Artūrs Reiljans

• Riga, Latvia
• ernt@ernt.lv
• (+371) 2-96-901-96
• https://ernt.lv

I enjoy creating useful Internet projects, both as work and as a hobby

Tech stack

• My strongest professional skill — PHP
  • And framework of choice is Symfony
    • Got introduced to it on an existing e-commerce platform at Intexsys, used later for replacing legacy email subscription management system with a shiny new one.
    • Used for a new service for retrieving road closures data from various APIs at Mappost.
    • Placewatch, my pet project and technical playground, runs on Symfony as well.
  • Used Laravel at Printify and PATA, Zend Framework at Mogo, Slim Framework at Car Rental Gateway.
  • Wrote a standalone library with plugins for Laravel and Yii2 at Printful.
  • In early years, reinvented the wheel by creating my own framework for Zurbu. Who didn't?
• Databases
  • Relational ones like MySQL and PostgreSQL. That's ubiquitous.
  • NoSQL, too: ElasticSearch, Redis, MongoDB…
  • Did anyone say embedded? Placewatch data export is based on SQLite.
• Message queues
  • RabbitMQ. First met at Intexsys, used extensively for creating internal publish-subscribe library at Printful. The latter also included Protobuf serialization.
  • Used PostgreSQL for simpler queues at Placewatch.
• Infrastructure
  • Docker. Almost everywhere nowadays.
  • Configured Placewatch servers with Ansible.
  • Implemented deployments with Bitbucket Pipelines at Mappost, and GitHub Actions at Placewatch.
• Even though I'm more of a back-end person, I maintain some interest in front-end, too
  • HTML and CSS — often happy to see new features get more green boxes at caniuse.com.
  • JavaScript — less of an expert here but still able to do a thing or two.
• Stepping out of a comfort zone
  • Used NodeJS for a new microservice at Car Rental Gateway.
  • Wrote some Java code using Spring Framework for a legacy microservice at Printify.
  • Played around with Go for Placewatch.
  • Created a very basic but useful Android app for Placewatch.

Communication

• Migrated existing Mappost codebase from SVN to Git — few simple commands, lots of explaining, introducing Gitflow-based processes, mentoring, and other people skills.
• IT Micro was a small company with lots of integrations. 10 countries, 33 mobile carriers, 10 languages, 19 APIs used for carrier lookups, WAP billing, SMS sending and receiving — apart from technical flexibility, this also required constant external communication.
• Agile, Scrum. Captain Obvious asked me to write this line.
• As a company owner, I am able to work on B2B contracts.

Languages

• I am fluent in English, Russian and Latvian.
• Able to read, write basic texts and hold everyday conversations in German.
• Generally curious about unfamiliar ones. Once even implemented an API integration using documentation in Romanian at Mogo.

Timeline