Anton Ruzhekov on a conference in 2015

Anton Ruzhekov

Software Engineer

Personal Profile

Passionate about creating meaningful, creative and profitable business solutions. Convinced anything is possible with the right team and motivation.

Interested in freelance projects with PHP, WordPress, Node.js, React, Angular, front end applications, one page applications, custom CMS solutions, complex backend processes, etc.

My passions and motivators are snowboarding, biking, Human Design and music.

I work at the init Lab hackerspace and am an active event organizer and community member.

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Work Experience

Lead Developer at Eating with the Chefs

January 2016 - September 2016

WordPress, WooCommerce, SCSS, AWS - EC2, S3 and CloudFront, Roots stack, Capistrano, Vagrant, Project Management - Trello, Slack
Project is under collaboration with CodeControl and Camplight
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Human Design Constultant

May 2015 - Present

Organize meetings and introductory lectures based on the Human Design System, consult people and companies to use Human Design and reach their goals
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Lead Developer at Chain Solutions

April 2013 - June 2015

API design, development and integration, PHP, Perl, CodeIgniter, MySQL cluster, WordPress, Linux administration, VoIP, SIP
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Software Engineer and Project Manager at Single Edition Media

February 2013 - May 2013

Symfony 1.4, Propel, Bootstrap, Blanaced Payments, Composer, Vagrant, Twig
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Ambassador at Start It Smart

August 2010 - August 2013

Promote entrepreneurship and start up thinking among young people in Bulgaria, share knowledge, experience and contacts with other club members, organize and promote events

Freelance Web Developer

2009 - Present

Full stack development with: PHP, JavaScript, WordPress, HTML/CSS. Managing projects from concept to scale. You can see them here
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Software Engineer at Collectors' Quest Inc.

August 2012 - February 2013

Symfony 1.4, Propel, WordPress, Bootstrap, Composer, Vagrant, Twig, Amazon Cloud Server, Aviary, Janrain, SEOmoz, Sphinx, Memcached
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Developer and Project Manager at Barouh and Partners

January 2011 - July 2012

Symfony 1.x, Propel, custom frontend and backend solutions, video streaming, project management

System Administrator at Technical University of Sofia

October 2009 - June 2010

I was responsible for maintaining all computer labs, administrative PCs and peripherals for the Faculty of Computer Science while I was in my last year at university.

Technical Assistant at Solytron

September 2008 - December 2009

Manage hardware consignation - laptops, desktop PCs, printers, monitors, peripherals. This was a part time job while still at university in a great team where I learned a lot about hardware, team work, sales, etc.

Key Skills

  • PHP
  • JavaScript
  • Wordpress
  • Symfony
  • CodeIgniter
  • jQuery
  • Git and GitHub
  • API development
  • API integration
  • XHTML/HTML5
  • CSS/CSS3
  • SEO
  • Perl
  • Project Management
  • Human Design System
  • Blogging/Social Media
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Photoshop

Education

Technical University of Sofia

Bachelor Software Engineering and Computer Science

C++, C#, Java, Java3D, HTML and many more

Sofia Mathematics High School

Mathematics and Computer Science with English, 1999 - 2006

We did a lot of programming starting at the age of 13. At 16 I had my first production website online for Meggle - pure HTML :)