lang-uk/recruitment-dataset-candidate-profiles-english huggingface dataset:
Position: CTO / VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


- 15+ years in IT industry
- 10+ years experience in Software Development
- 5+ years experience Technology Lead in IT Software Design and Architecture
- 3+ years experience CTO


Direct responsibilities included developing technical architecture and maintaining product delivery, system analysis, technical recruitment, meetings with C-level management, identifying business needs, motivating and performance managing the teams.

Experience in business industries:
- iGaming
- Online Payments 
- E-commerce
- TV broadcast
- Travel

Tech domains:
- Langauges: Erlang, Python, NodeJS, Javascript, PHP, Perl, Bash
- SQL databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL
- NoSQL databases: Redis, Memcached, Riak, Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB
- Cloud: Google Cloud, Amazon Web services
- CI/CD: Gitlab, Ansible, Jenkins, Rundeck, Open Build Service
- PaaS: Kubernetes

Leaderships:
- Leading and managing full cycle of product development: teams of Software Developers, Devops, QA, SA/BA (business unit of 20 person)
- Acting as Engineering manager
- Leading teams as a Team/Tech Lead

Summary:
- Personal experience as developer with Erlang, Python, PHP, Perl, Javascript
- Experience in managing teams with NodeJS, Javascript, Erlang, Python
- Experience in managing QA, Devops, SA/BA teams
- Building and providing development process: Scrum, Kanban
- Experience with Cloud technologies (AWS, Google cloud)
- Experience with building Microservices architecture
- Experience in solution architecture design, guide software development, testing, deployment and project management
Looking for position as CTO / VP of Engineering
Position: CTO / VP of Engineering
Category: Java
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

Worked on multiple migrations from monolith to cloud-hosted microservices / SOA architectures.

Decreased platform ongoing maintenance expenses by factor of 3 (by reducing the cost of operations and introducing automations).

I have performed training of multiple teams on optimal development standards, code quality, TDD in order to reduce the amount of bugs, increasing the quality and modularity of the application for a better time-to-money conversion rate.

I introduced and applied the full automation cycle to the operations and development cycle when automation was not mainstream.

During my last 3 years, I worked on reducing costs by 40% ($1.4 mln) for one of the most famous gaming companies by introducing the cloud and optimizing the code architecture and automation.
Overall career started 13 years ago with JavaScript and Java on the backend, since then I was developing SPA. I've worked for consulting companies that have given me the opportunity to work on many different projects and technologies. Throughout my career I have covered a huge amount of technology stacks, from IoT to highly secure and high performing EE environments.
architectural design, development for high-load systems, challenging environment
Position: CTO / VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

* Built an international outsourcing company from scratch.
* As a contractor, managed successful development, production launch, and operation of 3 postomats (automated last-mile delivery machines) networks.
* Co-found country-wide programming community which includes more than 10 thousands active participants at the moment
* Built a programming school and graduated more than 1500 students in 5 years.
* Graduated from the "Leading People and Teams" specialization of the University of Michigan.
Top manager and Software Engineering Leader with more than 20 years of IT experience in various environments - from rapid-growing startups to established enterprise-level businesses. Additionally, have experience with building multiple self-established businesses in different market areas. An inspirational leader with high-leveled communication, management, and presentation skills. Mentor, speaker, and Communities Builder

My technology stack: Python, Erlang/Elixir, Clojure, Kotlin, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, MySQL, CouchDB, MongoDB, Riak, RabbitMQ, 0mq, Redis, Elastic, Docker, k8s, etc.
One of the most powerful motivational factors is to make meaningful things. For me, meaningful is something that brings the future closer. I can say that one of my addictions is the automation of processes and robotization. I believe, that people should not do any kind of thoughtless work.

FinTech is not something I'm really interested in.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

New client attraction, revenue generated $5mln+ within last 15m.
Leading a department of 100+ engineers. Hired and grew the team from 21 engineers to 100. Done training and mentorship. Developed academies for new tech stacks.
15+ years in the software industry. Worked as a developer, tech lead, architect, head of department (120+ engineers). At the moment I am growing digital services portfolios, landing new clients (total cumulative revenue generated in past 12m is $5mln+). I also do account/program recovery for critical clients.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent


- 20 years as a Software Engineer, including 5 years as a Team Lead/CTO.
- Experience with startups, building flat self-organizing teams based on trust, respect and pragmatism.
- Experience in recruitment, individual career development, motivation and retention.
- Deep knowledge of Agile and Scrum/XP, including pair programming, TDD and refactoring.
- Fluent English
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent


An experienced CTO and Software Architect.
Proficient with Microsoft stack in development, architecture and devops.
Have strong experience in product delivery during active company growth.
Have proven record of delivered projects, among them - green field products, refactoring and innovation of legacy products, performance optimization and scaling for new markets, cloud migrations, launching a cloud product in China.
Was awarded Azure MVP for 5 years.
Known in Ukrainian software community.

