Position: Director of Engineering, Senior Software Engineering Manager
Category: Golang
Experience: 11 years | English: upper

• teams and technical leader with 16+ years of experience in Software Engineering, including 7+ years in leading and managing cross-functional teams;
• led up to 40 members for various projects, products, teams and companies at same time (on-site and remotely);
• hired and mentored many engineers, managers and interns, and helped them grow from juniors to middles, seniors, leaders, managers, as well as gain new skills or got their first job after graduation;
• have extensive experience in remote work as a manager, leader and engineer (in total 10+ years);
• conducted many successful negotiations with company partners, which allowed to reduce prices and some penalties up to 50%, and agree on mutually beneficial work;
• conducted an audit of a working company that helped reduce technical costs by 2 times;
• researched the technical problems of the project and developed together with the team a number of solutions that subsequently helped to slow stagnation and reduce the company's loss by about 30%;
• created KPI for all members of the department that led to an increase in products metrics by an average of 20%;
• attracted the first 10,000 users to the project (for Telegram bot and channel);
• in total I have 126 positive reviews on freelance websites as a freelancer (contractor) and 30 positive reviews as an employer. For many years I have been number 1 rated on these websites;
• proved the non-conscientious fulfillment partner obligations (traffic growth) based on statistics and technical solutions;
• developed documentation for a 5-years old product from scratch;
• developed projects, teams and engineering department from scratch;
• have extensive experience and understanding of SDLC from pre-sale and team hiring to post-production and maintenance;
• have experience as a crisis manager;
• participated in various team and individual regional programming contests on behalf of the school and university (ACM ICPC and others);
• MS in Computer Science.
Last 2 of 9 records, short:

‣ Senior Software Engineering Manager (remote)

Top 5 fastest-growing digital health company 2020-2021 in the US according to General Catalyst. In total $270M in investment within the past 12 months, $1.15B valuation and 900+ employees worldwide as of October 2021.
• as the only one technical manager in the company at that time, in 4 months I led all engineers (28 members, everyone was new to the company) from the “forming” phase to the end of the “norming” phase of team development;
• together with the product and recruiting team, I built a multi-staging recruitment process (5+ interviews) for different engineering roles from scratch, which also included job market analyzes for different countries, proposals for aligning the compensation package, preparation of technical and non-technical tasks, training interviewers, etc;
• have successfully released the first versions of two products;
• carried out the integration of all products with 3rd party services (different Google API’s and HelloSign API), including financial calculation and initial description for product and financial teams, setting up accounts and credentials, technical documentation development for all teams;
• promoted one engineer to an Architect role and another engineer to a DevOps Lead role. Expanded the duties of another engineer to the role of a Scrum master;
• together with the Architect and DevOps Lead I prepared the first version of the technical documentation for all our products from scratch and specific documentation for investors. Also I prepeared non-technical documentation for some of our processes and I have set up a process for working with an outsourcing DevOps team (2 engineers, outsorcing company from Argentina).
Dec 2020 – Oct 2021.
Team: 30 members.
Stack: Rust, Kotlin, PostgreSQL, GraphQL, Hasura, React, AWS, Docker, JIRA, Confluence.

‣ CEO, CTO

Startup in the media industry; more details under NDA.
Jun 2019 – Dec 2020 (1 yr 7 mos).
Looking for management role which included deep technical part and where need for example: facilitate engineers working, build teams or departments from scratch, research and solve some hard technical or R&D issues, deliver products, audit solutions/projects/processes and so on.

Prefer to professional environment, hard challenges and cutting-edge technologies.