Front-End Architect at Cogniance
Ukraine
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- Front-End Architect at Cogniance
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- Senior Front-End Engineer at Sonopia Corporation
- Front-End Engineer at Sonopia Corporation
- Front-End Engineer at XHTMLized
- Freelance Front-End Web Developer (Self-employed)
- Education
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- National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'
- Kyiv Lyceum "Leader"
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Vladimir Agafonkin’s Summary
An experienced front-end web developer with a wide background in front-end architecture, accessibility and web standards based solutions, currently focusing on heavy JavaScript development tasks (framework/API creation).
Has experience of working on large-scale web applications, implementing complex UI functionality, mentoring other front-end engineers. Enjoys learning modern technologies and programming languages like Ruby and Python. Supports and prefers Open Source software.
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Specialties:
front-end architecture, JavaScript, Ajax, XHTML, CSS, web standards, accessibility, progressive enhancement, semantic web, microformats
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Experience
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Front-End Architect
Cogniance
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Leading the front-end engineering team at Cogniance, a full-service software consultancy specializing in complex, leading edge projects for early stage venture backed technology companies.
Currently responsible for the development of a JavaScript API for CloudMade, a mapping company created to professionalise and package geo data from OpenStreetMap, a global initiative to create a free, editable map of the world from user-generated input. -
Senior Front-End Engineer
Sonopia Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
November 2007 — March 2008 (5 months)
Responsible for the overall front-end architecture of the company product. Providing research, refactoring and optimization of existing code. Implementing new client-side components. Mentoring and helping other front-end engineers.
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Front-End Engineer
Sonopia Corporation
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Wireless industry)
December 2006 — October 2007 (11 months)
Crafted XHTML/CSS markup and developed JavaScript components for a large-scale web application (Sonopia, a platform for micro-segmentation in the mobile subscriber market).
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Front-End Engineer
XHTMLized
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)
Converted numerous designs into accessible XHTML/CSS pages. Provided unobtrusive JavaScript functionality to various projects. Utilized widely adopted JavaScript frameworks (Prototype, jQuery, YUI, Ext, Mootools) when necessary.
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Freelance Front-End Web Developer
Self-employed
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
November 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 1 month)
Provided front-end development services to various clients all over the world.
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Education
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National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'
Applied Mathematics 2003 — 2008
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Kyiv Lyceum "Leader"
Math 1999 — 2003
Additional Information
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Websites:
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Interests:
composing music, playing guitar, singing, mountain bike travelling, friends; front-end architecture, UI design, usability, Ruby (programming language)
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Groups:
Web Standards Group (WSG)
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Cogniance, Inc
Vladimir Agafonkin’s Honors:
Speaker at UA Web 2008, "JavaScript and accessibility of web applications"
Grand Prize for Textplates (web design and development contest), 2006
First Runner Up for Textplates, 2007