Located in EU.
I am looking for a leading technical management role in a growing company with Agile mindset.
Not interested in politics over product or authoritarian environments.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

#8 ICO in world 2018
R&D Center Acquired by Amazon
#1 Influencers Marketing in US, 2015
#1 Virtual Assistant iPad app for 52 Countries, 2014
#1 in Ukraine, Analytics for 115k Sites, 2013
Gene-Disease Search. #2 in Boston Disease Challenge, 2013
#1 Site in Danish national daily newspaper based, 2012
Face Recognition StartUp Acquired by Google for $35M, 2012
- Extraordinary Thinking in Applied ML Solutions
- Building Deep/Machine Learning Teams
- Headhunting Brilliant Candidates
- Build R&D offices
- Technical Leadership
- Result Oriented
19 years of experience
VC, crypto, ML/CV, startup
OR
miltech, edtex, medtech, govtech
longterm contract
Position: CTO/VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


17+ years in IT, 13+ years in Fintech, 2+ year in Gambling

Strong information technology professional skilled in Management, Scrum, Software Development, Architecture Solutions, Computer Science, Fintech and Gambling.

Managing skills:
• Managing a team of 25+ people
• Interviewed 100+ people and hired 50+ people
• Delivering on time with clear timeline
• Scrum workflow

General Tech Experience:
• Organization of full development life cycle from scratch(hiring, budgeting, development, testing, deployment, versioning, release, maintenance)
• Programming languages(C++, C, Python, Bash, JS)
• Databases(PostgreSQL, Sybase, Oracle, MySql, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, Memcached)
• CI/CD(Docker, TeamCity, Jenkins, Bitbucket pipelines, Octopus, DigitalOcean)
• Monitoring(Zabbix)
• Version control systems(Git, Mercurial, SVN)
• Bug-tracking systems(JIRA, Salesforce, Redmine)
• Project management processes(Scrum, Kanban)

Fintech Experience:
• Development of real-time P&L tracking and institutional-grade portfolio management servers(C++, STL, Boost, Sybase, Poco, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Reuters, Bloomberg, Jenkins, FIX, Google Test Framework, CMake)
• Development of ultra low latency(HFT) servers(C, C++, STL, Boost, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite, FIX, Google Test Framework, CMake, Conan, CTest)
• Development of gateways and balancers(C++, C, STL, Boost, Oracle, SQLite, FIX, Google Test Framework, CMake, Conan, CTest)

Gambling Experience:
• Development of gambling servers from scratch(C++, Boost, Protobuf, WebSockets, REST, MySQL, MongoDB, Docker, Google Test Framework, Conan)
• Development of gambling services and architectures from scratch
• Development of high-load distributed gambling servers and services(C++, STL, Redis, REST, WebSockets, MySQL, FSM, Google Test Framework)
• Development of client-server architectures(C++, JS, WebSockets, REST, gRPC, Conan)
• Development of complex GUI solutions(QT, QML, JS)

Soft skills:
• Creative/innovative
• Follow-through on commitments
• Exhibit passion and excitement over work
• Able to develop people
• Calm under pressure
• Able to convince
• Speak and write clearly
• Cope effectively with complexity
Position: CTO/VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

Hired, onboarded and supervised new team for a project after acquisition.
Defined hiring process of developers in big product company
Completed large-scale releases in big projects: shopping cart, complete merchant CRM rewrite, order processing, etc
Designed and launched with a team solution to accumulate user base on 5+ projects within a company
Optimised projects that suffered under load
Hired tens of developers, built a number of teams from scratch, mentored team leaders (some of them became CTOs on their projects)
Organised developer events inside company
I'm an engineering manager with 10+ years of experience in IT, mostly in e-commerce, but also in SaaS products. Last 4 years as senior engineering manager.

Work experience:
- 2021-2022 - VP of Engineering at Ukrainian marketplace
- 2019-2021 - CTO on couple of marketplace projects simultaneously: c2c clothes, freelance jobs, handmade
- 2013-2019 - Team leader and Senior Software Developer
- 2007-2012 - Software developer

My strength is understanding business needs and connecting it with technology to produce a great result.

I have a lot of experience with software architecture, hiring, building teams and processes.

Python, NodeJS, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD

Love cooperating with others to create great products.
I'd like to join a team that already has product and is looking for a way to scale product itself or team working on it.

Also I'd like to work with a passionate team, that loves and believes in what they're working on.

