Gavin Astur

– Lead a team of 4 engineers owning IKEA.com's main navigation for a microservice-based platform serving millions of daily users. – Architected and own the CI/CD pipeline (Migrated from Jenkins to Gitlab to GitHub Actions), Cloudflare edge compute setup, and AI integrations embedded in the internal React CMS. – Drive React-based frontend delivery using static fragments for performance and reliability at global scale. – Reduced production incidents progressively through small, deliberate incremental improvements - shipping to production daily with full team ownership end-to-end. – Championed AI-assisted tooling and workflows across the team, integrating Google Vertex AI for internal productivity. – Integrated Optimizely to embed A/B testing into the navigation experience, enabling data-driven decision making on UI changes across 51 markets at scale. – Operated confidently across context switches: PR reviews, production debugging, customer-facing Slack / Teams calls across time zones.

– Tech lead in a small agile team within IKEA's digital transformation, owning the responsive UI and RESTful service layer for the public-facing e-commerce platform. – Introduced microservices architecture delivering content to AWS and Akamai CDN alongside maintaining the legacy framework. – Wrote extensive Python tooling for CI/CD automation with Jenkins — scripting build pipelines, deployment orchestration, and environment management across the platform. – Evaluated Fastly as an edge compute platform, building Rust-based POCs for edge-side logic before the team ultimately moved to Cloudflare Workers — directly informing the architecture adopted in the subsequent lead role. – Hands-on across the full agile lifecycle — pair-programming and TDD-focused from discovery through to deployment.

– Led a small scrum team within Visa's innovation hub building proof-of-concepts and greenfield single-page applications. – Delivered responsive SPA using RequireJS, Ractive.js and Bootstrap; built rich data APIs using Spring Batch/Data; created dashboards with Dashing.io. – Full agile lifecycle involvement — BDD-focused, pair programming, discovery through delivery.

– Senior developer on the UI team delivering two responsive Web 2.0 digital wallet applications using HTML5, jQuery, and AngularJS. – Provided technical and architectural expertise across the full agile lifecycle; TDD-focused, pair programming. – Progressed to lead a team of 8 engineers in Romania, responsible for developing a key application sub-component.