Anton Pugachevsky
Career Summary
Highly motivated senior JavaScript developer with a passion for clean code, innovation, and customer centricity. Eight years of hands-on development experience, as well as mentoring and leadership experience in fast-paced insurance, ecommerce, finance, and education sectors.
Skills and Strengths
Day-To-Day Comfort
Languages & Technologies: JavaScript, ES2015/ES6, Node.js, HTML, JSON
Frameworks: Dojo Toolkit
Testing Tools: Karma, Jasmine, Mocha, Cucumber, Sinon.js
Analytics: Heap Analytics, ClickTale
A/B Testing: Adobe Marketing Cloud, Adobe Target
CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo
Source Control: Git, Bitbucket, Rational Team Concert (RTC)
Build Tools: Webpack, Babel
CMS: WordPress, SquareSpace
Methodologies: Scrum, Agile, Scaled Agile (SAFE)
User Experience: UX Usability Research, Journey Mapping, Design Thinking
Additional Knowledge
Languages & Technologies: CSS, Java, PHP, Perl, VBScript
Frameworks: React.js, Redux, jQuery, .NET
CI/CD: Jenkins, Bamboo
Build Tools: Webpack, Babel
CMS: WordPress, SquareSpace
Database: MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle
Networking: Cisco Networking (Previously CCNA Certified)
Work History
Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston, MA, Senior Software Developer, 06/2012-Present
Lead a new five person development team through a payment page redesign project to create a best-in-class payment solution in a highly collaborative environment. Redesign improved checkout rate by 20% and lowered call center costs.
Mentored eight new team members on JavaScript coding practices and the Dojo framework.
Created sophisticated Heap Analytics dashboards to track performance of tests delivered to market.
Fostered culture of whole-team collaboration and pair-programming to improve speed to market and code quality.
Actively participated in company hackathons - created a Feedback Collector module to gather feedback from customers, as well as a Slack chatbot to provide test data on demand.
Lead a test automation improvement committee to address developer pain points as well as business awareness of test coverage.
Consistently challenged the status quo to find better solutions to challenges the organization faced.
Evaluated new technologies such as React.js vs Vue.js.
Conducted hiring interviews to obtain talent for the Boston tech hub.
Hosted several workshops during the customer-centric agile transformation and identified several key customer and developer pain points.
Lead two cross-functional full-stack teams tasked with improving online conversion via team-grown enhancements to the flagship sales application.
Created experimental concepts working closely with the team and business partners, most concepts A/B tested successfully and increased conversion by up to 50%.
Spearheaded a platform improvement and tech debt elimination effort that reduced the number of tech debt tickets by 75%.
Key member on a team responsible for migrating flagship application to a responsive web design.
Tackled high-value improvements to the sales application as a front end lead on an experimental continuous improvement agile team working under tight deadlines.
Fidelity Investments, Merrimack, NH, Technical Intern, 06/2010-08/2011
Gathered requirements from the business stakeholders and worked independently to create a VB.NET artifact tracking application.
University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Software Engineering Intern, 10/2011-04/2012
Education
B.S. Information Technology, 2012, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
Additional Details
Prior experience in database administration, networking, enterprise systems and full stack development.
Bi-lingual, fluent in Russian.