Pavel Kotlov
Pavel Kotlov
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Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
Bio

Hi, my name is Pavel.

After a decade of combined experience in the retail and education industries, I am pursuing my passion for technology by becoming a web developer. Beyond my work experience, I hold a BBA majoring in Accounting and a diploma in Web Development.

My tech journey started in 2021 while visiting my family in Ecuador, where I had the opportunity to assist with the family's clothing business. Tapping into my retail experience, I revamped existing policies to drive a more consumer-centric business model. Yet despite the changes, a lack of automation solutions hindered customer satisfaction and employee morale. As a tech enthusiast, I challenged myself to find an off-the-shelf solution within the business's budget. However, none were flexible enough to meet the new business requirements. Undeterred, I independently learned to code and built an order management system (OMS) using Python and SQL, which we implemented by the end of spring 2022. Since then, the business has grown and expanded rapidly, resulting in nearly a doubling of YoY revenue.

This experience cemented my passion for software development and pushed me to enroll in the rigorous 12-week web development program at Lighthouse Labs, which I completed in April 2023. Since then, I have continued growing by learning to build scaleable applications using the microservices architecture and working on upgrading the OMS at our family's business.

When I am not working, you will find me exploring the world, reading books, watching engineering shows, playing with my cats, or spending quality time with family and friends. A fun fact about myself is that I've lived on four continents, visited 18 countries, and can communicate freely in 4 languages.

I am excited to connect and bring my positive and open mindset alongside a diverse set of soft and technical skills to your project.

Portals
Categories
Website development Mobile app development Security (cybersecurity and IT security) Software development Networking

Skills

Cascading style sheets (css) 1 Hypertext markup language (html) 1 Needs assessment 1 Php (scripting language) 1

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Achievements

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Work experience

ESL Teacher Contractor
VIPKID HK LIMITED
Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada
April 2019 - Current

I Provide one-on-one English tutoring lessons to children between the ages of 4-16 on the VIPKid platform as an independent contractor. To date, I have taught 682 students with varying levels of English proficiency over nearly 10,000 online lessons while maintaining the highest rating for a teacher of 5 stars. I personalize each lesson to ensure students easily comprehend complex language rules through attention to detail. Furthermore, I create a positive and engaging learning environment by actively engaging students, demonstrating patience, and providing positive reinforcement, resulting in a 60% course completion rate.

Customer Services Supervisor
Staples Canada ULC
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
October 2016 - March 2019

At Staples, my primary role was to lead, coach, and support a team of 17 associates who were responsible for front-end services (Tech Center, Print and Marketing, and Customer Services). In addition, during customer interactions I demonstrated problem-solving and empathy by actively listening to SMB customers, asking open-ended questions, and creating complete solutions that achieved both short and long-term customer success, generating 2.2 million in sales. Furthermore, I worked tirelessly to strengthen B2B relationships by delivering results within tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment while managing up to 7 accounts simultaneously.

Education

Diploma, Web Development
Lighthouse Labs
February 2023 - April 2023
Level 5 Certificate, Spanish
Université de Saint-Boniface
September 2019 - June 2020
Bachelor's, Business Administration and Accounting
University of Winnipeg
July 2013 - June 2018

Personal projects

Codi
April 2023 - April 2023

Say goodbye to boring study sessions. Codi's flashcard-based app makes memorizing coding concepts fun and engaging. The user creates "decks" of flashcards, with each card consisting of a question and an answer. Then, during a quiz session, the user is presented with cards due for review. Each card is then rated by the user as one of 4 options again, hard, good, or easy. Through a special algorithm based on spaced repetition, a technique from cognitive science for improving memorization, the user's rating is weighed and a new review date is assigned to each card. The more frequently a user rates their card as easy the further in time the newly assigned review date will be and vice versa. This was a team project that went from concept to deployment in 10 days to showcase all the skills learned during Lighthouse Labs.

Jungle
April 2023 - April 2023

A mini e-commerce application built with Rails 6.1. Jungle allows a consumer to add and remove products from a cart. In addition, the shop owner can create new categories of products, and add new products to each category. Finally, the consumer can sum up their order and checkout using Stripe's API to process the payment.

Interview Scheduler
March 2023 - March 2023

The Interview Scheduler app assists students by tracking upcoming interviews. Utilizing React for the front end and a Postgres database for the back end, this SPA (single-page application) enables users to book, edit, and cancel scheduled interviews in real time. The client and server apps communicate over HTTP using Axios requests. Also, best practices of Test Driven Development were followed during the building of all the app's components. Testing frameworks used during this project were Jest, Storybooks, and Cypress to enable unit, integration, and End-to-end (E2E) testing.

Tweeter
February 2023 - March 2023

Tweeter is a simple, single-page Twitter clone that was created to learn and practice the principles of vanilla CSS and gain hands-on experience with the jQuery library.

TinyApp
February 2023 - February 2023

TinyApp is a full-stack web application built with Node and Express on the back end and bootstrap on the front end. TinyApp allows users to shorten long URLs (à la bit.ly). The main focus of this application was to experiment with and learn about building a server with Express, user authentication, cookie sessions, front-end frameworks, password hashing, and cookie encryption.