CV — Pavlo Lisovyi

DevOps Engineer

Cloud and AI infrastructure for an AI-powered site generation and editing product.

• Owned and extended AWS infrastructure for an AI-heavy, cloud-based site generation and editing product
• Provisioned everything as code with Terraform (ECS services, SQS, Envoy, RDS Postgres, DNS via Route53 and Cloudflare)
• Operated the observability stack: Prometheus, Loki, Fluentd, Grafana
• Maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2025 — Aug 2025

Infra and cloud for a cloud-based, AI-heavy site generation and editing product.

• Owned and extended AWS infrastructure for an AI-heavy, cloud-based site generation and editing product
• Provisioned everything as code with Terraform (ECS services, SQS, Envoy, RDS Postgres, DNS via Route53 and Cloudflare)
• Operated the observability stack: Prometheus, Loki, Fluentd, Grafana
• Maintained CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions

Software Engineer

Jul 2023 — Dec 2024

Working on application engine and desktop Electron application development

• Built desktop application functionality with Electron
• Owned release management and CI/CD: built GitHub Actions pipelines, automated builds, and auto-update tooling for the desktop application on Windows, Linux and macOS

Frontend Developer

Jun 2022 — Jun 2023

React frontend development

• Joined the team to work on the React frontend of the site editing application — after years of Angular and zero React experience, ramped up and shipped fast
• Built and shipped React frontend features for the Electron application for site editing

Lead Frontend Developer

Working on an Angular platform, with features heavily using Mapbox and d3.js.

Lead Software Engineer

Lead Frontend Developer building an Angular application for US healthcare.

• Inherited an Angular.js 1.2 application built by an outsourcing company and drove its evolution: upgraded to Angular.js 1.6 with ES6, turned it into a hybrid Angular.js/Angular app, and completed the migration to a fully-fledged Angular 2–8 application with Angular CLI and Material
• Maintained legacy integration points alongside the modern stack: Bootstrap, jQuery plugins

Technical Lead

Hired by startup HotelCloud through Infopulse at the moment its CTO decided to leave and pull out his development team.

• Performed rapid knowledge transfer: documented processes and technologies via Confluence, learned and automated mobile app build/deployment
• Hired a compact team of two Rails developers and one frontend developer (iOS/Android provided by Infopulse)
• Established infrastructure: moved everything under VCS, migrated from Heroku to AWS, automated processes, set up a Jira/GitHub workflow
• Finished the upgrade to Ember 2 and resolved previously unfulfilled delivery promises to clients

Senior Software Engineer / Frontend Architect

Multiple digital solutions for Racingpost through EPAM.

• Built an Angular.js application as part of a scrum team; it later became part of racingpost.com
• Formed a team (two frontend developers, one backend developer, two QAs) and built an Angular.js SPA that was successfully demoed and sold at a gambling exhibition
• Promoted to frontend architect: facilitated cross-team communication, made frontend architectural decisions, and ensured collaboration between frontend teams, the API team, the London designers team, and dev-ops
• Backends were mostly RESTful APIs on Phalcon (PHP framework) with Sybase DB; frontends were Angular.js SPAs or vanilla JS site pages
• Covered products with unit and e2e testing; established CI with Atlassian Bamboo and Jenkins; used git, bower and npm with private registries, and grunt as task runner

Team Lead / Frontend Developer

Opened and led a new frontend office in Kyiv for Mute Lab, focused on the Nemo travel SaaS.

• Registered the company, oversaw financial and legal activities, and hired a team of frontend developers, designers, support staff and QAs
• Led all design and frontend work while doing hands-on development, and performed product sales on the Ukrainian market
• Nemo (nemo.travel) — SaaS for plane and railroad ticket sales, hotel and tour bookings, and up-selling services, with PHP and .NET backends
• Frontend work: supporting and modernizing legacy code — PHP templating, vanilla JS, jQuery/jQuery UI, knockout.js; Stylus preprocessor; grunt, later gulp; migrated VCS from Subversion to git
• Ran this in parallel with hands-on development at Dwalin Smith (2011–2014), in a doubling capacity

Full Stack Developer / Team Lead

Small team of freelancers (backend devs, frontend devs, designers) building sites as full-stack developer. From 2011 to 2014 ran in parallel with the Mute Lab office lead role, in a doubling capacity.

• Full-stack development (PHP + frontend) on a custom PHP CMS; some projects on Joomla, Drupal and other open-source CMS
• Frontend evolution: vanilla JS, then jQuery/jQuery UI, up to Knockout.js on the latest project
• Used git as VCS; CSS preprocessors (Less, SCSS, Stylus) and BEM methodology
• From 2011 the team became part of the Mute Lab Kyiv office, focused on Mute Lab work

Team Lead

Leading a small team of 4 people developing a travel site with several services.

• Built site services using miscellaneous small APIs and some web-scraping
• Assisted 3rd-party SaaS integration for plane and hotel booking
• Used git, PHP, custom CMS, HTML+CSS (BEM with Stylus) and vanilla JS + jQuery

Web Developer

Maintaining and developing forums, blogs and custom CMS sites.

• PHP, HTML+CSS and some JS coding; no VCS, no processes

System Administrator, Internet Center

Sep 2008 — Dec 2009 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Tech support in the university students' internet centre.

• Administering and supporting a Linux environment

Trainee, PR Department

Oct 2007 — Jun 2008 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Working with databases; facilitation of university events; helping build the university PR campaign through digital products.