Radoslav Gazo, B.Sc.
mailto: rgazo AT shaw DOT ca
Website: http://radogazo.com
Summary of Qualifications
- 15+ Years Experience as a Software Engineer, System Analyst with exposure to the whole SDLC including OO-Design, Programming, Testing & Documentation
- Experienced Leading Projects and Teams of Developers
- Lead the platform team at Electronic Arts; Worked as startup CTO; Worked with Companies like Hootsuite, Navarik, etc...
- Exceptional Analytical Abilities & Technical Skills with Outstanding Attention to Details
- Highly Professional and Efficient with Commitment to Customer Satisfaction and Strong Sense of Confidentiality & Ethics
Summary of Professional Skills
Technology | Length Used | Last Used |
Software Development | 15+ years | Current |
Leading Projects | 6+ years | Current |
Unit/Func Testing | 8 years | Current |
Go (Golang) | < 1 year | Current |
PHP, Symfony2, Laravel | 12+ years | Current |
JavaScript, jQuery, Vue.js, Ionic/Cordova CSS, Bootstrap3 | 12+ years | Current |
SQL, MySQL, Postgres, Oracle | 12+ years | Current |
Akamai ESI Apache Cloudstack | 2 years | Current |
Java | 4 years | 2014 (CQ5, AEM) |
UML, OOD | 10 years | Recent |
Other (C,C++,ASM,VB) | 7 years | Few years ago |
Windows | Many years | Current |
Unix/Linux | Many years | Current |
Professional Experience
Lead Software Engineer (Remote) - Multibrain - Vancouver, BC - 12/15 - Present
- Multibrain (http://multibrain.me) is a social selling platform for entrepreneurs.
- Designed and developed core components of Multibrain applications (Social notifications, CRM, User Tips, Analytics components, Mass mailer)
- Participated in development of Multibrain components like Social posting, login flows, data administration etc.
- Environment: PHP, Laravel, JavaScript/Node.js, Vue.js; Lambda AWS; Postgres;
CTO / Co-founder - SettleUp (backed by Stanley Park Ventures) - Vancouver, BC - 04/16 - 01/17
- Analyzed business requirements and formulated specifications
- Prepared work-requirements for front-end devs
- Designed and developed web application handling debt collection workflows
- Developed components communicating with Salesforce API
- Environment:Go (Golang), JavaScript/Node.js, Vue.js; Postgres; Salesforce API
Director of Engineering - 49 Research - Vancouver, BC 07/08 - 06/16
Management
- Analyzing Business Requirements and Formulating Software Specifications
- Preparing Budgets, Project Proposals and Business Contracts
- Managing a Team of Software Developers; Project Management
Software Development
- Electronic Arts:
- Developed Online Components (User profiles, Rapid development of Game websites)
- Developed Advertising and Virtual Currency Monetization Solution For a Social Network
- Analysed, Designed and Developed Online Demurrage System for a Large Canadian Oil and Gas Corporation
- Developed Data Mining Tool for SBBC (Small Business BC)
- Created a Rapid Development Framework for PHP
- Developed Custom E-Commerce Solutions
- Environment:Go (Golang), PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, CSS; SQL, MySQL, Postgres; Linux, Windows; SkinnyMVC, Symfony, Symfony2, Akamai ESI;
Lead Software Engineer - Electronic Arts - Vancouver, BC - 09/12 - 03/15
- Design and development of a new Web platform (Spark) used by other EA Pulse teams for rapid development of high-performing marketing websites
- Leading a team of developers creating the new Web platform, ensuring timely delivery of projects and following of processes
- Conducting presentations and training sessions
- Developed components for Pulse websites
- Environment: PHP, Symfony 2; JavaScript, Java (AEM - Adobe Experience Manager); JCR, MySQL, Akamai ESI language; Linux
CTO - Droppeo - Vancouver, BC 04/15 - 06/16
- Designed application architecture and implemented components of responsive Social Shopping App Droppeo.com
- Prepared specifications and planned milestones
- Managing server and cloud infrastructure
- Environment: PHP, Bootstrap 3, PCRE Regex, MySQL, Ionic / Cordova; Linux; Apache Cloudstack
Senior Software Engineer / Consultant - Hootsuite - 02/12 - 08/12
- Responsible for design, development and maintenance of Hootsuite acquired software, including http://whatthetrend.com and http://geotoko.com
- Developing components for Hootsuite Social Management Dashboard
- Environment: PHP, Zend Framework, Code Igniter; MongoDB, RabbitMQ; Linux
Founder - Favedeal - Vancouver, BC 12/11 - 08/13
- Founder of favedeal.com - a shopping wish list with universal price tracker and price history
- Analysis, software design and complete development and operation of Favedeal
- Set up Development, QA/Test and Production environments and maintaining servers
- Preparing budgets and advertising.