I'm not afraid of legacy projects.
Position: CTO/VP of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

Achieved a significant reduction of 400% in operational costs for a finance broker within a year.

Maintained a consistent track record of timely delivery, while ensuring the highest quality of output.

Possess a robust understanding of fintech and blockchain domains, with extensive knowledge in these areas.

Managed teams of up to 60 individuals, providing effective guidance and supervision.

Self-driven and autonomous, with the ability to work independently and deliver results.

Proficient in building projects from scratch, delivering successful outcomes by starting from the ground up.
With a decade-long expertise in web development, I possess more than half a decade of experience in the realm of managerial roles. As a passionate advocate of commercial interests within the IT sector, I possess comprehensive knowledge pertaining to prioritize and adept IT team management skills. I am not averse to rolling up my sleeves and getting my hands dirty, with my proficiency lying in PHP8 with Spiral/RoadRunner as the primary working stack. My love for Domain-Driven Design (DDD) knows no bounds, and I can whip it up with ease. My capabilities as a blockchain engineer are exemplary, evident from my adeptness in Bitshares, Tendermint state machine with Cosmos SDK, Geth/ERC20, BSC, and an internal NFT marketplace based on ERC-721. I have even launched my airdrop implementation for ERC20 token.

My experience in financial tools and enterprise-related products is broad and extensive. With over 15 years of remote work experience under my belt, even before it became fashionable, I possess the skills to organize remote work of IT departments from scratch. I specialize in DeFi, NFT, L1/L2 EVM-compatible networks, with fintech and crypto being my primary domains of operation.

A highly motivated, results-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) enthusiast with extensive experience in leveraging cutting-edge AI technologies such as the OpenAI API (including, but not limited to, ChatGPT), Machine Learning (ML), OpenCV, and Tesseract. Passionate about developing innovative AI solutions to address complex problems and improve efficiency across various industries.
I yearn for a challenge, and monetary gains are not my topmost priority at the moment. A non-toxic working environment is a prerequisite for me, and I deem it crucial that the business is actively involved in the processes. It is mandatory that the business possesses a clear understanding of its goals and has a well-defined strategy in place for further progress.

My priorities include finances, blockchain, and a well-supported startup.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering, Cloud Solution Architect
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

•	Elicit architecture, business driven requirements
•	Created and evolve architecture for applications with high performance and data quality over systems
•	Successfully delivered highly performing solution with good quality in tight deadlines
•	Analyzed and proposed solution to improve customer’s infrastructure and architecture approach for services communication. Goal is to increase performance, real time data propagation and reduce manual operations
•	Setup and document CI/CD, monitoring and deployment processes.
•	Setup, lead and managed remote team with motivating and organizing on core goals and values
•	Set up AWS account, user permissions, billing system and monitoring expenses
•	Set up domains, email system, encryption keys
•	Created design and cost/scale-optimized services architecture in AWS: microservices and serverless
•	Developed the core interfaces and components integrations
•	Performed product management activities to prevent scope creep and accomplish the right things
•	Collaborated closely with the key technology and business stakeholders
•	Developed system specifications and interfaces for complex components, developed them, and got it delivered as per plan
•	Provided the development team with design specifications 
•	Implemented critical functionality, improved the overall system performance and made cost optimisations
Currently, I'm responsible for global clients’ success providing them with advanced architecture solutions. My main responsibilities include elicit architecture driven requirements, investigation, architecture analysis, design technology solutions, oversee that development teams integrates properly and develop appropriate things intime.

The key areas I feel strong in are critical problem solving, technology solutions design, cost/performance optimization, tech evangelism, and technology product management with the focus on SaaS-oriented implementations.
Passion about building new products, solutions, organising teams to resolve real business challenges.

I wouldn't like to participate in boring outdated project with long madness history.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering, EM, Technical architect
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

Migration from the monolith to microservices architecture.
Leading teams with up to 20 team members.
Building motivated teams from scratch.
Work with an international team.
Build the competence matrix and mentorship process.
Experience:
  * Over 10 years of commercial development on Java
  * 8 years experience in eCommerce domain(B2C, B2B)
  * Technical architecture and design
  * Team leading for local and international teams
  * Engineering management
  * Pre-sales
  * Hiring

Current activity:
  * Microservices architectures
  * Teams management
  * Building the line management process

Recent Positions and Roles:
  * Technical Architect
  * Engineering Manager
  * Team/Tech Leader

Focused on complex problem solving with optimal performance, technology stack to fit the budget and deadline. Keen on people management and building SDLC.
Looking for challenging work with distributed systems, high load. To design the technical solution for complex platforms as well as set up the software development life-cycle and working process.
I'd like to avoid outdated legacy projects.
Passion for CTO, VP of Engineering, SEM or Technical architect position.
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering, Engineering Director
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

One of the products that I faced some time ago had poor quality. 

