Resume

Sergei Korolev

Objective:

Remote work on web projects at $60/hour

Full name:

Sergei Korolev

Lives in:

Belgrade, Serbia

Work Experience: 25+ Years

Full Stack Web Developer
November 2020 — Present
Self-employed
I worked on multiple web development projects in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX for different clients. The projects were based on various CMS platforms or frameworks. Some were custom-built code written from scratch.

Full Stack Web Developer
March 2016 — November 2020
TOTOGROUP LLC (St.Petersburg)
I was the sole web developer in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX responsible for the company site. At the same time, I was working on multiple web development projects for other clients.

Lead Full Stack Web Developer
October 2013 — April 2015
Serfera LLC (surfory.com – social network project) (St.Petersburg)
I created the project from scratch. At the start of the project, I was the only web programmer in the company. Later, as a group lead, I supervised one programmer and kept working as the lead web developer. The project was based on the Yii2 Framework. It used multiple databases (both RDBMS and NoSQL). There was a database cluster. Many specialized solutions were integrated into the project.

Full Stack Web Developer
December 2010 — July 2013
Pharmacor JSC (St.Petersburg)
I was the only web programmer in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX of the holding company for more than 2.5 years of my work there. I was working on 11 holding sites based on different CMS platforms. I created a web store for the company in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX from scratch. The system constantly worked with several RDMBS including MySQL, MS SQL, and some others. The system was based on MVC with a page controller. Later some blocks of code in the Yii Framework were added. The system supported the multi-site feature.

Lecturer at Web Programming Courses
November 2010 — December 2010
Gazprom Corporate Institute (St.Petersburg)
I was the sole lecturer at the course “Server side development of web-projects in PHP using RDMBS MySQL” for Gazprom programmers (72 hours – from November 22 through December 2, 2010). I was teaching both theory and practice. (Gazprom is one of the biggest holding companies in Russia)

Full Stack Web Developer
July 2008 — November 2010
Work on multiple one-time web projects for different companies
I worked on multiple one-time projects in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript/AJAX. I developed many systems during this time.

Lecturer at Web Programming Courses
September 2008 — October 2008
Gazprom Corporate Institute (St.Petersburg)
I was the sole lecturer at the course “Server side development of web-projects in PHP using RDMBS MySQL” for Gazprom programmers (72 hours – from September 22 through October 3, 2008). I was teaching both theory and practice. (Gazprom is one of the biggest holding companies in Russia)

Head of a Small Programming Department
March 2004 — July 2008
BARS+ CJSC (St.Petersburg)
I was the head of the programming department and a software developer. I had 2 more employees in my department. I could transfer some simpler tasks to my subordinates. Also, they were responsible for technical support. Mostly I worked in PHP/MySQL. I was responsible for the creation of parsers/processors for regional price formation in construction databases and transferring these databases to our format. Also, I had to do some minor work in Visual FoxPro. At the same time, I worked on many web projects in PHP/MySQL/JavaScript.

Lecturer at Web Programming Courses
February 2008 — February 2008
Gazprom Corporate Institute (St.Petersburg)
I was the sole lecturer at the course “Client-side web programming. XML technologies” for Gazprom programmers (72 hours – from February 4 through February 15, 2008). I was teaching both theory and practice. (Gazprom is one of the biggest holding companies in Russia)

Lecturer at Web Programming Courses
September 2007 — September 2007
Gazprom Corporate Institute (St.Petersburg)
I was the lecturer at the course “Server side development of web-projects in PHP using RDMBS MySQL” for Gazprom programmers (72 hours – from September 3 through September 14, 2007). I was teaching both theory and practice. (Gazprom is one of the biggest holding companies in Russia)

Programmer Engineer
July 1998 — March 2004
BARS+ CJSC (St.Petersburg)
I was a software developer in Visual FoxPro (with developing some libraries and small applications in C++). I created several programs for sale to companies in the construction industry. I developed everything for the software: from program code to the manual and help files. Also, the company website was made by me (PHP/MySQL).

Certifications

Web Development Certifications

Zend Certified Egineer in PHP 5.3

Zend Certified Engineer in PHP 5.3. This was a Pearson Vue certification which could be passed in the authorized certification centers only.

Unfortunately, Zend has decided to delete the Zend Certified Engineer Directory on August 28, 2023. So my ZCE certificate page, previously available at https://www.zend-zce.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND021587, could be seen as stored on Web Archive only for now.

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ExpertRating certifications
ExpertRating PHP 5 Certification

Expert Level — please see my ExpertRating transcript for the PHP 5 test for details.

ExpertRating PHP 4 Certification

Expert Level — please see my ExpertRating transcript for the PHP 4 test for details.

ExpertRating XML 1.0 Certification

Expert Level — please see my ExpertRating transcript for the XML 1.0 test for details.
(“GPA: 4” at the bottom indicates that the result was the best among test takers).

I also had multiple Brainbench certifications in various programming languages.

SEO Courses Certifications

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Udemy Certifications

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Programming Skills

Programming:

PHP8.3 — PHP4, JavaScript, AJAX, Visual C++ 5.0/6.0, C++ Builder, Visual FoxPro 5.0 — 8.0, FoxPro 2.5, VBA, Delphi, XMPP, HTML/DHTML, SASS/SCSS, CSS, etc.

JavaScript libraries:

jQuery / jQuery UI, VueJS, Angular, AngularJS (with Yeoman), Twitter Bootstrap, Yahoo User Interface, Prototype, multiple small libraries and plugins

RDBMS:

MySQL, MS SQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle

NoSQL:

MongoDB, Redis, Memcached

PHP solutions:

WordPress, Yii2 Framework, Yii1 Framework, Magento 2, OSCommerce, X-Cart, Zend Framework, Smarty, DLE, Umi CMS, ABO CMS, Contrast CMS, Simpla CMS, Joomla, Drupal, etc.

Testing (BDD/TDD):

Codeception, PHPUnit

Other products:

Apache Solr, eJabberd, Prosody, worked with different payment systems, etc.

Version Control:

Git, Mercurial

Operating systems:

Windows, macOS, Linux (using Ubuntu a lot, using Docker a lot), FreeBSD, MS-DOS

English:

excellent

University Education

University:

St.Petersburg University of Fine Mechanics and Optics

Degree:

Electrical Engineer

Major:

Computer Science and Control in Technical Systems

Minor:

Electrical Engineering

GPA:

4.95

Graduated:

May, 1995

I attended a post-graduate course at the same university from 1995 to June 1998.

Please feel free to contact me via the contact form here.