- Environment: PHP, SkinnyMVC, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS; SQL, MySQL, Linux, Windows;
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant - Navarik - Vancouver, BC 01/08 - 05/08
- Analysed, Designed and Developed Components and Features for Navarik Inspection - Cargo Inspection System for the Petroleum Industry.
- Conducted Product Presentations and Learning Sessions for Developers
- Environment: PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, CSS, SQL, Oracle; Apache; Linux, Windows; PHPUnit; Scrum project management;
Senior Software Engineer/Consultant - Top Producer - Vancouver, BC 03/07 - 12/07
- Responsible for Research, Design and Development of Software Solutions for the Real Estate Industry, Including Work on Top Producer Proprietary Systems
- Developed TopProducer blogs based on Wordpress MU (WPMU)
- Designed and Developed Integration Points between Various Top Producer Solutions
- Environment: PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, CSS, MySQL; ASP; SOAP, FIM; Apache (Xampp); Windows XP; FreeBSD; Team Foundation; WAST, NeoLoad;
Senior Software Engineer/Tech. Project Lead - aQuantive/Accipiter/BidClix - Vancouver, BC 06/04 - 02/07
- Managed and Performed the Design and Development of Core Components of BidClix High Traffic Ad Network (Ad Serving, Database Operations/Design, UI,Localization)
- Responsible for Setting Up Systems For a Private Label Partner (Sympatico/MSN) with an Expected Revenue of $150000/Month. Supervising and Managing a Team of 4 Developers and a Design Artist, Communicating With the Partner, Specifying and Documenting Requirements and Requests.
- Developed New Technologies Used in Internet Advertising, which include Features like Text Analysis, Live Website Modifications (on Client Side), Web-crawling and Indexing, while Maintaining Cross-Browser Compatibility (IE, Mozilla, Netscape)
- Developed New Features for a Web-Based Admin Area (customer accounts, manager accounts, developers accounts, etc)
- Provided Webserver and Database Stress Testing (CURL, Siege), Comparative Tests and Code Optimizations; Developing Unit Tests
- Environment: PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, AJAX, XML, CSS; MySQL; Apache; Linux, Windows XP, 2000, 9x; Subversion CVS
Lead Software Engineer - Onison Corp. - Vancouver, BC 07/03 - 02/04
- Provided Design and Development of Advanced Web-Applications:
- Image Director - Browser-based cross-media management tool that allows companies to share pre-press images, media files (audio/video),
documents and presentations amongst their corporate affiliates.
- Taggon content management system and Web Top Publishing
- Preeon . online page design tool
- Provided Complete Design and Development of "My Templates Write-On Webpage Editor" for Online Edit of InDesign and Quark files using XML
- Developed Image Manipulation Features for ImageDirector using JavaScript and DirectX
- Environment: PHP, JavaScript, DHTML, XML, CSS; MySQL; Apache; Visual Basic.NET; Linux, Mac OS X, Windows XP, 2000, 9x, Subversion CVS
Wireless App. Developer - Maia Mobile - Vancouver, BC 09/02 - 06/03
- Provided Software Design & Development of Several SMS Based Wireless Services with Message Master 6
- Provided Administration and Troubleshooting on Server-and Client-side
- Environment: Java, JSP, XML, HTML, JavaScript, SQL; Message Master 6.0, MS SQL Server, Apache/Tomcat Server; Windows 2000 Server
Software Engineer - Various Companies - European Union 02/98 - 04/02
- Participated as a Software Engineer on a Variety of Projects for Companies Like Siemens PSE, Microcell Communications, Minitel and the Lab of Computer Linguistics
- Developed Software Solutions: Warehouse Management System and Software for Fully Automated Storage; Software Solutions for Insurance Industry; Natural Language Recognition and Generation Software; Computer Games used in TV Competitions
- Environment: Java, JavaScript, C, C++, Assembly Language, Pascal; VSS; Oracle; Windows, Linux
Education and Training:
Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences 2000
University of St. Cyril & Method - Trnava, Slovakia
Object Oriented Analyse & Design, UML 2000
Computer Information Systems - Bratislava, SVK
JAVA Training, QM in Siemens, Siemens Development Methods 1999 - 2000
Siemens PSE - Vienna, Austria