for business development needs.
  • 2011-now — Lønnsforhandling Modul: web application for salary negotiations between Norwegian employers and labor unions
  • 2011 — Snowball: an objective of the project was to provide viral advertisement framework for social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare.
  • 2009-2010 — involvement in different nearshoring projects
• Luxoft, Ukraine
  • 2007-2008 — ProQuo: junk mail subscription/unsubscription automation web based application
  • 2006-2007 — Scoop: social oriented Internet-scale people search based on different open sources of information
• Miratech, Ukraine
  • 2005-2006 — outsourcing as is, however, I had met great people while was working there
• DevZeroG, Ukraine (now Adstream)
  • 2003-2005 — UK-based company, a global leader in productivity solutions for the print and media industries. My first experience with eXtreme Programming
• 2002-2003 — Work at several small companies while studying at University

Interests

I have a computer since five y.o., thus both my work and my hobbies somehow connected with computers. Take an actively part at Manning Early Access Program and local .NET, Java, Big Data and Machine Learning events

Contacts

• Twitter @AkimBoyko
• LinkedIn