Ilia Lobsanov - Senior Software Engineer

I have been writing software professionally since 2000, and specializing in Ruby since 2010. My experience is backend oriented, but I can also work on the front-end, with recent experience in Hotwire, React, and Tailwind CSS.
➡️ I’m currently looking to join a product company that uses Ruby on Rails.

ilia@lobsanov.com
Github: https://github.com/nurey

Experience

Carbide Secure (January 2022–February 2024)

Senior Software Developer - fully remote

  • Enhanced a B2B SaaS cybersecurity compliance platform by developing and deploying new features across the full stack, reporting directly to the CTO
  • Boosted team productivity by integrating Tailwind CSS, Hotwire, and Gettext into the development workflow
  • Streamlined the onboarding process with the implementation of Github Codespaces, reducing setup time for new hires
  • Created and maintained comprehensive documentation for onboarding, continuous integration, development best practices, and testing procedures
  • Developed a ChatGPT-style customer support agent utilizing OpenAI’s API, improving customer interaction and support efficiency
  • Served on the culture committee, driving initiatives to enhance employee engagement and satisfaction

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, JavaScript, TypeScript, Stimulus

Zoocasa (October 2014–December 2021)

Senior Software Developer

  • Built RESTful APIs using Ruby on Rails that served data to the JavaScript front-end with tens of thousands of unique daily users
  • Scaled the platform to support sustained growth of daily users and data
  • Developed a CRM system to manage leads for realtors and customer support

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Redis, ElasticSearch, Kubernetes, AWS EKS, AWS Lambda

Bitmaker (July 2015–March 2016)

  • Taught web development in a 9 week bootcamp program
  • Developed teaching resources
  • Developed an online learning platform

Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, JavaScript

Quandl (February 2012–August 2012)

Chief Technology Officer

  • Built a financial data platform to secure first round of financing
  • Responsible for architecture, coding, resourcing and mentoring developers
  • Acquired by Nasdaq

Ruby on Rails, Redis, PostgreSQL, Solr, Sphinx, Bootstrap, jQuery

Freelance Software Developer, Consultant (January 2000–October 2014)

Past clients include:

  • Plumtales, a social media analytics firm in Toronto
    • Developed social media aggregation and analytics platform
    • Grew and mentored the technical team
  • Enginuity Group, a real estate research firm in Toronto
    • Developed hoodq.com, an open-data based search engine to gather street level information on real estate properties
  • Interaxon, developer of Muse meditation headband in Toronto
    • Ideate and implement applications for Thought Controlled Computing
    • Implement demo for patent-pending EmoType technology presented at LeWeb Paris 2012
  • Nascent, a mobile app development consultancy
    • Developed an iphone app to facilitate mobile payments
  • Shouldice Stone, a supplier in the Canadian construction industry
    • Designed and developed an iPhone app (Objective-C)
  • FlightNetwork.com, a leading Canadian travel agency
    • Designed and developed an iPhone app (Objective-C)
  • Bluesocket, maker of enterprise wireless access gateways, acquired by Adtran
    • Designed and developed UI components, full stack frameworks, billing integration with third-party payment gateways
    • Demonstrated ability to adopt a legacy system and then stabilize, maintain, refactor and modernize it with a continuous integration framework (early days of CI/CD using Hudson)
    • Integrated third party client scanning SDK (Opswat OESIS)
  • Propertyshark.com, acquired by Yardi Systems
    • Pioneered online real estate research in New York City and continental US with transfer data on 20 million properties
  • Rogers Cable
    • Designed and developed distributed network fault management system using Perl, Oracle, Spectrum (SSAPI) and SNMP
  • MPL Communications
    • Developed award-winning financial news site, AdviceForInvestors.com.

Projects

Budgetr

Developed an expense tracking web application, using Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React. This tool allows budget-conscious consumers to keep tabs on their credit card spending and assign each transaction to a category. A rudimentary demo is linked below. As this is something used on a weekly basis for the last 3 years, albeit by one user only, this project is alive and well, and a lot of features are in the backlog.
➡️ Demo
➡️ Github repo

Propertycloud.ca

Designed and developed a subscription-based web application (Ruby on Rails) that allows both realtors and home buyers to save time by accessing curated listing information on their mobile devices. Besides saving time, the realtor has the benefit of a customized, ‘designed’ QR code and custom URL for each listing. This went into production in 2011 and saw a large local real estate brokerage as a client. It was shelved a year later, due to professional commitments: all the founders, including myself, had full-time jobs that took precedence.

Disclosed.ca

Conceived and implemented a web application (Python/Django on Google App Engine) to track government spending on procurement contracts amounting to millions of data points. Appointed to the Advisory Board at VisibleGovernment in 2010 and attended conferences to raise awareness of government transparency and open data.
➡️ Github repo


Last updated on June 14, 2024