Dzengiz Tafa

In the world of ICT it's hard not be an enthousiast with technologies evolving at an unprecedented pace. I am thrilled to be on this evolution roller coaster. I feel especially at home in the world of web development and web technologies in general. I was originally bitten by React and its ecosystem like no other framework has and I am hooked ever since (pun intended).

After successfully constructing own solution designs, thinking out of the box, and instigating a new MFE architecture from draft to the first line of code, ending with a fully deployed MFE architecture raising millions in revenue I have outgrown my developer role.

I have now started my journey in Architecture as a Domain Architect at Gaming1. Here I can continue to do what I do best... Training, coaching and out of the box thinking to bridge the gap between business needs and the developers, all the while bringing out the best in them to watch them grow in their own carreer path

Next to that I am also a weather enthousiast beholding the weather in all its glory with a keen interest in Data visualisation and photograph

Software Domain Architect

GAMING1 Apr 2022 - Present 

Liège, Walloon Region, BelgiumLiège, Walloon Region, Belgium

* Overseen multiple launches of new operations by guiding teams in creation and maintenance of web and mobile channels.
* Bridging the gap between business and delivery by collecting requirements, having both 1-1 and group sessions and event storming sessions while translating those requirements for all parties, predominantly in the marketing domain in terms of acquisition.
* Aiding in creating a domain driven landscape while reconciling the new landscape with the monolithical legacy codebase.
* Working on various POC's for finding ways to succesfully migrate away from the monolith and adopting new technologies such as RabbitMQ and Nservice bus to allow for an event driven architecture in a domain driven context.
* Making sure the day to day business keeps running while endeavors have started to do the migration into the new domain driven landscape, all the while molding the mindset from a monolithical mindset to a domain driven one.
* Guided the teams in the adoption of MMP's and other analytical tools to provide both web and performance analytics to the marketeers in an effort to optimize marketing campaigns.
* With a stong focus on the players, guiding both business and delivery in implementing techniques to optimize conversions, solve various KPI's, expanding the possibilities and liase with various stakeholders in the search for a healthy balance between business needs, delivery and the target architecture.
* Planning quarterly roadmaps to allow for a smooth delivery by tailoring to business needs, liaising with other domain architects and presenting the plan to stakeholders and external parties.
* Managing the project from a holistic perspective by following up on both architecture, delivery, stakeholders and partners and making sure the dance between all parties involved stays harmonous and coordinated.

Senior Full Stack DeveloperSenior Full Stack Developer

TUI · Full-timeTUI · Full-timeFeb 2020 - Apr 2022 ·

Ostend, Flemish Region, BelgiumOstend, Flemish Region, Belgium

* Responsible to help facilitate a digital transformation program aimed at migrating each separate TUI market technology stack into a global One Selling Platform for Flight Only
* Pulling the Belgian web-team forward in using the most recent UI technologies by both group and 1-1 training, knowledge transfer sessions and support.
* Maintaining and improving the React TUI-UI library to be used by all developers for all markets by adding and refactoring components aiming at a fast transition to the OSP.
* Spearheaded research in breaking the application monolith up into a microservice / microfrontend architecture by setting up the guidelines for the transition into said architecture, creating multiple POC’s and solution designs to finalize a solution going forward.
* A main driver in cross team hackathons and kt-sessions on how to develop their own microfrontends by acting as a consultant for all pods, teams and markets.
* Aided in development of several MFE’s from the first line of code to deployment on AWS-services, having their own CICD pipeline and infrastructure through code.
* Onboarding new developers and getting them up to speed by kt-sessions, training and pair programming sessions.
* A member of the TUI Architecture forum with weekly meetings on upcoming changes regarding infrastructure, solutions and discussing architecture design reviews.

Lead Full Stack DeveloperLead Full Stack Developer

Ateljee VZW · Full-timeAteljee VZW · Full-timeJan 2015 - Feb 2020

Gent, Vlaanderen, BelgiëGent, Vlaanderen, België

* Responsible to migrate the loosely attached google drive documents into a complete internal application and infrastructure to handle customer accounts and courses.
* Created a solid database using a NoSQL solution to start Data migration into a database to work with.
* Set up a failover cluster infrastructure to deploy the new application, using MS Server 2016 Hyper V core and installing Virtual machines as ADDS, file- and webservers.
* Written a complete full stack application using React-Redux in the frontend and providing various API’s using NodeJS & ExpressJS while working closely with business to adhere to their needs and setting up an agile environment to start work.
* Doing job interviews to have new talent join the effort and onboarding them into the new application by both infrastructure, development and agile training.

Front End Developer 2018 – 2020

Syntra West

AWS essentials 2019

Amazon Web Services

Developing on AWS 2019

Amazon Web Services

Android nanodegree by Google 2017 – 2018

Udacity – Google

MERN stack front to back 2017 – 2018

Udemy

Train the trainer 2015

AteljeeVZW – Stad Gent

Bachelor IT 2002 – 2004