Martin Tsachev

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Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Woods, Dublin, Ireland

Profile

Highly motivated Web Developer with 7+ years experience in e-commerce. I am specialized in online payments, fraud prevention, security, performance analysis/optimization, and high availability. I am a team player and possess strong technical, analytical, problem-solving, debugging, and communication skills. I seek a challenging Web Developer or Linux System Administrator position that will allow me to apply my existing experience and enable me to further develop my skills.

Technical Skills

Summary: I have 7 years professional LAMP experience (PHP and Perl, 4 years PHP 5) developing e-commerce web sites and 1 extra year personal experience. In addition to that 5 years FreeBSD and in the last 2 years lighttpd and nginx.

Work Experience

February 2010 to Present
Make-a-Store, Inc. - E-commerce Consultant / Senior Web Developer
Beaumont Hall, Beaumont Woods, Dublin, Ireland

Make-a-Store is offering complete e-commerce solutions for sites that sell everything - from ebooks and celebrity photos, through consumer electronics to real estate. A special product is available for wedding photographers to enable them to sell photos online. Make-a-Store is headquartered in Boston, MA and offers its customizable solutions since 1994.

See position below for more information.

September 2002 to January 2010
Make-a-Store, Inc. - Senior Web Developer (reporting to company CIO / co-founder)
24 Alexandrovska St, Office 11, Rousse, Bulgaria

Most significant achievement: Enabled fully automated provisioning of new customer web sites in order to allow the marketing of a free product edition that requires no manual work at all. Used dual MySQL master setup with automated failover and lighttpd load balancing through FastCGI daemons to achieve higher availability and scalability. Automated bandwidth accounting and quota cutoffs or bandwidth surcharge depending on package. Try a demo - just use the free version. Worked as part of a team, implemented the API calls and backend but not the user interface.

Benefits so far include, project went live 6 months ago:

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Personally engaged with custom work for the following sites (partial list):

Deeply involved in the design and implementation of the store engine that powers sites, such as: Cambridge SoundWorks (a subsidiary of Creative Technology), The Boston Globe Store, Featured Customers.

May 2005 to October 2005
NFSN, LLC - System Administrator (Part time, reporting to company President)

NFSN is a pay-as-you-go web hosting provider operating since 2002. Using load balanced and high availability technologies to provide premium performance and reliability, serving over 5000 sites. The company later transformed into NFSN, Inc.

March 2002 to July 2002
MetaVisia, Ltd. - Web Developer (Reporting to company CEO / co-founder)

MetaVisia is a web development and design company.

Education

September 2000 to July 2003
Angel Kunchev University, Rousse, Bulgaria

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering
Relevant topics covered: Pascal, assembly for 8086, C, DSP programming
Programming projects: traffic lights, building visitors counter
Represented my university as part of a team of 8 students in nationwide mathematical olympiad (2002).

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Zend Certified PHP 5 Engineer (ZCE PHP) PayPal Certified Developer