Aza Broflovski

Designing scalable and efficient software solutions. Mentoring and developing engineering teams. Driving technical innovation and best practices.

We strategically migrated our project from Angular to Vue, achieving significant improvements and optimizations.

At the time, Nuxt 3 was still unstable, so I implemented a custom Vue SSR solution using Vite. Once Nuxt 3 reached a stable release, we successfully transitioned to it.

Our team has done a lot of work, I have reached the limit of my development. I decided to take some time off and discover new opportunities elsewhere.

Before I left, I documented everything, found a replacement for my role and for some time, supported the project and helped my replacement as the entry threshold was high.

The senior developer left the company, then I took over the web projects (despite the fact that I was new, he entrusted me with this honor)

Development and support of an e-commerce platform. Implementation of new features, automation of business processes.

I initiated the implementation of online telephony for a call center and established real-time call management in the admin panel using WebSocket and WebRTC technologies, tailored for call center operations.

Additionally, I developed a JavaScript library with a unified interface to facilitate interaction with various telephony systems, which I am considering releasing as open source.

I also engineered a migrator tool to enable the use of Vue.js components within an Angular.js environment, as part of a broader project to transition from Angular.js to Vue.js version 2.6.

My work further extended to automating warehouse and accounting processes.

Moreover, I was responsible for setting up and configuring continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems.

Part of my duties also included writing comprehensive technical documentation.

This is my first job in the office, I got a job as an assistant to a senior developer, I refactored existing code, implemented small features, were closing a technical debt, helped migrate from Angularjs to Vue.js.

After gaining experience, as I got older I needed money and a job, the latter was difficult, because I had no work experience, because of which I was not hired, and in my country no one wanted junior devs, I went freelance and did work for pennies, there was no choice, I had to get into several real projects and gain commercial experience.

It was a difficult period, they paid little, but you had to work and eat, somehow I got myself a more powerful computer, all the money I earned I invested in myself and improving the conditions of studying my field.

During this time I acquired new knowledge, studied web frameworks such as Angular, React and Vue (spoiler: eventually chose vue as the main framework, personally for me, it solved my ui tasks better than others and faster).

Wordpress was a lot, but at some point I got acquainted with Laravel and Symfony, after which I gradually started to abandon Wordpress, and began to study more deeply the backend, the web in general.

There was an attempt from my home project (news site) to put it into production and earn on advertising (Google Adsense / Yandex).

No, this is not the story of a mega successful project, I managed to earn $64 dollars, which I could not withdraw, because there was a limit, the minimum you can withdraw $100, to be honest, at that time I was no longer interested in money, I got an interesting and invaluable experience, it was the most important thing.

At that time I had enough knowledge to realize my ideas.

I did not reinvent the wheel, on the backend I knew only PHP, so I took Wordpress, wrote my own theme with blackjack and ...

Parsed news from different sites (indicated the authors and the original). It was a kind of news feed from different sites (ala Google News).

At some point, I was contacted by the company Unitel (Beeline), they offered cooperation, I published their news, and they in their social networks placed links to their news, indicating my news site. They invited me to their office and we agreed on it there. I was 17 years old at the time and it was funny.

I excelled in learning web development, mostly writing the client side of the web, and then the moment came and I realized it was time to learn the server side.

I chose PHP as a server-side language because of its popularity, large community and the availability of cool CMS (Wordpress, Drupal, Joomla) and frameworks like Symfony or Laravel.

I spent a lot of time reading, watching videos on YouTube. Special thanks to Sorax channel (Artem Greenberg) - he became the source of my inspiration and interest in learning new things. His methodology of teaching JavaScript laid a solid foundation for my further professional development.