VIKTORAS
BEZARAS
Hello, my name is Viktoras Bezaras. I have been developing software professionally for over 14 years, 3 of which in leading positions. I'm passionate about teamwork and communication between developers, managers and stakeholders to ensure the project's success. I enjoy sharing knowledge to bolster professional growth of the team, as well as learning from others.
Head of development @ LeasingMarkt, Düsseldorf 03/2022 - now
LeasingMarkt GmbH is the market leader in auto leasing in Germany. My mission was to lead multiple developer teams.
PHP MariaDB Laravel Javascript Redis Pest Software Architecture Git Agile Gitlab CI/CDCTO @ SportSpar, Leipzig 07/2019 - 03/2022
SportSpar is an e-Commerce company processing thousands of orders per day. My tasks ranged from planing and high level technical decision making to designing a project architecture and hands-on development.
- Hired, organised and managed a team of 7 developers
- Established team-oriented agile development processes
- Introduced quality standards and automated them via CI/CD processes
- Designed and hands-on developed internal tools and projects
- Developed and maintained infrastructure for internal projects
Integrations Lead / Developer @ TraSo, Leipzig 05/2014 - 06/2019
TraSo GmbH builds a backend software for tour operators to place billions of travel offers on the market every day.
- Quickly worked into the legacy code without handover
- Took over the dreaded Hotels-module and gradually improved it to be the most stable part of the system
- Drastically reduced the amount of errors with thousands of Unit-Tests
- Connected and maintained a multitude of new services/APIs, overall tripling their number
- Took over customer and partner communication
- Took over further domains: booking and transfer interfaces, OTDS export
- Organised, took over and mentored the integrations team
Senior Developer @ meets-ecommerce, Niesky 06/2013 – 05/2014
meets-ecommerce GmbH was an e-commerce startup with a vision to develop a management system for various sales platforms.
- Designed and developed a microservice based application
- Developed integrations with e-commerce platforms such as Magento
PHP Developer @ netforge, Berlin 01/2011 – 04/2013
netforge GmbH & Co. KG is a company with an online dating platform. For the internal processes the company needed an accounting management system.
- Employed after successful work as an external contractor
- Developed an accounting management system based on Symfony and Doctrine
- Over time developed a variety of new features, including advertising modules, multi-tenancy, etc
- Worked 100% remotely and independently
PHP Developer @ WEB-SHOP-HOSTING, Berlin 03/2010 – 12/2010
On my first projects in Germany I worked as a contractor. WEB-SHOP-HOSTING specializes in e-commerce hosting and web development.
- Developed a Symfony-based CMS-System
- Developed a Drupal-based Website for Teamdrive GmbH
PHP Developer @ RedFortress, Saint Petersburg 07/2008 – 03/2010
RedFortress is a SEO and web development company.
- Developed and maintained Pizza und Sushi delivery websites
- Developed internal tools for SEO
Postgraduate in computer science10/2008 – 09/2009
Herzen State Pedagogical University (Abandoned to move to Germany)
Degree in information systems and technologies09/2003 – 07/2008
State University for Waterways Communications, Saint Petersburg
State Exam: Excellent
Final qualification thesis: "Development of the information system based using XML technology on the example of the RSS service": Excellent