Igors Gulbinskis

Zalando (Berlin, Germany)

E-Commerce

Engineering Manager • March, 2024 — Present

Engineering Lead • December, 2022 — February, 2024

Senior Software Engineer • September, 2016 — November, 2022

Zalando is Europe's leading fashion & lifestyle e-commerce platform with multi-billion EUR yearly revenue. Here I was responsible for developing and operating B2B systems for Zalando's private labels and wholesale business models. Following are some of my contributions:

• Helping private labels business of Zalando to scale and become multichannel by integrating Oracle NetSuite ERP and 3rd party product lifecycle management, supply chain management, invoicing, and financial auditing systems.
• Helping Zalando to merge private labels and wholesale businesses. Introducing new features into shipping, purchase order, and transport management domain applications.
• Contributing to the department's tech infrastructure by introducing continuous deployment pipelines, building monitoring solutions, documenting software and best practices.
• Interviewing candidates for engineering positions in the team and the department. Participating in the hiring decision process and mentoring less experienced peers.
• Leading the team of engineers.

Java, Spring Boot, AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, PostgreSQL, Redis, microservices, REST, Oracle NetSuite, Jitterbit, SOAP, Python, JavaScript

Ericsson (Karlskrona, Sweden)

Telecommunication

Software Engineer • June, 2011 — July, 2016

Ericsson is one of the world's leading networking and telecommunication companies. Here I was responsible for the research and development of products, building proof of concepts, maintenance, technical documentation, and customer support. I contributed to the following projects:

• Flow-through provisioning platform for rapid and automated activation of customer services in a heterogeneous network environment.
• Platform that provided plug-and-play capabilities for fixed broadband services through automatic settings, service provisioning, and supervision.
• Test portal for device vendors for interoperability testing.

• Acted as an on-site integration engineer for a customer in Yokohama, Japan, from April 2015 until June 2015.
• Involved in project and knowledge transfer among teams in Delhi, India, from July 2013 until August 2013.
• Hosted product-related courses for a customer in Rome, Italy, on December 2012.

Java, Python, JavaScript + HTML + CSS, Spring, GlassFish, Apache ZooKeeper, Cassandra, SOAP, IoT

Exigen Services (Riga, Latvia)

Outsourcing

Software Engineer • July, 2007 — January, 2011

Exigen Services used to be among the leading IT services companies in Baltic states, providing solutions for financial and insurance industries. Here I participated in the following customer projects:

• Development of various small enterprise applications for mobile device platforms such as BlackBerry, Android and Nokia.
• Application for aggregation of updates from different external systems such as Twitter, Jive SBS and SAP systems.
• Web application for collection of bank operation statistics and analysis.
• Web-hosted suite of applications that stores, organizes, and coordinates information about the people, projects, and clients involved in consulting business to accomplish variously complicated tasks such as financial control, resource management, etc.

Java, JSP, Flex, JavaScript + HTML + CSS, Apache Tomcat, Oracle Database, MySQL, SQLite, SOAP

University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)

Master Degree in Software Engineering • 2014

Blekinge Institute of Technology (Karlskrona, Sweden)

Erasmus Student Exchange Programme • 2011

University of Latvia (Riga, Latvia)

Bachelor Degree in Computer Science • 2010

Tipspromenad.nu

Gaming

Co-Founder and Software Engineer • 2013 — 2014

Digital solution for traditional Swedish game Tipspromenad - mix of quiz and hiking.

Programming languages

• Proficient skills in Java and related frameworks
• Intermediate skills in JavaScript + HTML + CSS stack and shell scripting
• Novice skills in Clojure, Scala and Python

Databases

MySQL, Oracle, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Redis

Other technologies

AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Git, SVN, Jenkins, Maven, Tomcat, GlassFish, SOAP, REST, microservices, etc.

• English (fluent)
• Russian (native)
• Latvian (native)
• German (elementary)
• Portuguese (elementary)

Ethereum Blockchain Developer Bootcamp With Solidity • 2021

Credential of Readiness, Harvard Business School Online • 2020

Financial Markets, Coursera • 2020

Investment Management Specialization, Coursera • 2020

Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera • 2019

Machine Learning, Coursera • 2015

Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 7 Programmer • 2015

Functional Programming Principles in Scala, Coursera • 2015