Ilya Kremer, Full-stack Web Developer

Working on the main platform (v1) where clients configure and build their info.link pages:

• Enhanced some modules functionality (e.g., allowed opening links in full-screen dialogs).
• Implemented new features such as entity removal.
• Made minor design improvements.

Working on the main platform (v2):

• Rewrote the entire application from scratch, improving its structure, functionality, and maintainability.
• Enhanced app design, including the customer-facing pages.
• Improved search functionality.
• Implemented support for multiple languages and regions.
• Developed a robust versioning system using a Draft/Published/History model.
• Reworked the /new page for improved usability, structure and maintainability (easier to configure from the admin dashboard/Payload CMS).
• Reworked the settings page, so it reduced the need to contact support.
• Set up GitHub Actions for Playwright tests.
• As lead developer, proactively addressed minor design issues, visual inconsistencies, and responsiveness across the UI to deliver a more cohesive and polished user experience compared to the previous platform version.

Working on the the info.link public website:

• Applied best practices for SEO and geo-targeting, resulting in significant performance improvements confirmed by internal analytics, Peec.ai audits, and hands-on testing.
• Polished and dynamic sitemap.xml with priority weights.
• Optimized meta tags for each page.

Working on my.bonify.de main web app, as well as on SCHUFA Basisscore, Finanzmanager, KYC and web-marketing (bonify.de/* pages) web apps, and also on SSO pages:

• Worked on the registration flow redesign.
• Led the process of creating the bank transactions consent/bank account deletion pages and the related functionality.
• Contributed complex changes to the Dashboard, Profile, FinFitness and other pages.
• Actively suggested improvements to the proposed design.
• Actively proposed and carried out the tasks related to the design flaws, wording, UX issues (accessibility, bundle size, performance and stability).
• Promoted better coding practices among the teammates.
• Contributed to Android and iOS apps.
• Worked on the infrastructure improvements: SonarQube integrations and various upgrades.
• Worked on ConvertFlow and Landingi integrations.

Working on Foodora, Foodpanda, Mjam, Yemeksepeti websites:

• Worked on Planned Order functionality.
• Worked on Cart page functionality:
  • Rider Tips component;
  • Cutlery widget, and many more.
• Worked on Checkout page functionality:
• Added powerful e2e tests (Cypress) for Cart and Checkout pages.

During my tenure at DH I proactively referred four engineers from my network who were hired and successfully passed probation.

Working on back-office applications:

• Heavily contributed in a newly created web app for configuring rules for automatic issues resolution (rider issues, restaurant issues, etc.).
• Contributed to useHurrier — a huge web app for manual issues processing.
• Participated in rewriting useHurrier with a new stack and significant UI/UX improvements:
  • Google Maps functionality;
  • Grid virtualization, and many-many more.

Avito is the biggest classified ads website and app in Russia launched in 2007. There are typically over 100M of active ads at the moment and hence billions of hits per day. It's estimated to be in the Top-10 visited websites in the country.

Working on www.avito.ru and m.avito.ru websites (implementing the given functionality on both desktop and mobile):

• IM application features:
  • Sending a CV as a message;
  • Searching through possible attachments.
• Safe deal & shipping service features:
  • Created a widget for ordering and implemented all corresponding IM functionality (system messages) from scratch.
  • Created corresponding back-office tools from scratch (claims resolution).
  • Created a customer service for making failed delivery claims from scratch (customer-facing).
  • Worked on the related functionality on the main, search and ad (item) pages.

Published a post about visiting the FullStack 2017 conference held in London on a company’s behalf to promote corporate culture.

• Worked on BidSwitch UI (my.bidswitch.net interface for customers).
• Worked on the u-Workflow project.

Contributed to large-scale greenfield projects from initial architecture through to production launch:

• Budget System Info website.
• A custom SPA for communication between the Minister of Economy and their secretaries.
• Perm Budget System Info website.
• Perm Krai Budget System Info website.

• Worked on multi-step forms for https://gosuslugi.ru.
• Developed helpful FreeMarker macros (basically a library for creating forms).
• Administrated the server running the main app.

My personal, wedding-focused photography website — a revival of a project I first created in 2010–2011 using PHP, MySQL, jQuery, and its plugins — prettyPhoto (Lightbox clone) and Lazy Load.

A pet project of mine that went public. Here one can prepare for several naturalization exams and also use — in my opinion — the most well-designed, precise and detailed German salary calculator ever made.

CLI utility for operating Elgato Key Lights. Such a powerful tool for a less than 10 kB dist file!

A plagiarism detection hack service for students (probably the bad ones).

Students could pay here for an artificial increase of a document’s uniqueness rate in order to bypass the plagiarism detection system (which was not working fairly and many universities were abusing it).

Dropdown plugin for jQuery supporting dozens of features.

Back in time my former manager from AT Consulting offered me some freelance for a Russian Post online project. I created this plugin as a result of working on a web form and started to maintain it separately.

One day I saw it in use on the very famous mass media website and was super happy about that.

Master’s degree plus a preparation course.

Computer science:

• C/C++, including Inter-Process Communication (Linux).
• Fortran: parallel programming (both MPI & OpenMP).
• Java (desktop apps only).
• POSIX Shell, GNU, Virtualization.

Math:

• Understanding why √2 is irrational.
• Understanding why the area of a circle is πr².
• And even more than that!