HumanScript developer at Hillel IT School; MarfaLab

About me

I'm a soft skills trainer with over 11 years of experience in development. Over this time I've progressed from a trainee C# developer to a frontend team lead. The biggest leaps in my career, I attribute primarily to working on soft skills.

I know what is weak soft skills and how this affects career from my own experience and that of my colleagues and subordinates. So I devoted a lot of time to studying the topic and practicing it.

Also, I'm an introvert and I know how hard communication could be.

Currently I conduct career consultations, mentor frontend beginners, conduct soft skills webinars and trainings. Also, I teach the Frontend Pro course at Hillel IT School and develop and conduct lessons on soft skills in various groups (PM, Marketing, Cybersecurity, Design, Development).

My superpower is a combination of strong analytical skills, the ability to break things down systematically, a drive to get to the rootcause of issues, and a keen observant eye that allows me to see more.

Raised 8 junior and 6 middle developers, and 1 team leader
Consulted 8 beginners
Mentored 6 frontend beginners
Conducted 50 technical interviews
Conducted 15 webinars on soft skills topics:
- conflict solving
- communication difficulties
- soft skills fundamentals
- soft skills on the way to IT job and beyond

Main Expertise

Frontend (HTML/CSS/JS, React, Redux, SASS, Node.js, Firebase, Webpack, Git)
Team management
Soft skills development
IT career troubleshooting
- for beginners – can't choose an IT direction, procrastination in learning, doubts and fears, lack of confidence, no response after sending CV, can't pass an interview, etc
- for specialists – no idea how to grow, conflicts, impostor syndrome, burnout, etc
- for team leaders – difficult to keep up with both team management and development responsibilities, impostor syndrome, hard deadlines, burnout, problematic subordinate, etc

Publications

Article for MC.today Як управляти конфліктом із замовником і колегами
Webinar for WinE Як (не) пролетіти з ІТ через софт скіли?

Experience

MarfaLab
Mar 2023 – Present

MarfaLab is a project aimed at spreading knowledge in the field of soft skills for IT. I provide consultations on soft skills, frontend, job search, help with non-technical work-related issues, participate in mentoring programs, conduct soft skills webinars, and manage an Instagram page.

Women in engineering [WINE]
Sep 2023 – Feb 2024

Frontend mentor
Career counselor

Hillel IT School
Dec 2022 – Present

Lecturer, Soft skills lessons
Tasks: develop, prepare and conduct the lessons
Teacher, Frontend Pro course
Tasks: prepare and conduct the lessons, check home works, answer the questions
Technologies: Javascript, React, Redux, Testing, HTML, CSS, NodeJS, Fastify, Webpack, Git

AMC Bridge
Nov 2012 – May 2022

Frontend team leader + Frontend developer, PLM project for construction companies – web
Tasks: customer and team communication, meetings, solving non-technical issues, develop a strategy to fight tech debt, 1-to-1 meetings with subordinates, weekly reports, interviews, conduct demos, estimates, deployment, priorityze the tasks and distribute them within the team, specify the task requirements of the customer, implement features, fix bugs
Technologies: Javascript, Typescript, React, Mobx, GraphQL, HTML, SASS, CSS, C#, Firebase, MongoDB, Webpack, Git
Fullstack developer, 3D viewer – web, add-in for CAD
Tasks: team communication, daily meetings, complex feature and new functionality implementation, fix bugs
Technologies: JavaScript, Angular, Redux, Three.js, WebSockets, Node.js, MongoDB, HTML, Less.js, CSS, Grunt, C# WPF, CAD API, Git
Team leader, Bunch of projects – integrational add-ins for CAD
Tasks: top management and team communication, weekly reports, estimates and sprint planning, publication in app store, distribution of tasks within the team,
Fullstack developer, The app for visual programming – desktop and web
Tasks: team communication, daily meetings, feature implementation, fix bugs
Technologies: C#, WPF, WebSockets, LINQ, JavaScript, Node.js, Three.js, Backbone.js, jQuery, MongoDB, TypeScript, Grunt, HTML, CSS, NUnit, Git
Fullstack developer, Time tracking system – web
Tasks: largely expand the site with new functionality, fix bugs, deployment
Technologies: C#, ASP.NET, SQL, ADO.NET, LINQ, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, SVN
Trainee C# developer, About dialog – desktop app
Tasks: implementing the dialog window, make it customizible, add a licensing feature
Technologies: C#, WPF, managed C++, SVN

Boston UniSoft Technologies
Feb 2012 – Aug 2012

Trainee C# developer, “UniTrader” – desktop Tasks: fixing bugs, implementing small features Technologies: C#, ADO.NET Entity framework, WCF, SQL, LINQ, SVN, Git

Short-term projects

Fullstack developer, Educational project – web (Jan 2023 – Apr 2023)
Tasks: create an architecture, develop a design, implement quizes, market research
Technologies: Figma, Javascript, React, HTML, SASS, CSS, NodeJS, Fastify, Webpack, Git
Frontend developer, personal website for a designer – web (Jul 2022 – Oct 2022)
Tasks: create an architecture, adapt the design from CV to website, implement the whole site, deploy
Technologies: Javascript, React, HTML, SASS, CSS, IntersectionObserver, Firebase, Webpack, Git