Lialia Sakhno
A passionate Software Developer, advocate for lifelong learning and hard work. For me, programming is a natural extension of me. It is difficult for me to separate myself from programming and everything related to computers. I've spent the better part of my life messing around with computers and code, and even if I'd go exploring different career paths (music, photography, retail), I'd always come back to coding. Wrote my first line of code at the age of 13 (Visual Basic), later created some PHP4/MySQL websites for about a year, done a lot of computer troubleshooting for myself, friends and family. Of course, I broke loads of stuff as well... I blame curiosity.
A few years back I got a Master's degree in Information Security at the Kharkiv University of Radioelectronics. There I wrote my first programs on C++. I wrote implementations of encryption algorithms, and the culmination of my studies was the creation of my own, albeit not very complex, but working fast steganographic encryption algorithm on PHP and an analyzer of its effectiveness, which is still available as a website. While studying at the university, I found my first job on WordPress, but I quickly got bored with it and decided to learn Laravel and Vue.js. After studying Laravel, I found a job in a Ukrainian product - the International Arts Championship. In a year and a half, I learned to do everything - from setting up servers to Google optimization (the specifics of small product companies with a small budget). My next company was Sitecraft, where I worked as an outstaff for a Canadian customer for almost 4 years. During this time, I wrote many projects - complex and not so, in the team and myself. But basically all projects were custom and required constant growth as a developer.
While working at Sitecraft, I became interested in the topic of proper nutrition and wrote my own tool for monitoring nutrition and my indicators.
This summer, I finished working for Sitecraft and a Canadian customer, because they had no more suitable projects for me.
I am currently actively looking for a job.
Skills
Software development
- Languages/Technologies - PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, Laravel 5+, PostgreSQL, Git, Vue.js, Nova, DevOps, Linux, MacOS, JQuery, Docker, С++, AWS, BitBucket, Symfony 3, WordPress, non-relational databases and more...
- Fast learner - Able to grasp new concepts and technologies really quickly. During the course at Makers Academy, I chose to do team projects in (at the time) unknown languages to boost my learning ability and explore other technologies/languages.
- Debugging - Able to follow to flow of the program, read the stack trace, hunt down and exterminate any bugs. A keen eye for typos, missing keywords, etc. Although my typing is pretty accurate and the number of typos is very minimal.
- Researching - I found that gazing at the screen doesn't do much, so I've befriended Google and StackOverflow to help me get through the "I don't know" phase. Able to research, read, and make sense of any documentation.
- Problem solving - There's always a way. Pen & paper help me get through the initial phase of "where do I start??", domain modelling, user stories, etc.
Personal traits
- Passionate - I love learning, and I love developing software. I am fascinated by all things technology, and I know I will be developing software that will shape the future.
- Humble - In my humble opinion...
- Patient - So I've been told... Does not apply to slow technology (computer, internet connection, etc.)
- Team worker - Able to work in a team or alone. At second work, most of my time was spent pair-programming, of which 4 weeks were spent in a team environment where I'd develop software in teams of 4 people. On my first job I've worked in a much larger team, where communication was essential to delivering satisfactory results. Currently I work in a team of 3, where we all collaborate on everything from infrastructure design to the final code.
- Communication - Having pair-programmed in expirience, I have learned to effectively communicate technical terms and ideas to my pair partner, as well as understanding the ideas being communicated to me.
Project Highlights
| Name | Description | Team size | Technologies used |
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| OpenDialog AI Ltd |
My role: Back-end engineer. Terms: September 2022 – August 2023. OpenDialog is a conversational experience platform for designing chatbots and voice assistants, and integrating them with external systems. My responsibilities include developing and maintaining the core conversation engine, which acts as an orchestrator that enables user interactions and utilizes NLP & LLM models for intent classification and entity extraction. | 10 | Laravel 8, PHP 8, Laravel Nova, Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Models, Tenants, Vue.js, S3 |
| Alice Dreads - Worldwide Shop |
My role: Tech-lead, Back-end developer. Terms: March 2021 – now. Alice Dreads - Online store for worldwide sales of gorgeous handmade Dreadlocks. The store is large and already worked on another platform (Etsy), it was necessary to transfer it as completely as possible with all the data. Responsibilities: Selection team for development (PM, Dev-Ops, QA, Front-End developer), Researching Payment System, Finding the best solution for the client regarding the architecture of the application (finding the most suitable architecture, creating the most flexible product to further support the work for mobile applications), Developing secure and flexible API for dynamic front, Integrating payment system (LiqPay), Developing Admin Panel (Laravel nova), Unit test coverage | 5 | Laravel 8, PHP 8, Laravel Nova, PostgreSQL, Vue.js, S3 |
| Very Basic Laravel Vue.js project GitHub |
My Own very Beginning of the good project :) This Project I've created as a base for new complex Full-stack projects. On board: Laravel framework v9, Vue.js v3 SPA with 'composables' pattern, RESTful JSON API, Resources, migrations, seeders, tests, PSR-2 compliant source code, laravel sail, tailwind | 1 | Docker, Sail, Laravel, Vue.js 3, Tailwind |
