Playing clarinet - Jazz, Forrò, Choro
Dima Ofman
Senior Full-Stack Web(3) Developer
Castagneto Po
Summary
Senior Full Stack Web Developer and generalist software engineer with 17 years of experience spanning from IoT, data processing pipelines including NLP and ML, full stack web development to a more recent focus in Web3 technologies. Highly analytical, meticulous and detail-oriented, but also creative and deeply empathic. Extremely effective, collaborative and self-reliant in a distributed team, with over 11 years of experience in an international remote work context, seeking a full-time, remote position.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Full Stack Web3 Software Developer
Freelance
10.2023 - 05.2024
- Streamlined NFT portfolio management by automating listing and sales pricing and discounting via OpenSea API integrations.
- Led frontend and backend development of playlist management features, optimizing authentication flows (JWT, token refresh), refining GraphQL API (file uploads, caching), and enhancing UI/UX for poem rendering. Upgraded infrastructure (Next.js, Webpack, Docker) and improved text formatting logic.
Software Engineering Team Lead
Ante Finance
09.2022 - 09.2023
- Led development of a substantial DeFi protocol revision with configurable two-sided staking pools, passing two audits with zero severe issues and deploying across multiple chains.
- Managed multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining strict adherence to deadlines and quality standards.
- Designed and developed a message persistence protocol and relayer for committing merklized offchain content onchain.
- Developed and optimized backend services for onchain analytics, data indexing and protocol monitoring.
- Led a team of 3 engineers in the planning, development and deployment of a series MVP web3 apps in the DeFi space on an ambitious bi-weekly release schedule to accelerate PMF discovery.
- Integrated twitter authentication flows and Telegram chat bots to streamline UI flows and increase inbound conversions.
- Performed regular security audits on community written smart contracts to maintain high quality protocol standards.
Web3 Full Stack Developer
Ante.finance
08.2021 - 11.2021
- Analyzed DeFi protocols to identify invariants for drafting on-chain unit tests.
- Implemented and deployed on-chain protocol unit tests on Ethereum.
- Developed backend services for harvesting and persisting on-chain events to off-chain persistent data stores.
- Developed frontend dashboard pages for protocols integrating on-chain and backend data sources.
Generative Artist
Art Blocks / Asemi.ca
11.2021 - 11.2021
- Developed an explorative generative art project in asemic writing and generative digital typography in Javascript with two collaborators over a three month period.
- Released a generative art collection of 980 editions called "Asemica" on Art Blocks as part of the Season 5 Curated series, selling out in under 30 minutes.
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
Mixily.com
10.2020 - 06.2021
- Developed an embedded in-browser video calling platform in one month, earning #1 ranking on Product Hunt on launch day.
- Built live video streaming integration into an embedded virtual venue for ticketed online events, creating new revenue streams for clients during a global pandemic.
- Designed and implemented concurrent access control to protect exclusive paid streaming content.
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
Merchbar.com
09.2014 - 10.2020
- Built an artist mapping algorithm and API for a potential Spotify partnership in record time and with better coverage than they had ever seen, leading to a collaboration that increased web traffic by over 200%.
- Designed and developed a custom multi-vendor shopping cart from scratch, increasing average order value by over 40%.
- Developed multiple payment provider integrations including PayPal, Apple Pay and Amazon Pay, increasing revenue over 33%.
- Developed a custom multi-variate testing backend integration, improving checkout funnel conversion rates through data-driven A/B tested UX improvements.
- Developed and trained a neural network micro service for automatically classifying catalog product images.
- Leveraged excellent time management, self-reliance and communication skills to effectively and consistently produce quality work in a remote, autonomous, asynchronous context.
- Contributed to building one of the world's largest and richest databases of physical music media and merchandise by integrating multiple vendor platforms and mining external sources of metadata.
Full Stack Web Developer
TomorrowData
05.2014 - 09.2014
- Designed and implemented a web server for managing and coordinating a real-time distributed network of intelligent sensors.
- Increased event detection quality by implementing neural network improvements in the embedded board firmware.
- Designed and developed an extension to an open source XMPP server to forward messages to an HTTP endpoint.
Web Developer
Hackpad.com
06.2013 - 02.2014
- Set up a Continuous Integration system greatly shortening the development–testing feedback cycle, automatically informing the team of the stability of new code.
- Increased search result relevance by implementing document-based popularity boosting Implemented new features to streamline user content organization, improving pad management and retrieval.
- Diagnosed and fixed stability issues in the online editor resulting in a 90% drop of corruption-related support tickets.
- Improved server performance through heap analysis reducing memory consumption by 15% and increasing stability during peak load times.
Co-Founder and Web Developer
Jotleaf.com
11.2012 - 05.2013
- Developed a real-time collaborative UI for multimedia content creation and grew the site to about 15,000 registered users and a few thousand visitors per day.
- Contributed to all aspects of the project, including full stack development, analytics, visual and UX design, and marketing.
Software Engineer/NLP Generalist
Celi SRL
09.2007 - 10.2012
- Applied machine learning techniques on large data sets to analyze user search behavior.
- Designed domain-specific languages and implemented their compilers for phonetic transcription and word disambiguation business rules
- Developed a highly configurable backend processing pipeline for search log analysis in Java/Spring.
- Worked closely with linguists to codify expert domain knowledge into software.
- Developed web crawlers and scrapers for building text corpora.
- Designed and implemented a Romanian language module for a prominent Text-To-Speech vendor with a 800KB compiled binary size constraint in C.
Education
Course Work in ML/AI/NLP/CS
Coursera
Online 09.2011 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering, International Engineering
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 08.2003 - 05.2007
Skills
Solidity, Hardhat, Ethers
Python, TypeScript, Javascript, React, GraphQL, SQL, C, Java, HTML5, Less/Sass/CSS
Nodejs, Nextjs, Expressjs, Django, Tornado, Celery, AWS, Heroku
Postgres, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, Algolia
Machine Learning, NLP, Text To Speech
API integrations: Twitter, Telegram, Stripe, PayPal, Amazon Pay, Shopify, Instagram/Facebook Shopping
Fluent Italian Speaker
Project Management, Mentoring, Onboarding
Interests
Generative Art, Maker culture - arduino, electronics, building and flying FPV drones
Fluent in Italian, proficient in Russian, intermediate French and Portuguese
Timeline
Full Stack Web3 Software Developer
Freelance
10.2023 - 05.2024
Software Engineering Team Lead
Ante Finance
09.2022 - 09.2023
Generative Artist
Art Blocks / Asemi.ca
11.2021 - 11.2021
Web3 Full Stack Developer
Ante.finance
08.2021 - 11.2021
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
Mixily.com
10.2020 - 06.2021
Senior Full Stack Web Developer
Merchbar.com
09.2014 - 10.2020
Full Stack Web Developer
TomorrowData
05.2014 - 09.2014
Web Developer
Hackpad.com
06.2013 - 02.2014
Co-Founder and Web Developer
Jotleaf.com
11.2012 - 05.2013
Course Work in ML/AI/NLP/CS
Coursera
09.2011 - Current
Software Engineer/NLP Generalist
Celi SRL
09.2007 - 10.2012
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering, International Engineering
University of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign
08.2003 - 05.2007