Hello, Stranger!

I am an aspiring software engineer looking to break into the field of web and application development. I have 2 years as deployment engineer at CIBC behind my back and an internship at RBC as technical analyst. I am interested in application development because it is a rapidly growing field intertwined with great amount of innovation – possibilities to learn are almost endless.

Since I was a kid, I took interest in computers and I continue being fascinated by anything IT-related to this day. This was primary reason as to why I decided to pursue Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science which I successfully attained in 2017.

A little bit about myself: I was born in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1995 and by the age of 16 came to Toronto all by myself. Since then, I have finished High School, received my bachelor’s degree and landed my first full-time job. I am a huge sports fan – especially Toronto Raptors (obviously) and my hometown team Dynamo Kyiv (yes, you probably never heard of it). I am a big travel enthusiast – I have hitchhiked almost 1,000 km from Berlin to Slovenia. Lastly, my curiosity doesn’t end there. Just like Stephen Hawking my goal is to understand the universe. Therefore, I never stop learning. It is through endless curiosity and passion for learning, I grow as an individual.

While working with CIBC, I have grown personally and professionally immensely. I became accustomed to daily interaction with employees of various levels and skills, most notably QA and developers. I learned how to work in agile environment using variety of tools. I got accustomed to working in Unix environment, utilizing shell scripts for deployments and troubleshooting. I maintained SVN repository, Jenkins, JIRA, our SIT and UAT testing environments and databases. I learned quickly about job scheduling and automation – working with Autosys and Informatica has interested me a lot. I have worked on 2 key projects – set up of new testing environment and migration of Autosys jobs to new server.

My job at RBC has been my first experience in corporate world, and as such, it was an unforgettable one! My main responsibility was to work on reporting in excel and to provide access based on tickets submitted by users. Although the tasks might have been routine, I found ways to make this job exciting to me as I found a way to automate which access requests to approve or decline based on the fields filled out by user. This was done by exporting all tickets into csv format and then running an excel macro on the resulting output.

Work Experience


Deployment Engineer
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce


Technical Service Analyst (Intern)
Royal Bank of Canada



Education

BSc Computer Science
Ryerson University



Technological Stack



I always enjoy learning about new technologies and staying up to date in the fast-paced and innovative environment. I have invested a great amount of time to learn the backbone of front-end development – HTML, CSS and JavaScript (and its various frameworks and libraries). However, I am also interested in back-end technologies – during my time at Ryerson I have obtained background in Java and SQL. Independently, I taught myself Python, NodeJS and MongoDB. At last, Unix played a significant role in my day to day activities at CIBC.

My goal is to master both front-end and back-end to work as full-stack developer. I would love to gain more exposure to web/mobile application development, machine learning, and natural language processing. I am also looking to pursue more practical experience with React, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript. At this point in my career, I am ready to work as junior or intermediate software engineer at either end of application development.

If you want to learn more about myself, please do not hesitate to contact me. I am always open to opportunities and looking to expand my horizon.