Skip to content

Latest commit

 

History

History
116 lines (58 loc) · 4.97 KB

Murdho_Savila_CV_2024-03-24_no_phone.md

File metadata and controls

116 lines (58 loc) · 4.97 KB
Raw

Murdho Savila

Renaissance Developer

  • Solution-oriented full-stack developer with over a decade of (mostly remote) professional experience, always striving toward technical excellence
  • Thriving in reasonably-paced environments that benefit from infusing a great understanding of the business domain with expertise across the whole software stack
  • My best work involves optimizing, automating and architecting solutions that have an outsized, yet sustainable positive impact

Skills

  • Software development, design, architecture and leadership, mentorship – getting things done well, both by myself and in a team
  • Full-stack developer with strong frontend, backend, database and infrastructure experience
  • Most proficient in Ruby on Rails (used it since 2012); also experienced with Go, Clojure, SQL (mostly PostgreSQL), Elasticsearch, Vespa.ai
  • Tinkered with and enthusiastic about Rust, WebAssembly, SQLite

Experience

Condensed version – for more details, see linkedin.com/in/murdho.

IPRally | remote | May 2022 – present

Lead Data Engineer (Jan 2024 – present)

  • Ownership, maintenance and development of patent data ingestion and processing pipelines
  • Stewardship of data storage systems (PostgreSQL, Vespa.ai, Cloud Storage) to ensure smooth and easy-to-use data platform for product and AI teams

Senior Software Engineer (May 2022 – Jan 2024)

  • Performance optimization, architectural design and feature development for the boolean query language interpreter powering the patent search engine (backed by self-hosted Vespa.ai)
  • Leading the work for iteratively improving the design of the boolean interpreter to support ever-growing demands through optimizations and wise design decisions

Smartly.io | remote | Jan 2021 – Apr 2022

Lead Software Engineer (Nov 2021 – Apr 2022)

  • Led the specification of target architecture for the feed management platform to enable significantly faster scaling with less maintenance overhead
  • Collaborated with multiple teams across the organization to deliver projects with many moving parts and dependencies
  • Mentored and onboarded new team members with varying levels of experience (junior, mid-level, senior)

Senior Software Engineer (Jan 2021 – Nov 2021)

  • Created an "architecture playbook" for aligning the architectural approaches in the feed management team
  • Built a load testing harness with k6 for understanding the performance limits of a high-load service on a critical path

Positive Learning Ltd | hybrid | Mar 2020 – Dec 2020

Positive Programmer (Senior Software Engineer)

  • Integrated Stripe into Go backend and React.js frontend to provide subscriptions to individual customers

Freska | hybrid | Oct 2018 – Mar 2020

Senior Software Engineer

  • Took ownership of the algorithm and system that calculated the most optimal schedules and routes for service providers to maximize utilization of their working hours (relied heavily on Elasticsearch term-level and geo queries)

Wallester AS | remote | Jan 2018 – Sep 2018

Senior Software Engineer

  • Led the creation of a credit card message processing parser and service that complied ISO 8583 standard for communication with the payment card network
    • The service had a requirement to respond in less than 500ms, which required high discipline to maximize performance, yet keep the code maintainable

Inbank AS | hybrid | Feb 2013 – Sep 2017

Lead Software Developer / Interim CTO (Apr 2015 – Sep 2017)

  • Led the creation of a new loan, hire purchase and deposit platform that processed tens of millions of euros worth of assets already from the start
  • Maintained and performance-tuned credit decision algorithms' engine to give the fastest and most accurate financial decisions in the market (matter of seconds)
  • Developed a new payment schedule generation DSL for significantly reducing complexity and improving the performance of calculating payment schedules (github.com/murdho/payment_schedule)
  • Assumed CTO managerial duties (Sep 2016 – Jun 2017) for a time until a new CTO was found and hired

Software Developer (Feb 2013 – Apr 2015)

  • Software development for corporate customers, building sustainable financial systems
  • Worked together with startups in the early phase, building MVPs

Education

Computer Software Engineering (BSc) | Sep 2012 – May 2016

Estonian Information Technology College – taltech.ee/en/itcollege

Completed 159 credits out of 180 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).

Location

  • Currently living in Helsinki, Finland
  • First appeared in Tallinn, Estonia

Contact