Recent Projects
Current Project: Bitcoin Telegram e-commerce platform
2022-current; planned release: end of 2024. Working on a multi-market, multi-vendor platform designed to be accessible to buyers through their preferred messaging apps, starting with the environment of Telegram Messenger.
Sellers are able to easily join multiple markets while managing their pricing, inventory and orders from a single location on the platform.
Accepts Bitcoin and Monero as a means of payment, and TON and Bitcoin Cash will be implemented after the official launch as well.
Finzio – Financial Advisor Ranking and Matching Service
Brief. Develop a JSON-based multi-step wizard, a financial advisor ranking and matching algorithm, and a fully fledged admin console. Implement a ranking algorithm tester with a live preview, A/B testing, mailing lists, tag-based data slicing and reports.
Completion. 4 months from design to launch.
Challenges. Develop a ranking algorithm that takes multiple parameters into account and adjusts their importance in the context of each particular search run. Its capabilities exceed any currently popular financial advisory matching websites.
Technologies. Node.js, React, PostgreSQL + PL/pgSQL, Docker, Email HTML, CRM APIs, Wizards, Forms, JSON Schema, API Integration, Web Dashboards, MJML, Stripe.
Toptal Speedcoding Challenge (link)
Brief. A speed coding competition web application used to attract and recruit new talent at conferences, meetups, and online.
Completion. Initial version 2 weeks; ongoing support; new features developed every few months.
Challenges. High load; database race condition; multiple competition participants overloading servers at peak times; hackers automating bots trying to hack into the system to score higher and slow down others.
Implementation detail. Optimized for high-load; uses nginx micro-caching; uses mutexes as a fast means to prevent database transaction race conditions.
Technologies. Docker, nginx, php 7.4, Next.js, APIs, React, PostgreSQL, AST.
Devil Come Back Website (link)
Brief. A Global Wildlife Conservation’s website that covers the organization’s effort in bringing Tasmanian Devil back to mainland Australia.
Completion. 3 weeks.
Challenges. Hard deadline attached to the event. Help the client limit the scope to meet the deadline while getting a complete website that is useful for visitors.
Implementation detail. Serverless Next.js instance with lambda functions; interactive sliders; signup forms; integration with qgiv nonprofit donation platform.
Technologies. Next.js, React, Vercel (AWS), lambda functions, mailing list integration, git, qgiv, Sketch, Abstract, css animations.