Responsibilities:

• Single Page Applications development
• QA automatisation, including complicated tasks that can be performed only by bots: simulating the user actions by sending OS input signals, opening one application on top of another one, etc
• Maintenance of a continuous integration system (CI itself and UNIX servers for it). Just to clarify: in my opinion CI is closely tied to code quality and QA, so it makes sense that developers, and not the ops, are responsible for it (unless DevOps is practiced)
• Data analysis
• Development of various SDKs for media agencies and the following support: documentation, screencasts, webinars

Other activities:

• Teaching web-development, covering topics such as front-end, back-end, UNIX, UX, QA, performance and how to reduce costs without affecting end product quality in big projects
• Coaching, e.g. Rail Girls events
• Workshops

In this post, I undertook the following primary responsibilities:

• Redesigning high-load websites (that is, those with more than 30 million hits/100 million page views a month). This was completed to challenging deadlines by organizing and leading teams of between five and ten developers
• Streamlining the architecture of projects by adopting and adapting cutting-edge technologies
• Enhancing brand identity
• Shortening development time by reconfiguring workflows and switching to service-oriented architecture
• Creating tailor-made development and testing tools
• Integrating a quality assurance division into the development process

Additional responsibilities included:

• Devising the department’s development strategy
• Undertaking liaison and co-operation with other company departments
• Hiring, training, supervising and mentoring staff
• Overseeing research and development

This role involved:

• The design of system architectures
• Liaising with other RBC divisions
• Hiring, training, supervising and mentoring staff – many of whom are still with RBC
• Overseeing research and development
• Writing project documentation and introducing programming techniques
• Helping other divisions to contribute to the workflow more efficiently by asking them what problems they faced and suggesting solutions
• Writing coding standards and overseeing their implementation throughout the company

I joined RBC just after a some highly accomplished front-end developers had left, so I had to take over – and successfully complete – a number of complex projects.

In this job, I was responsible for:

• JavaScript programming (Rich Internet Applications and visual effects)
• HTML coding for mobile phones and the main internet browsers

I also had to make presentations dealing with:

• JavaScript unit testing
• JavaScript frameworks
• JavaScript project design (architecture)

Finally, I changed development workflows so that front-end developers started to work with a version control system, Linux command line and real templates (rather than static files).