| Steganography coder/decoder and analyzer GitHub Live Demo |
My own PHP Steganography coder-decoder and analizer. Based on LSB algorithm. This is my Diploma Master's work :) Got 98 from 100. Finished in 2017. Worked on it for 3 years. | 1 | Laravel, Vue.js |
| Calorize Live Demo |
My own website where you can keep a food diary, easily and conveniently calculate the most complex own recipes with calorie accuracy, take measurements of your body parameters, analyze them according to various indicators (basal metabolism, fat percentage, normal weight and much more) . Monitors your sleep and mood. Everything is presented in the form of convenient graphs. The system already has a large base of basic simple products. You can reuse your recipes as many times as you like, changing the ratio of products in them and adding new ones - because of this, the old entries with this recipe will not change. The system is fully tested and works like clockwork. Highly appreciated by the well-known YouTube blogger - specialist in the issue, Boris Tsatsulin. There are many ideas for monetization. Finished in 2018, for half of year. | 1 | Laravel, Vue.js, MySQL |
| SMAP (mobile app) App Store |
API for IOS and Android (analog of foursquare) on Laravel using Algolia, complex searches by coordinates and radii, processing timezones + admin panel on Nova. Much documentation has been written and a well-equipped user-friendly Postman for different environments. 100% of my work except for markup, this application has been successfully launched in both stores and is widespread. | 1 | Algolia, Postman, MySQL, Laravel, S3 |
| Portals for medical device company |
Created a series of Laravel modules for a medical device company through which they track usage of their equipment and generate sales reports with a large amount of custom business logic. Worked as part of a team of five engineers using an agile/scrum methodology. | 5 | Laravel, Twig, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Docker |
| MedsNow - Payment Gateway Live |
Payment gateway using Sila, working with Ethereum wallets, generating them, storing sensitive data in AWS, using AWS to generate keys and store them. + Nova. Using all the power of PHP with regards to security (EDS, hashing, etc). (Laravel + jquery) 100% of my work except for markup, now this application has been successfully launched and is making a profit. | 1 | Laravel, KMS, jQuery, Nova, MySQL |
| Archivist - photo managing service |
Alteration with tweezers of a large old exclusive photo storage, consisting of different projects, collecting all the data together, completely rebuilding the database, migrating data with full preservation of everything that can be saved. (Laravel + Vue.js) (70% of my work except for markup) | 2 | Laravel, Vue.js, S3, MySQL |
| Worlwide Art Championship |
Architected and developed an online championship website where tens of thousands of people post photos of their work, with daily winners being selected using complex algorithms that we constantly iterated on. Site contains a large number of photos, videos and auto-generated awards. Developed as an SPA using Laravel, Vue.js and S3. Deployed and configured servers for maximum performance. | 3 | Laravel, jQuery, Vue.js, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS, S3 |
| ... | and many more | 1 | Various |
Education
- Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics Sept 2013 - Feb 2019 - Master of Computer Applications (MCA) - information security management
Employment
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OpenDialog AI Ltd Sep 2022 - Aug 2023 - Back End Engineer
- OpenDialog is a conversational experience platform for designing chatbots and voice assistants, and integrating them with external systems. My responsibilities include developing and maintaining the core conversation engine, which acts as an orchestrator that enables user interactions and utilizes NLP & LLM models for intent classification and entity extraction.
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SiteCraft Feb 2018 - Aug 2022 - Full-Stack Developer
- Development of bespoke internal system solutions, using whichever tool is right for the job
- Brought Slack, CI, issue boards and code reviews to the team
- Bug fixes and improvements on existing systems
- Developed a firm grasp of Laravel, PHP, MySQL, VueJS, API development and consumption
- Working together with managers and end-users to collect feedback and improve existing systems to make the business more efficient.
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NailsOfTheDay Oct 2016 - Feb 2018 - Full-stack developer
- Ιntegration APIs (Mandrill, Mailgun, PayMaster)
- Write internal reports
- Building full-stack features for our in-house products
- Agile environment
- Git version control
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PineDev Mar 2016 - Oct 2016 - Trainee WordPress developer
- Developed WordPress plugins for an outsourced development company.
- Implemented custom solutions using JQuery, Bootstrap and WooCommerce.
Interests
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Learning / Reading - Love reading non-fiction in my spare time, anything to increase my knowledge so I can become better and contribute more to the world.
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Music - Attended a private music school between the age 9 and 16, where I learned to play piano and singing. Later self-taught to play guitar. Now writing electronic music from time to time.
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Painting - Amateur. Ambassador abstract art.
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Handmaid - Any handmaid. Just leave me alone in workshop. It really relaxes me.
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Writings articles - I love to share knowledge.