Alexander Karakin

Estonia · Harjumaa - Tallinn · (372) 55 99 two two 88 · karakin.alexandr@gmail.com

I am a junior PHP Backend developer with 1 years of experience and about 7 years of experience in other IT fields. I am looking for a workingplace on junior backend php developer place. Also its possible to get a practice via töötukassa (only in Estonia).


Experience

Junior backend PHP developer (study)

Junior developer in HEXLET LTD

Study and work on several projects. One of them is online browser based Multi User Dungeon RPG game. Used technologies - PHP 8, GitHub, BitBucket, PostgreSQL, Laravel 9 framework, Slim, OOP and etc

06/2020 - 12/2021

Browser Automation

Browser automation template creator via ZennoPoster

Studied ZennoPoster software platform and offered browser automations service via POST/GET requests. Automation of any cases, webscraping, collecting databases, filling stores with goods. Doorway generation to drive web traffic and much more. Also check my Awards.

11/2018 - 05/2020

3D models tester

Tester in Ringtail Studios

The Ringtail Studios is a studio specialized in providing 3D content production and co-development services for all types of platforms and real-time engines. In this position i have tested 3D models for few online game projects. Testing was simply via UnrealEngine software - checking textures and shaders for bugs. Reporting was also simple to noname bug tracking systems. Sometimes i have created simply models in 3Dmax.

08/2018 - 11/2018

QA Test Engineer

QA Test Engineer in ALPHA CRC

Trained as a web application tester on WordPress. I searched for bugs on the website, wrote cases, tested blackbox, reported to Jira bug tracking system. It was cool experience for few months. Testing was only manual.

05/2018 - 08/2018

CNC Operator

CNC milling maschine operator in ZIRCON Oü

Worked as a milling machine, wrote programs on CNC, worked on punch/press maschines, hardened metal in furnaces.

11/2014 - 02/2018

Data Entry Operator

VMP Oyj

Entering electricity meter readings into the Eesti Eneergia system. The workplace was closed due to the automation of the process.

01/2011 - 12/2011

Education

Hexlet LTD (remote)

Junior backend PHP Developer
2020 - 12/2021

Institute of Informatics and Computer Engineering - IATI (Tallinn, Estonia)

Programmer
2010

Lasnamäe Läänemere Russian Gymnasium (Tallinn, Estonia)

Secondary education
1998 - 2010

Skills

Spoken languages
  • Russian - mother
  • English - B1
  • Estonian - B2

Programming Languages & Tools

Workflow
  • Web application development
  • PHP Unit tests making
  • Browser automation

Interests

After graduation, I started to work a lot in various offline jobs. Realizing the futility, I began to study various IT industries. Studied design, worked at fiverr.com - created logos and intro videos. Studied Wordpress to try to create my own service using plugins. Studied affiliate marketing. Studied browser automation and offered my services in russian boards.

Now (2022) I am developing my browser based Multi User Dungeon MMORPG on PHP and PostgreSQL. Сurrent development status is Alpha and progress (with screenshots) you can check in my linkedin Post.

In the future I would like to develop my own SaaS project or join an existing one.

So I am always open to new ideas and to explore interesting industries and also for cooperations work. Want to connect to collective, get new friends and boost up my skills to Senior status. Let's start working together and build awesome services ;)


Awards & Certifications

  • 2021 - PHP Development certificate

  • 2020-2021 - Created 4 PHP projects
    7 console brain games
    JSON/YAML Difference finder tool
    Webpage analyze for SEO on Laravel 8 - Demo on Heroku
    Final project on Laravel 8 - Task Manager - Demo on Heroku

  • 2020 - Created a template for providing services on fiverr.com. The template parses neutral images, collects motivating quotes. On these pictures, the text of quotes is applied in a random order. The text is read through the Amazon Polly API. We get thousands of gif content animations made via FFMPEG. This content is neutral and can be filled with social networks before starting any kind of business.

  • 2018-2019 - Created and successfully sold few parser and content making templates. One of them - public case to gain free adult traffic. This template, by one click, records webcam streams in multithreaded mode via FFMPEG.

    Makes screenshots and gif animations from records. Generates landing pages with refferals links. Uploads landing pages to the bulletproof sharedhosting.

    Recorded streams marked with generated watermark which has link to the same landingpage of this stream. Uploads streams to adult tubes. Free traffic is a traffic who is looking for adult videos in tubes - video description has link to landing page and landing page has refferal links. Closed sells you can check - here (ru)

  • 2016 - Completed JAVA Se courses in OMIS IT studio (Tallinn).