Loran Mutafov - Résumé
Hello
I'm Loran Mutafov
Developer and Human
- Age 32
- From Varna, Bulgaria
- Currently London, United Kingdom
- Based in London, United Kingdom
- E-mail [email protected]
- 4 Jul, 2023 🗽
- Contracting Currently Unavailable
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Hi, I’m Loran.
Software & Ops Engineer, mainly specialising in backend development.
Experienced with all stages of the development cycle for agile projects.
Well-versed in numerous technologies including Go, SQL, NoSQL, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS and others.
Skill overview
Work experience - 10 years
Nov 2021 - present
Element Human
DevOps Engineer - London, England
- Inherited the whole infrastructure, as the previous DevOps engineer had left
- Performed all sorts of overdue updates of Terraform, Kubernetes and other supporting tech with zero downtime
- Planned and started rewriting the backend from Python to Go
- Organised Go Dojos to familiarise the team with the language
- Helped management figure out what observability means to them
- Improved observability of our systems to help keep track of key metrics
- Identified many areas of the product where tests were missing
- Guided team on a sensible and pragmatic approach to tackling the above without burning out or dying of boredom
- Got the cofounder to say he loves his job again after some of those tests were in place and the product became more stable as a result
- More details on https://loran.dev
2015 - present
Royal Technology
Owner - Varna, Bulgaria
- Forged successful relationships with clients
- Discussed their needs and planned implementations
- Built projects with an agile-driven approach
Nov 2020 - Nov 2021
Thunes
Software Engineer - London, United Kingdom
- Wrote an API Gateway for a greenfield project
- Wrote stable REST APIs to sit infront of archaic, SOAP-only banking systems
- Wrote a Go package to standardise http actions and responses for our team
- The rest is confidential
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
Appear Here
Software Engineer - London, England
- Part of PG (Profitable Growth) team
- Deliverables driven by OKR metrics
- Improved website Apdex from 0.6 to 0.85
- Reduced CI runtime from 1.5h to 45min
- Stabilised CI builds from 30% to 90%
- Created process for flaky spec prioritisation
- Identified and implemented many performance improvements for the main website
- Delivered customer retention focused payment process improvement
- More details on https://loran.dev
Oct 2018 - Aug 2019
Gousto
Software Engineer - London, England
- In squad Parsnips (Supply Tribe)
- Squad agile champion
- Tech team events (Event Avocados) champion
- Planned and led refinements and retrospectives
- Planned team capacity, tracked metrics
- Ran and evaluated experiments to increase velocity and reduce team cycle time
- Planned and iteratively delivered migrations from legacy monolith to microservices
- Changed source of truth to new microservice
- Implemented messaging to decouple microservice
- Aligned squad on preventing circular messaging loops
- Aligned with Data Science on ways to pull data
- More details on https://loran.dev
Jul 2016 - Oct 2018
Amara Living
Software Engineer - London, England
- Delivered core-repository features, optimisations, fixes and implementations
- Planning systems architecture changes for future scaling
- Brought VarCon to PHP
- Delivered key Symfony1 to Symfony2 migrations
- Proposed new marketing channel - chat bots
- Proposed an interdepartment work&bond scheme
- Proposed work-on-something-of-your-choice Friday afternoons
- Bonus: Successfully led christmas decorations - ask me about the BUG! button
Feb 2014 - Nov 2014; Jul 2015 - Jul 2016
Composity
Software Engineer - Varna, Bulgaria
- Delivered features for the company's core products
- Planned and executed incremental architectural changes
- Introduced the company to peer code reviewing
- Introduced the company to best agile practices
- Introduced and implemented a simpler design and UX for the back office
- Proposed migration from Angular to React to create a true mobile experience
November 2014 - June 2015
Starcoders
PHP Consultant - Kapellen, Belgium
- Delivered new features and bugfixes for a userbase of millions, often with immediate impact
- Planned and delivered commands for mass-database-updates
2013 - 2014
Owned it
Software Engineer - Birmingham, England
- Delivered new features to the core product
- Planned day-to-day development tasks
- Planned and executed integrations with more ecommerce platforms
- Trained a graduate programmer
- Introduced better programming practices within the team
- Supported clients both online and on-site
2010 - 2011
Web Developer
Web Agency - Varna, Bulgaria
- Planned and delivered a systems integration for one of our biggest clients
- Delivered a project for the NY Times (it was a Flash one, haha)
- Delivered changes to our regular customers' websites
- Planned and executed server migrations ensuring minimal down-time during off-hours
- Developed in the pre-git, almost-pre-framework era
6 more...
- Visit https://loran.dev to see the rest
Education
2011 - 2014
BSc (hons) Business Information Systems
Cardiff Metropolitan University
2013
Erasmus Programme
University College Birmingham
Companies I've worked with
References
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I work with many talented young professionals, and Loran is, without a doubt, a top notch candidate, and would excel at a high level when tested. Many times before, Loran has displayed excellent communication skills, motivation, self discipline, and being able to work in a team atmosphere.
Chris Fitzpatrick Overlooked Ventures, President -
The communication skills of Mr. Mutafov impress with psychological depth and adaptability against the attitude of customers both in the presentation of a specific service, and in the process of its implementation.
Pepa Petrova Protema Ltd, Manager -
We were pleased with his programming skills coupled with his organised working style. He's got very good communication skills both written and verbal.
Sonu Bubna Owned it, Co-founder
Client portfolio & Projects
Client portfolio & projects sample
Odd things I'm proud of
› I made the news ..once:
› In the “Anything special you would like to add“
section for a job interview, I wrote “Myself to this company“
. They hired me.
Contact me
Classic form
- E-mail [email protected]
- Or Schedule a call