Autobiography
Мy name is Dzianis Kotau. I'm Solutions Architect, Zend Certified PHP Engineer and PHP Web Developer. My long-term curiosity with computers began in the mid-90s, when my parents bought our first computer for me and my brother.
In 2004 while studying on the second year at the university I was hired as a system administrator to my local ISP. I was an administrator assistant of Gaming Resources. And after administrator left for a competitor company, I was offered a position of Team Lead of internal entertainment resources. So, for the first time I seriously began to engage in administration and programming and received a small but satisfactory payment as a student. The work included design and implementation of game resources, media resources, chats, forums, sites. Here is an incomplete list of what I worked with (installation, configuration and development):
- Gentoo Linux
- Apache
- Nginx
- PHP
- MySQL
- World of WarCraft
- Call of Duty 2
- Call of Duty 4
- Call of Duty 5
- Team Fortress
- Lineage
- Jabber
- DC++
- Torrent
At this time, I began seriously learning PHP, getting involved in web development and system administration. Working with provider company in my student years had put a solid foundation for my IT future.
After the university I sent my resume to IBA-Gomel. I got invitation to the company after interview with HR, a computer test for knowledge of PHP and English and personal conversation with the CEO.
I have been collaborating with IBA-Gomel since August 2010 and until September 2021. Over the years, I took part in several interesting projects at IBM France, IBM USA, Berlin Bus and German Medical Research project. I grew up from a junior developer to a Solutions Architect.
Since October 2021 I collaborate with Innowise Group. I continue to work as Architect and PHP Web Developer.
And since 2015 I also do PHP mentor and train of new employees and trainees.
I used and continue to use following technologies:
- PHP
- JS
- Symfony
- Laravel
- Linux
- DB2
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- Microservices
- Cloud
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- Jira
- Asana
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- git
- PHPStorm
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