Andris Stikans

Ruby on Rails Developer | API | Agile | Leadership & Mentorship

Sigulda, Latvia | +371 28666366 | andris.stikans@gmail.com |

With years of experience in Ruby on Rails, cloud architectures, and AI-driven automation, I help businesses streamline workflows, enhance security, and build scalable systems that deliver real results.

What I Focus On

I'm fortunate to have worked on high-impact projects, optimizing both internal systems and external customer-facing solutions.

My Passions

  • Integrating systems to make data accessible across platforms, reducing silos and boosting operational efficiency.
  • Optimizing performance by reducing database loads, improving API caching, and streamlining workflows, all while ensuring security is never compromised.
  • Mentoring mid-level developers and fostering a culture of code quality and best practices to build high-performing teams.

Memorable Projects

  • Optimizing cloud-based systems at Workday, improving API caching to boost performance by 50% and reducing database load by 30%. The result? Seamless integration for systems serving thousands of users worldwide.
  • Led the integration of AI-driven automation for a fitness & nutrition platform, reducing processing times by 90% significantly improving user experience and internal efficiency.
  • As an entrepreneur, I've built Kukurukuku.lv, a venue booking platform, and Treneris.sfitness.lv, a fitness coaching platform. Both projects automated processes and improved customer retention by streamlining scheduling and subscription management.
  • Mentoring 10+ mid-level developers, helping them upskill and become senior engineers, ensuring that teams adopt best code quality, security, and maintainability practices.
Project 0

Workday strategic sourcing

Procuremnet platform used by customers all around the world including S&P500 companies

  • Lead the design and feature development of secure, scalable web applications on the Ruby on Rails platform
  • Collaborated in an Agile team to enhance platform collaboration and integration with other systems using REST API and GraphQL.
  • Implemented authorization solutions (such as SSO) and metrics to enhance resiliency and auditing.
  • Mentored mid level developers and contributed to team leadership initiatives, fostering a culture of code quality and best practices.
  • AI integration to optimize Contract lifecycle processes.
Ruby on Rails Rspec PostgreSQL AWS GraphQL REST API SSO ElasticSearch OpenSearch AI Continuous Integration Docker
Project 1

Sfitness

Online fitness and nutrition projects

  • Implemented admin panel to manage fitness programs, participants, payments, email sending functionality.
  • Oversaw security, rate limits, system maintenance, reliability and performance improvements.
  • Configured and deployed on Digital Ocean droplet (VPS) and integrated with the landing page.
  • Created integration with AI to get grocery products from week plans and generate images for each product.
Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Digital Ocean PDF generation Payments JavaScript AI
Project 2

Showelrace

Shovel race enthusiasts multilanguage homepage

  • Implemented admin panel to manage events, participants, payments, subscriptions, documents, email sending functionality
  • Responsible for security, maintenance, reliability and performance improvements
  • Configured and deployed on cloud Digital Ocean droplet (VPS)
Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Digital Ocean Payments Excel import Excel export

Why I Do What I Do

I believe in the power of teamwork. While individual effort is essential, strong teams lead to the best results. I love hearing client feedback and sharing successes with my teams because that's where the magic happens.