Greetings!

My name is Artur Basak.

I am a second generation Programmer.

And for more than 13 years I have been solving problems using Web Technologies as a Software Engineer.

My career path

2010 - Quality Assurance Engineer at *instinctools EE Labs
2012 - Software Engineer at *instinctools EE Labs
2015 - Senior Software Engineer at *instinctools EE Labs
2017 - Lead Software Engineer at *instinctools EE Labs
2018 - Trainer at Hi-Tech Park Belarus: IT-Academy
2019 - Lead UI/Web Engineer at Indy (ex-Tispr, ex-BuddyHOPP)
2021 - Software Engineering Manager at Godel Technologies
2022 - Senior Software Engineer at IntexSoft

I helped companies or projects of

World wide management consulting company from Top 3, Kohl's, Daimler, SAP, Lition, Tispr, NextGate, Florence Healthcare, True Impact, instinctools, Saitodrom, Godel Technologies, Kanda Software, Evonik Industries, Westernacher Consulting, Penton Media, Thumbtack, SoftServe, ThoughtWorks, CROC, Sibur Holding, and others.

My education path

2007 - Baranovichi Gymnasium - Computer Science Class
School Programming (Pascal, Intal)

Took part in regional and city Olympiads in Informatics

Training Network Olympiads - Moscow (Pascal), under mentoring of Shevchenko T.G.
2011 - Technological College, Educational Institution the GRSU

Speciality:

Software of Information Technologies

Specialization:

Programming for computer–aid design systems

Qualification:

Technician-programmer
2015 - Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno / GRSU (incomplete)

Faculty:

Mathematics and Informatics

Specialization:

Information Technology Software

Qualification:

Software Engineer
Ongoing - MOOC platforms like Coursera, edX, CodeSchool, egghead, FrontendMasters, Linkedin Learning, etc. I have a few professional certificates from W3Cx

My technical path

School time (2003) - CLI and GUI with ASCII symbols, Turbo Pascal CRT and Graph modules
College time (2007) - Desktop GUI with VCL and Borland Delphi, Borland C++
2010 - Desktop and Web GUIs with AWT, Eclipse SWT, RCP/RAP, JFace, qooxdoo.js
2012 - Web UI with jQuery UI, jQuery Mobile and JavaServer Faces (JSF), XHTML
2013 - Web UI with Sencha ExtJS, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Documentum Webtop
2014 - Web UI with Angular.js, Backbone.js, SASS/SCSS, LESS
2015 - Web UI with Ember.js and Handlebars Templates, MEAN, Meteor, Bootstrap
2016 - Web UI with React.js, JSX, Redux and Mobx
2018 - Web UI with Next.js, Headless CMS and React VR/360
Ongoing - JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Web API

My tools

My first computer: Intel Pentium III
My current computer: Intel Core i9
My favorite OS: MacOS (Unix)
My favorite browser: Brave (Chromium)
My favorite IDE: WebStorm
My favorite shell command: ls -la
My favorite paradigm: Object-Oriented

My articles

Smashing Magazine - How To Configure Application Color Schemes With CSS Custom Properties
Better Programming - UI Kit + Design System = DesignOps
Better Programming - 5 Tips to Help Improve Your UI Development Environment
Better Programming - A Visual Tutorial on Every Type of Test You Can Write
Habr.com - Знай свой инструмент: Event Loop в libuv

My speeches

GROCON 2019 - Test Automation strategy for Legacy System [RU]
Grodno JS Meetup - Web Accessibility. What is it? [RU]
GROCON 2018 - GrodnoVR - My first and last experience with ReactVR [RU]

My professional interests

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Web Technologies, UI Programming, Engineering Management, Automated Testing, Graphic Design, Typography, UX and Accessibility, Immersive Web

My top of professional books

The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Fred Brooks
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, Alan Cooper
The Best Interface Is No Interface, Golden Krishna
Don't Make Me Think, Steve Krug
Test Driven Development: By Example, Kent Beck
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship, Robert Martin
You Don't Know JS, Kyle Simpson