davit vardanov

Curriculum vitae

Davit Vardanov

Senior Full-Stack Developer · Security Architect

Summary

Full-stack developer with six years of production experience across fintech, iGaming, payments, and security. Currently Lead Security Architect at the Tech Management Center of Yerevan City, and founder of oky.ai, an AI-driven email-security platform built in Go, Vue, and Nuxt. Previously led a seven-person cross-functional team at Stratech Corp, architecting a twenty-microservice wallet platform and shipping across web, mobile, and internal tooling. Comfortable across the stack — and equally at home writing code, reviewing it, securing it, and setting technical direction.

Experience

Lead Security Architect ·Tech Management Center of Yerevan City

May 2026 — Present

Municipal engineering organization

  • Drive security automation across the city's engineering organization, baking security checks into the development lifecycle.
  • Develop and manage internal security tools end-to-end, from design through operation.
  • Lead code quality and security control: review standards, secure design review, and engineering security standards.

Senior Development Team Lead ·Stratech Corp

Aug 2024 — May 2026

Remote · multiple product brands

  • Managed a cross-functional team of seven across multiple product brands — team management, architecture, sprint planning, and code review while staying hands-on.
  • Zentro Wallet — Architected a twenty-microservice fiat & crypto wallet platform (PHP/Laravel, NestJS, Nuxt web, Flutter mobile): top-up, withdrawal, P2P transfers, scan-to-pay, and a merchant marketplace with admin panels.
  • Juegalo.com — Built Predictor, a sports-prediction game (TypeScript, Node/Express, PostgreSQL, Prisma) that ran at 500–1,500 daily active players, plus the partner-program site.
  • Zippy-pay — Built the Vue.js business site and an expo lottery game; supported ongoing marketing needs.
  • Internal tooling — Built a QA operations platform and an infrastructure & secrets vault for scoped staff access to tokens, repos, environments, and cost data.

Web Developer ·AGD Logistics

2020 — 2023

Remote · freight & logistics

  • Built the company’s Transport Management System from scratch: automated carrier background checks, a freight/load-plan builder, and end-to-end document flow.
  • Delivered the MVP website and branding, then a Node.js/MongoDB app for smart-carrier onboarding.
  • Grew from logistics assistant into the company’s first in-house developer and built the engineering team around the TMS.

Startups

oky.ai ·Founder & Solo Developer

2026 · Beta
  • AI-driven email & multi-channel security platform that intercepts phishing, credential theft, and impersonation before they reach the inbox.
  • Built the foundation solo: Go backend, Vue customer panels, Nuxt marketing site; layered AI analysis, URL scanning, and sandbox detonation across a browser extension, Gmail add-on, and Telegram bot.

Amplix.app ·Founder & Solo Developer

Feb 2026 · MVP
  • AI-powered social media automation, designed and shipped end-to-end alone: NestJS monorepo backend, Vue.js customer panels, Nuxt marketing site.

Skills

Backend & Data
Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Node.js, NestJS, Express, PHP/Laravel, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Prisma
Frontend & Mobile
Vue.js, Nuxt, Svelte, Ionic (iOS/Android), Flutter, HTML, CSS
Architecture
Microservices, Monorepo, REST APIs, System design, Third-party integrations
Security
Threat modeling, Secure design review, OWASP practices, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, Sandboxing, Access control
DevOps
CI/CD, Deployment automation, Infrastructure, Secrets management, Grafana, Jest
Leadership
Team management, Hiring input, Code review, Technical planning, Cross-functional coordination
Languages
English (Fluent), Russian (Fluent), Armenian (Native)

Selected work

Detailed case studies for my own projects — including OKY, Neon Nights RGS and MiniShop — are on the work page. Employer and client projects are described above without code or client identifiers, and I am glad to discuss the engineering directly.