# Paul B. > AI & Automation Lead | Master’s in Computer Engineering Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/paulb Graduated Master of Computer Applications (M. C. A). Worked last 10 years in international companies and freelance. Developed and managed projects as an independent contractor as well as a member of distributed teams of 25 specialists. Expert competence in developing, managing, and designing web projects. Full-stack developer with knowledge and experience for developing projects from scratch to release. Strong background in customer relations. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Newfire Global Partners Jan 2021 – Present | United States "HR for Health" project. Developed new features and successfully migrated the project from a legacy system to a microservices architecture. ★ Responsibilities: Enhanced business features to meet client needs. Migrated back-end systems from SLIM to Laravel microservices. Conducted code reviews for quality and consistency. Developed feature tests to improve functionality and reliability. Integrated AI tools to support development productivity. Created a machine-readable API for AI applications. ★ Technologies & Tools: PHP, Laravel, MySQL, Redis, JavaScript, JQuery, HTML, CSS, AWS, Git, Docker, Linux. ★ Team Size: 15 specialists ### Software Engineer Team Lead @ Upwork Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Israel "Tiffulit" Developed a CRM application that helped small businesses streamline their operations, enabling them to manage customer interactions, sales, and business activities from both web and mobile platforms. ★ Responsibilities: - Gathered and analyzed business requirements. - Facilitated meetings. - Interviewed and hired new specialists and companies. - Designed application architecture (API, Website, DB, etc.). - Developed front-end and back-end new features. - Deployed updates and maintained servers. ★ Tools & Technologies: PHP, JS, CodeIgniter, WordPress, AngularJs, JQuery, HTML, CSS, AWS, Git, VirtualBox, Kanban ★ Team size: 5 - 10 specialists ### Software Engineer Team Lead @ Upwork Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### Software Engineer @ Softheme Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Israel "Adjesty" Analyzing, monitoring and cleaning context advertising of large ads aggregators. The back-end processes incoming ads and collects analytic data. Admin panel for customers uses API to get data from backend and provides UI to control ads supplier based on analytics data. ★ Responsibilities: - Designed application architecture for front-end & back-end. - Developed new features. - Deployed tested code. - Maintained servers. ★ Tools & Technologies: JS, AngularJs, JQuery, PHP, HTML5, Bootstrap, CSS3/SASS, Gulp ★ Team Size: 4 specialists ### Team Lead, Full stack developer @ Softheme Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Denmark "Homeling" Fulfill needs of families in their private communication. An iOS app for chatting, sharing photos, notes, arranging events. The app uses SaaS for exchanging messages and custom API for more complex objects. Amazon S3 is used as storage for photos. Authentication based on third-party SMS sending service. Artificial intelligence service gets used for analyzing the content of photos. ★ Responsibilities: - Gathered and analyzed business requirements. - Facilitated and convened meetings of dev-team and product owner. - Organized and controlled QA processes. - Designed application architecture (API, Website, DB, Tests, etc.). - Developed front-end and back-end new features. - Developed and run Unit tests. - Deployed updates and maintained servers. ★ Tools & Technologies: PHP7, MySQL, JS, Laravel, JQuery, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, CRON, Postman, Fiddler, Agile project management ★ Team size: 5 specialists ### Software Engineer @ Softheme Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Poland Wonga.pl Polish department of one of the largest micro-credit online service in the world. ★ Responsibilities: -Developed new features for business. - Migrated of frontend to AngularJs. - Reviewed the team member's code. - Developed and run automated tests. - Refactored legacy code. ★ Technologies: PHP, Drupal, JS, AngularJs, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Jenkins, Git, Virtualbox, Selenium, Agile ★ Team Size: 25 specialists ### Team Lead, Full stack developer @ Softheme Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | London, United Kingdom LeadBox Helps to find leads from LinkedIn (API) and add them to customer’s account for further sending business presentations that can be uploaded to a system in whatever format and transformed into PDF file. The project has a Google Add-on for adding leads on the go from the LinkedIn website or from Google search results. ★ Responsibilities: - Designed an architecture of the project. - Reviewed team member’s code. - Developed front-end and back-end. - Developed Google Add-on. - Developed and run automated tests. - Deployed updates and maintained the server. ★ Technologies: PHP, Symfony, MySQL, Doctrine, JS, JQuery, HTML, CSS, RabbitMQ, Google App Script, LinkedIn REST API, Git, Kanban. ★ Team Size: 5 ### Project Lead Developer @ Softheme Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | London, United Kingdom Minicabit Mobile and web application for booking a taxi in the UK among aggregated taxi companies. Used Google Maps API for displaying path and PayPal API for payments. ★ Responsibilities: - Design architecture and developed new features. - Reviewed team member’s code. - Fixed legacy code. - Developed and run automated tests. - Deployed updates and maintained the server. ★ Tools & Technologies: PHP, MySQL, JS, JQuery, HTML, CSS, Cron, Git, Selenium, Google Maps API, Kanban ★ Team Size: 6 ### Software Developer @ New Strategies Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Kiev Region, Ukraine Series of advertising projects that made a promotion of a particular product on a local market in Ukraine. Developed and supported advertising and social networking websites. ★ Responsibilities: - Developed new features. - Fixed legacy code. ★ Technologies and tools: - PHP, Drupal, WordPress, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, JQuery, MySQL, MongoDb, Redis. ★ Team Size: 5 ### Software Developer @ Gameloft Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Kharkiv Region, Ukraine Chinese linear mobile game. ★ Responsibilities: - Developed new features. - Developed automated tests. ★ Tools & Technologies: PHP, ZendFramework, MySQL, Cron, SVN ★ Team size: 20 specialists ### Web Developer @ ITCreate Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Kharkiv Region, Ukraine ★ Responsibilities: - Developed and maintained CMS for mobile application. - Developed an e-commerce module for service payments with PayPal API. - Developed geo-system web interface for ordering a taxi. - Designed and developed web-interface for taxi ordering and tracking (taxi, customer) service based on Google Maps API. ★ Technologies: PHP, PayPal API, MySQL, SQLite, JavaScript, JQuery, Google Maps API. ### Frontend Developer @ Easy Date Holdings Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Zaporizhia Region, Ukraine Developed markups for a social network website. ★ Responsibilities: - Developed layout of pages - Developed updates in existing design ★ Tools & Technologies: JS, HTML, CSS, Photoshop ★ Team Size: 5 ## Education ### Master's degree in Computer Engineering Kharkiv National University of Radio Electronics ### Project and programm management Pro Business School ### IT Project Management Web Academy ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/b-paul1 --- Source: https://flows.cv/paulb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/paulb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11