/ about · the longer version
eight years
of the web.
mamikon arakelyan is a senior software engineer in yerevan, armenia. full stack in the honest sense: at ease in the database, at home on the server, and still caring about the last pixel in the browser.
the career started in 2008 at a shop called fatal error, which turned out to be a fine name for an education. since then: agencies, hosting companies, a hospitality platform, and now ucraft, where the product is a website builder used by people who have never written a line of code.
the through-line is the web itself. domains, servers, deploys, databases, interfaces. everything between a typed url and a rendered page.
/ experience
six shops, one craft.
ucraft
jul 2024 - presentsenior software engineer
senior engineer on a website-builder product. full stack, end to end.
ginosi hospitality management
mar 2018 - feb 2020php developer
backend php for a hospitality management platform.
globalr.com
jan 2016 - mar 2018full stack web developer, technical director
full-stack developer, later technical director. domains, hosting, the whole stack.
regnest
dec 2015 - mar 2018web developer
web development for a domain and hosting platform.
globalar llc
jan 2014 - jan 2016web developer
sites, systems, whatever the week needed.
fatal error
jul 2008 - dec 2010web developer
first chair. learning the craft by shipping it.
/ the toolbox
php go sql git javascript the full stack, end to end
tools rotate. judgment compounds.
/ how i work
ship the boring solution. read the code that is already there. write for the person who inherits your work.
most of engineering is deciding what not to build. the rest is building it so quietly that nobody notices it working. senior is not a bigger toolbox. it is a shorter list of things you still get wrong, and the patience to fix them properly.