Arturs Vancans

Technical Founder @ Second Space

About

Arturs specializes in Business Strategy development and Product Management in Technology Based companies. Particular fields of expertise include Agile driven product delivery, antifragile distributed software and home automation. Interests in business development in APAC and EMEA regions. Recent talks given: University of Oxford - "AngularJS Best Practices", October 2015

Country

United Kingdom

City

Greater London

Industry

Computer Hardware

Skill

Entrepreneurship, Java, Python, Agile Methodologies, Scala, AngularJS, JavaScript, Android, MySQL, Event Driven Programming, TypeScript, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kotlin

Experience

Technical Founder

Second Space

2025-1 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Second Space — members club designed for active creators in the tech and design industry

Co-Founder

MAZE

2016-5 - Present · 10 yrs 5 mos

London, United Kingdom

Scala Developer

OVO

2015-12 - 2017-4 · 1 yr 5 mos

London, United Kingdom

Scala, AWS, Docker, Akka, Spark, Java, Angular, TypeScript, Kafka Full stack developer in a cross-functional Agile driven Pay Monthly product team. Building a fully asynchronous, event-driven and reactive service oriented architecture with Scala based back-end and AngularJS TypeScript front-end.

Technology Analyst; Full Stack

Bank of America Merrill Lynch

2014-7 - 2015-12 · 1 yr 6 mos

London, Canary Wharf

Python | Scala | AngularJS | jQuery | Ansible | Websockets | REST | BDD | TDD | Bootstrap | NoSQL Designing and building scalable, reliable and event driven software using Scala, Python and AngularJS. Communication link is powered by fault tolerant Jetty websockets and Scalatra RESTful architecture processing over 2 million sensitive transaction breaks every several minutes. Data changes are tracked via dependency graphs (DAG) to be propagated to reactive UI. Deployment management with Ansible, Ansible Tower and Jenkins for single click promotions. Development requirements are captured with help of SBE which are later converted into acceptance tests (ATDD) providing descriptive behavior assurance in the business language (BDD). Software is developed in non-monolithic form backed by Jenkins Continuous Integration tool and real-time Unit test and Integration test feedback on Status Dashboards.

Architect; Android Developer; IoT

CSR

2012-10 - 2014-2 · 1 yr 5 mos

Belfast

Architecture planning and development of distributed network entertainment system (VibeHub) controller on Android (Java, NDK, Event-Loop, UDP, UPnP) which was presented at CES 2013 in Las Vegas. Tight collaboration with clients and stakeholders. Integration with the business unit and analysis of the market.