Maksims Mihejevs

LoveWall is location based API.

Solution provides internal and public access to location based data around UK for around the world audience.

It has transparent content delivery for different language regions.

Locations can be searched all sorts of ways: relative, nearby, city, type, name, category and more.

User have ability to "love" the place or category, and this data is geo tagged, that way it can be used for target marketing and prioritizing different locations to visitors based on their country.

Approach for development is Unix-based. We develop small components that are responsible for specific tasks and communicate to each other using internal transports. Such components like: layer for CMS; public API gateway with token authentication; media files processing; statistical analysis; actual website with use of API; and more.

This application development approach allows application to scale horizontally over AWS. And use of CDN by media services.

For statistical analysis we use separate MongoDB instances and separate services in order to produce data that can be used to target locations based on visitors origin.

This is evolved project from current LoveWall website (http://lovewall.visitbritain.com/). And I were actively pushing idea of API to client, and we've managed to propose it based on ideas and possibilities that I've developed. I am involved in planning technical side of project, architecture, and development of back-end and CMS. While second developer is working on front-end public site for LoveWall itself that is based on API. We are small team of two developers.

Agent-UK is Bond themed campaign project with one month of competition with big prize.

Project had to work as Facebook PageTab and App, as well as Desktop website.

It uses lots of social APIs and allows player to sign up using Facebook.

It had more than 17,400 visitors in a first day, and then had peak of 19,000+ in one day. In total it collected more than 108,000 unique visitors during a bit more than a month period.

Challenges were with high traffic of the campaign and not optimized LoveWall API that was driven by slow Drupal. Those difficulties had to be solved as quickly as possible with most efficient way to handle high traffic and frequency of requests as it is mostly single page application with lots of AJAX for game logic.

A lot of statistical data were collected as well tracked different ways of advertising in order to determine the best and worst ways of advertisement.

AtoZ - Azerbaijan is tourism website to present Azerbaijan's culture, nature and places of interests.

It has unique slick design with UX, and its focus on delivering rich inspiration about undiscovered places of Azerbaijan.

Estates Agency website.

Used Umbraco CMS with fully bespoke front-end. All JavaScript elements were built from scratch with help of jQuery.