Andrey Kovtun

Summary of Qualifications#

Solution-oriented Lead Drupal and Vue.js Frontend developer with a wide variety of professional experiences. Passionate about top frontend technologies and everything related to the interaction between the user and the website.

What clients say about me

Work Experience#

Head of Frontend Development (remote)#

Feb 2022 — Present

Key Qualifications & Responsibilities:

• Managing and mentoring a team of up to 6 frontend developers (all seniors, 1 junior).
• Making the key decisions in the choice of frontend technologies.
• Writing project documentation.
• Planning company websites releases, tasks prioritizing.
• Improving the performance of company websites.
• Covering JavaScript apps and Vue.js applications with unit-tests.
• Covering Drupal websites with end-to-end tests.
• Creating test architecture and documentation.
• Interviewing new frontend developers.

Key Achievements:

• Assembled a well-coordinated team of frontend developers.
• Wrote documentation on projects, created templates for documenting new projects.
• Significantly improved company websites performance.
• Implemented TypeScript in Vue.js applications and covered them with unit tests.
• Launched 3 e-commerce and 1 product websites.

Lead Frontend Developer (remote)#

Sep 2021 — Feb 2022

Key Qualifications & Responsibilities:

• Mentoring a team of 4 frontend developers (3 seniors, 1 junior).
• Code reviews of frontend developers.
• Planning company websites releases, tasks prioritizing.
• Creating the architecture of re-usable Vue applications for e-commerce.

Key Achievements:

• Implemented a framework for creating landing pages and e-commerce sites using Drupal Layout Builder, where clients could design their own pages to sell products.
• Created reusable Vue.js apps for e-commerce: Facet Search, Autocomplete Search, Product Sliders and many more. This allowed company's clients to increased sales, and greatly improved sites performance.
• Launched 3 large e-commerce websites.

Senior Frontend Developer (remote)#

Jan 2018 — Sep 2021

Key Qualifications & Responsibilities:

• Mentoring a frontend team (2 junior and 3 middles).
• Creating a framework to build landing pages on Drupal Paragraphs.
• Creating and supporting client's websites.

Key Achievements:

• Page design framework allowed the marketing team to build their own landing pages, saving web developers time and significantly increased company sales.
• Created more than 20 websites: corporate, e-commerce, landing pages.

Freelance Full-stack Work (remote)#

2007 — Dec 2017

Worked with various technologies: Drupal, Wordpress, PHP, MySQL, Server Administration, Design, UX, etc.

Education#

Ukrainian State Academy of Railway Transport#

Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Microprocessor Control Systems 1996-2001

Languages#

• Russian (native)
• Ukrainian (native)
• English (fluent)

Key Skills#

• Experience in Drupal 7–10.
• Developing Drupal themes and starter themes from scratch.
• Advanced Paragraphs and Layout builder techniques.
• Drupal CLI: Drush, Drupal Console.
• Building Vue.js applications and integration with Drupal.
• Building API endpoints with the Drupal JSON:API module and Drupal Views.
• Writing technical documentation.
• Experience in using collaboration tools like Github, Gitlab, Jira, Slack, Trello.
• Languages: PHP, JavaScript (ES2015+), TypeScript, CSS (Sass, PostCSS), HTML.
• JavaScript Frameworks: Vue.js, Nuxt, React, Next.
• CSS Frameworks: Bootstrap, Zurb Foundation, Tailwind, Bulma etc.
• Tools: Git, Vite, Webpack, Gulp, Npm, Yarn, Composer.
• Static sites generators, SSR: Eleventy, Jekyll, Nuxt, Next.
• Testing tools: Vitest, Jest, Vue Test Utils, Nuxt Test Utils, Nightwatch, Playwright.
• Graphics Software: Inkscape, Gimp, Figma, Adobe Suite.

Memberships#

Drupal Association Member

Hobbies#

• Reading books
• Listening music
• Playing guitar
• Photography
• Knowledge management