Vlad was leading our team and mentored me and other team members throughout the project. I would like to highlight Vlad's vision, because he is not only able to spot the perspective features in his main areas of expertise, but also able to find something valuable for other members during research. Vlad is a strong researcher, striving for best-practice and safest and most efficient solutions in long-term scale.
Vlad's another strong side is his team management skills: efficiently allocating team resources, keeping all team members informed and following team guidelines and deadlines.
Vlad shown great expertise at setting up the CI/CD, both hosted on cloud and on private servers, helping the team to build automatized infrastructure. The same is applicable also to maintaining the databases both on cloud and on private servers.
Besides this, I would also like to highlight Vlad's debugging skills for frontend, backend, DevOps, and many other areas. He has a great vision for critical points of the logs and recovering the system really fast.
His another strong point is striving to optimize current solution, which led us to faster working web application with minimized server response time.
The final point is him being a great mentor. He thoroughly researches the area, has well-developed communication skills, and he is able to explain complex things in a simple way. Vlad's high expertise and communication gave me and other team members many valuable insights, and we never felt pressure not knowing how to implement something new, because he was always there to help.
In conclusion, Vlad as a colleague is a reliable team member, strong researcher, and a patient mentor.