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Artem Babakov

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Hi! I love designing, building, and managing infrastructure and software. Shoot me a message, and we'll make things happen!

In September 2024, I partnered with a friend to launch a web development agency. We called it Synpine, reflecting synergy of what both of us can bring to the table: client outreach and marketing - on Alex; designing, building, and shipping the complete solution - on me. We've worked with a number of clients including a private jet charter company and a manufactured homes dealer, and have done projects ranging from SEO optimizations and maintaining existing platforms to providing complete online retail solutions built "from scratch" using HTML/JS/PHP/CSS under LNMP stack.
2024-current

I started this company in April 2024, a year before graduating University of North Florida in May 2025 with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science degree. In the first year - "3DDone" project was born; in the second year - "CarPlaza". Both of these projects are standalone businesses built from scratch, they tought me legal, business, and technical perspectives. More about them can be found in the Notable Projects section.
2024-current

When I was 12 years old, I launched a minecraft server with the goal of building a community. Very early on, I learned about port forwarding, static IP addresses, and how clients actually connect to the server. For the next few months, I was self-teaching HTML and CSS, and I remember having a hard time figuring out responsive design in DreamWeaver. A few months after my 13th birthday, I have already launched my very own website using a CMS framework powered by PHP, similar to what WordPress is. I knew then and there - I love problem-solving and providing complete solutions that are useful in the real world. That minecraft server, albeit years later, peaked with 6000+ accounts created, 160,000+ likes and ~1,000,000 views on social media, which completely satisfied the original goal of its creation.

Since then, I've done a number of project of varying complexity and scale. They gave me over a decade of experience, and taught me to understand requirements, build tools, solve problems, and deliver solutions. More about these projects can be found in the Notable Projects section.
2012-2024

Relationship with this client started with optimizing their existent wordpress-based website: SEO Score, page speed, responsive design issues. Work was authorized on Sept 25th and by Oct 10th, the following issues were identified and fixed: orphan URLs present only in the sitemap, defense against click-jacking attacks not implemented, defense against mime type sniffing not implemented, Open Graph URL not matching canonical, anchored images with no alt text, no conversion tracking, webserver disclosing its version, internal links to 4xx pages, broken headings hierarchy, html title duplicates, crucial meta-tags missing such as keywords, unfinished responsive design, missing "target" and "rel" parameters in external links, errors in "Show similar models" logic (showed non-related listings). After successful delivery of that work, we expanded onto managing advertisement campaigns, and eventually - a new website from scratch using HTML/CSS/JS/PHP, it dynamically populates modular page elements (i.e. header, footer, contact form, etc.) using PHP and has digital catalogs with home models, commercial units, saunas, as well as Q&A page, and a main landing page with a contact form connected to a custom google script that populates internal spreadsheets and is integrated into a third party CRM and covered with google captcha tokens for security.

3D Printing Quotes, Transaction Processing, and Shipping engine.
Automated system processes 3d models, allows for size&color customization, calculates required material and time to print, and displays checkout page with final price alongside shipping estimations with options to choose from.
The system is complete with registration&authorization, order history, automated payments processing, and Admin dashboard.

Launched a WordPress-based eCommerce website with sales (shipping and tax included), providing a streamlined solution for a handmade crochet business.

University of North Florida