Jack Spektor

Jack Spektor

Sitecore Technical Lead

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About Me

Full Stack .Net Developer with more than 14 years of experience in IT. 5 times awarded as Sitecore MVP professional. I have excellent knowledge in .NET technology stack, as well as experienced in JAMStack and transitioning of traditional systems to JAMStack. Pro-active, target-oriented, communicative and reliable. I like to share knowledge and never stop learning.

Contact Information

  • Location: Auckland, NZ

Skills & Expertise

Advanced

Sitecore CMS (XM/XP and XM Cloud), C#/.NET, MSSQL database, ASP.NET MVC, WCF/SignalR, MSTest/NUnit TDD, Entity Framework/NHibernate ORM, TFS/GIT, GitLab/GitHub/Team City/Octopus CI/CD, Powershell, HTML/Javascript/CSS, Docker/Kubernetes, jQuery, Unity/NInject/Castle IoC, Rhino Mocks/Moq frameworks, Algolia/Coveo/Solr search engines

Confident

Javascript/Typescript, NodeJS, NextJS, React/React Native, GraphQL, Apollo Client, MySQL/MongoDB, Prisma ORM, Grunt/Gulp, Umbraco, Strapi, Wordpress

Professional Experience

Sitecore Technical Lead at AKQA

October 2018Current

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Sitecore .Net Developer at Cucumber

October 2014October 2018

Responsibilities: • Development of new websites on Sitecore and Umbraco CMS • Support for the existing websites • Front-end support and styling for the websites • Business requirements analysis, estimation and communication with the customer and product owner • Deployment of new features to the testing and production environments • Automation of deployment processes for the website builds

Portal for the Australia and New Zealand seeds distributor Technologies: .NET, Sitecore CMS, ASP.NET MVC, Castle.Windsor, jQuery, Less, GruntJS, TeamCity, Octopus Goal: Create a portal website for Australia and New Zealand branches, provide ability to login, personalize content based on location and search for products. The site had to support future extension with a large number of modular microsite website, which required attention to site architecture decisions. Result: The project was completed in time; all functionality was well-tested and documented. Portal for the major NZ agriculture company Technologies: .NET, WCF, Sitecore CMS, ASP.NET MVC, NUnit, Castle.Windsor, Angular.js, jQuery, Grunt Goal: Create a portal website with the ability to login, register, view invoices/statements and reports for the customers. The website development included integration with MailChimp API and AddressFinder API. Also website included a number of microsites that shared logic and data. Result: As a result of a teamwork the project received a Sitecore award, gone live in time and led to another major website build from the same client. Portal for the major pharmaceutical company Technologies: .NET, Sitecore CMS, ASP.NET WebForms, Grunt, NUnit, jQuery Goal: Extend the functionality of the existing website and add ability to personalize content based on the current website user type, introduce user profile functionality. Also the scope of the project included the extension of the framework for the creation of the microsites. Result: The project was well-tested completed in time.

Website for financial services for major NZ retail network Technologies: .NET, Sitecore CMS, ASP.NET Razor, Gulp, jQuery, Octopus Goal: Perform a site redesign to improve user experience, add personalization capabilities as well as to restructure the content structure. Result: The project was completed in time and with a good quality

.Net Lead Developer at Some Nonprofit

February 2013October 2014

Responsibilities: • Development of solutions and tools for IT/telecom area • Support and customization of the product • Collaboration with team members and customers • Management of the team and planning of the product feature releases

Projects: CoreAPI Technologies: .NET, WCF, NHibernate, NInject, Rhino.Mocks, NUnit, SCFB, MySQL, CruiseControl.NET Goal: Extend call-recording software web-service with additionally functionality. During the development big emphasis was set on the compatibility with previous and future versions of the web-service interface. Result: The project was completed in time; all functionality was well-tested and documented. Softphone Automation Test Framework Technologies: .NET, WCF, WinForms, Rhino.Mocks, NUnit, CruiseControl.NET, MySQL, MEF, SilkTest Workbench Goal: The customer was a Netherlands telecom company which is producing software for the IP telephony. The requirement was to implement framework which will enable QA engineers to

automate softphone application testing. This included a development set of tools for QA- engineers, which they could use in order to define a testing scenario.

Result: The project was completed in time, well tested and documented; the project was widely used in the company by several automation teams.

Sitecore .Net Developer at Ciklum

November 2011February 2013

Responsibilities:

  • Development of Sitecore intranet portal
  • Support and customization of the product
  • Collaboration with team members and customers

Social Intranet Link: http://www.oxygenintranet.dk/ Technologies: ASP.NET, WCF, HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, Sitecore, Sitecore Intranet Portal, Lucene.Net Goal: The development of the intranet portal which is based on Sitecore Intranet Portal with the addition of social features (activity stream, like, comments, notifications, groups, etc.) Achievement: Implemented robust project architecture, as a result project was easy to extend and customize for the specific customer. Performed optimization using caching and indexing for the project, as a result websites performed well under high-load. Result: The product was sold several times to different customers of the client and much improved financial report of the company in the end of the year.

.Net Developer at Sigma Software

October 2010November 2011

Responsibilities:

  • Development of web and desktop solutions for customers
  • Debugging and analysis of found bugs
  • Collaboration with team members and customers

Projects: Platina Integration Technologies: ASP.NET, HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery, MSSQL, WCF, WiX Goal: Platina is a DMS that is widely used in Sweden. The requirement was to extend the system and integrate with already developed document archiving solution. Achievement: The product performed well under load-testing. Result: The product development was done in time and shipped to the customer. Oggifinogi (Collective) Technologies: ASP.NET, ASP.NET MVC, WF, WCF, Rhino.Mocks, MSTest, HTML/CSS/JS, jQuery Goal: Collective is a US company that is managing one of the largest US video-ad networks. I was working on development of self-service application which will enable customers to create preroll video ads by themselves. Achievement: Investigated huge codebase and integrated self-service web-application with system services. Result: The project was completed in time and integrated with internal ad-management system.

Achievements

Sitecore MVP

Sitecore

For regular contributions to Sitecore CMS developer community I was awarded with Sitecore MVP status by Sitecore.

🎤 SUGCON India speaker, SUGCON ANZ speaker

🥇 Technology Sitecore MVP 2018, 2019, 2021, 2024

🥇 Commerce Sitecore MVP 2020

Sitecore Certified XM Cloud Developer

Sitecore

Passed Sitecore XM Cloud certification that certifies knowledge in building JAMStack applications using Sitecore new XM Cloud SaaS offering.

Hobbies & Interests

In my spare time I enjoy futsal ⚽, surfing 🌊 and travelling ✈️.

I love spending time with my daughter 👧 and exploring New Zealand on a roadtrip together 🚗.