- Amount of open bugs was growing on 100 bugs per month
- The team spend 80 percents of its resources on bugfix and maintenance
- Two or Three severity one issues found on production per week

We turned it into something special
- Cloud-based
- Passed numerous security audits
- Fortune-100 companies trust to store the personal data of their employees
CI/CD
- Zero severity one issues found on production during one year
- Maintenance spend decreased in four times
Career path

Developer->Team Lead->Project Manager->CTO

Achievement highlights

- Migration to cloud-hosted microservices
- Decreased platform ongoing maintenance expenses three times
 Passed numerous penetration tests and security audits (PCI DSS Level 1)
- From zero to 90% of QA automation, continuous delivery
- Data pipelines for numerous analytical and accounting reports
- Approached China market
- Rapid growth
- Low turnover rate
- Building efficient teams
I love to see

- ambitions
- growth
- numbers-driven decision making

I am ok with

- chaos
- in-mature processes
- rapid changes

I am not ok with

- lack of connection to reality
Position: CTO, VP of Engineering, Engineering Director, Head of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

Company #3
1. I've scale-up the team from 15 members to 120. Despite the growth, we didn't lose efficiency and improved it by 35% per team every six months.
2. Organised migration from custom infrastructure to the Kubernetes without loss of SLA.
3. Launched new directions IT security and RnD (ML & AI).
4. Technically prepared and launch the product in 8 new countries.
5. Optimised ops metrics approx on 20% (costs, logistics, etc.). 
6. Launched web version of the product.
7. Launched two sub-products. Organised team and built
strategy.
8. On average, we improved product metrics by 35% only for one
year.
9. Organised and launched a new product planning process. 
10. Moving team to LeSS Huge.

Company #2
1. Scaled up the tech team from 15 members to 40.
2. Launch Scrum as a main approach for product development.
3. Educated dev and product team.
4. Organised and migrated to cross functional dev teams.
5. Helped companies to launch more than in 4 countries.

Company #1
1. I scaled up the tech team from 5 members to 30.
2. Launched mobile development direction in the company. 
3. Organised migration from Java to Kotlin in Android direction.
4. Designed and developed own scaffolds for each direction (FE,
BE, mobile). It helped to save cost on project development by
40% through optimization of the initiation step.
5. Helped companies to launch Europe and African directions.

Also, I had launched two small products (applications) as an architect and owner. They were available for customers in the retail networks.
I design technical solutions for businesses across multiple domains for the last eight years.
It includes the development of complex e-commerce platforms, SaaS & BaaS solutions, ERPs, marketplaces, etc.

From the management side, I have expertise in:
- People management;
- Risk management;
- Strategic Management;
- Change Management;
- Innovation Management;

My mission is to combine the inspired team, technologies and efficient processes for getting something unique.
First of all, for me important what experience and expertise I can get from a partnership with the company. I look at it as an investment in myself. It's about the new challenges from the tech and business side in which I'll participate.

And of course, I'm still want to help the product get an evaluation in 10 billion ;)

The third part essential for me is the team, people with whom I'll work and the conditions in which we'll work. I believe in results only with an inspired and goal-oriented team. If we talk about creating something more significant, it depends not only on work CEO, CTO or whatever else. It's about all teams. If we hire talents, we must organise conditions that will open all their potential. 
Only in this way we will create great stuff.
Position: CTO/ VP of Engineering/ Engineering Director /Head of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper


My mission is to combine the inspired team, technologies and efficient processes for getting something unique.
Position: CTO / VP of Engineering / Engineering manager
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

Achievements in the last company:
* went from 99.5 to 99.99 uptime in less than 3 years
* reduce time to market for new features from 6 months to less than a day
* scale the team of 30 to 100 engineers
* built and successfully executed a strategy for monolith application redesign and cloud migration
* introduced and design fully automated CI/CD pipelines according to QA, InfoSec, DevOps practices
almost 20 years at Software Engineering, over 10 years in Management positions up to CTO, still hands-on with modern technologies.

We may fit each other if you need to:
* improve application design you run in terms of scalability, resilience, stability
* split your monolith into microservices and/or migrate it to a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP)
* reorganize your team to get predictable and timely releases 
* you tired of bugs and regressions after each release and want to improve application quality in general
* build new or significantly scale existing team 

Responsibilities:
* build and execute a technology strategy and roadmap
* being accountable for engineering headcount and budget
* discuss with the business ways of improving the product for end-users
* develop and establish robust operational processes and procedures
No gambling, no betting, no spam, no crypto please :)