Summary
Oleg Balykin is a pragmatic full‑stack software engineer and entrepreneur based in Portugal with over two decades of commercial involvement and 12 years of focused professional experience building e-commerce platforms. He designs, develops and operates his own e-commerce system while previously co-founding online shops and leading a high‑traffic retail site serving 25–30k daily unique visitors. His technical background spans PHP/CakePHP, MySQL, caching and search (Memcached, Sphinx), Linux web stack, plus front-end work with jQuery/Bootstrap, and he has hands-on experience automating supplier, logistics and admin subsystems. Oleg also brings diverse early-career experience in IP‑telephony, Ruby on Rails front-end work, game engine tooling and teaching, which surfaces in a practical, tool-oriented approach to problem solving. He prefers end-to-end ownership—architecting systems, optimizing performance, and managing distributed developer teams to keep fast-growing shops running smoothly.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer