Position: Architect / Tech Lead / CTO / Fullstack
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

Using just a napkin drawing as a plan, I built an MVP in a weekend. This MVP allowed to attract investors, what led to actually founding a viable company. This happened a few times, so I know the secret sauce.

Created an in-house framework for dealing with multiple travel agencies and payment gateways. This helped business to make more deals with data providers as well as making partnerships with payment companies.

Led a team of senior developers in a human health startup. Was involved in all stages of design and development. ⁣
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Designed and implemented Elm layer on the frontend to reduce amount of runtime exceptions in JavaScript. The goal was achieved and the amount of such exceptions went down by 87%.⁣

Developed in-house testing framework with DSL. This allowed business analysts to write business requirements in a form of a functional test.
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Designed event-based system that could revert database state to some point, apply changes and roll everything back.⁣
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Led frontend development on-site from scratch for the core Novartis business systems for ~50k users in 190+ countries.⁣
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By extending my responsibilities to cover visual and UX design of the product, saved a client from hiring a separate designer.⁣
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Participated in business development meetings as an IT expert to analyze software offers and verify that they are truly needed.⁣
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Managed to standardize codebase by making frequent code reviews and pushing the priority of having a clean codebase, what led to fewer hours spent on bug fixes, faster new hire onboarding.⁣
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Was responsible for filling up the front-end development team in several projects. Interviewed overall 25 candidates.⁣
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Co-authored in-house JavaScript framework to develop fast and high-quality UI for set-top boxes.
I have 10+ years of software development experience in various fields: from entertainment to pharma, from corporations to startups. 

I developed myself as a Swiss army knife. Generalist with a strong sense of the product design and understanding what needs to be built.

Co-founded a Swiss-based fintech startup to make donations and banking easy for streamers, bloggers and anyone with creative thinking. I built the core of the product using React, Next.js, Node.js and Postgres on top of Google Cloud platform, with websockets and external integrations. After the company expansion, I led a small team of senior developers, while continuing hands-on development as well as working on the product design and customer analysis.

Grew from lead engineer to CTO in a Swiss-based travel startup. I joined a company during the expansion as a Fullstack (React Native + Node.js) developer and quickly became a driver for all things technology, including product decisions. My product obsession helped the company to evolve and grow.

Co-founded Cureous, Swiss-based clinical research startup, built scalable mobile and web clients using React, React Native and Elm. Developed some core parts on the backend using Go. Led a small team of senior engineers.

I enjoy building and working with teams, mentoring people, balancing their load and enabling each member's growth based on the company's needs.

I contribute to open source projects on GitHub, participated in 20 hackathons around the world, tutorials I made were watched over 1 million times.
Looking for young companies/products with budget, with zero to none bureaucracy and strong team motivation to build the best product.

I value trust and autonomy. No meaningless meetings for the sake of having a meeting. No fixed working hours. I work to provide the best result possible within a guaranteed time period, not to be in front of the screen for a fixed amount of time.

If you know why you do what you do, then we can be the best match you ever had.