Sergey Panov

Yerevan, Armenia

Senior UI Engineer

Grid Dynamics

2022-05 - current

Working for a large American retailer in a team responsible for making customers' ways to products more convenient — from search platform to catalog and social widgets.

Acted as a mentor for a regional UI Internship. Responsible for engineering development of 50+ UI Engineers in Armenia.

Lead Web Developer

Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University "LETI", IT Department

2019-04 - 2022-03

Was a leader of a small team (3-8 members) that developed internal systems for teachers and students, also supporting the Education, Financial, and Science Departments. Used Laravel 5.x-8.x as a backend framework with MySQL and PostgreSQL as applications' database servers, also developed integrations with third-party applications by connecting to their databases (MSSQL and Oracle). Used Backbone.js and Vue.js as frontend frameworks. Built a couple of microservices written in Python and wrapped into Docker, helped to develop microservices written in C# and C++. Wrote unit and integration tests for backend; set up CI/CD configurations. Communicated with stakeholders and end-users, and helped to solve problems in unforeseen situations connected to unexpected government decisions. Developed one of the best systems for University applicants (according to their feedback).

Co-founder, Head of Localization, CTO

Brezg Studio

2017-11 - 2022-03

Co-founded the game development studio Brezg. Participated in process management in UI/UX design, game design, and script work. As a part of the Dev Team provided the first, unreleased version of For the People game written with the Unity framework. Developed internal web services for game content management, localization, and closed testing. Worked as a Head of Localization during the development of a second version of For the People, written with Ren'Py. Set up CI/CD on GitLab for web services and game builds for QA and production.