Position: CTO \ VP of Engineering \ Head of Engineering
Category: Lead
Experience: 11 years | English: fluent

* Experience in executing logn-term company roadmap according to OKRs
* Experience in transformation from monolith to cloud-native serverless microservice architecture
* Experience in setting up operating model and SDLC processes in the company from scratch
* Experience in building and managing multiple geo-distributed teams
* Experience in running Agile transformation
* Successful experience in building own SaaS company and exiting
* Experience in presale
* Master's degree in Applied Mathematics, Master's degree in Management

Certificates: 
•	Cloud Digital Leader
•	The Professional Agile Leadership
•	Professional Scrum Master III
•	Professional Scrum Product Owner III
•	Professional Scrum with Kanban
•	Professional Scrum Developer
•	Scaled Professional Scrum
•	Lean Software Development
•	Infrastructure and Application Modernization with Google Cloud
25 years of overall IT experience. Last 15 years CTO and VP of Engineering positions

Key Achievements:

•	Successfully expanded the Engineering team from 30 to 100 members, reinforcing leadership role and enhancing overall team productivity.
•	Efficiently implemented a remote-first operating model for geo-distributed teams, leading to increased performance and productivity.
•	Played a critical role in employee development, defining career ladders and levels, and crafting learning paths for career progression.
•	Successfully transitioned from a monolithic system to a serverless microservices architecture, improving system scalability and reliability.
•	Conducted Agile transformation for the Engineering organization, enhancing team agility and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
•	Built L1&L2 support teams. Successfully implemented an effective on-call process, reducing incident response time and improving service reliability.
•	Led a company-wide cloud transformation, optimizing resource utilization and achieving significant cost savings.

Core Responsibilities:

•	Managed an org of 9 software engineering teams, some teams directly, some indirectly.
•	Spearheaded the growth and management of a high-performance engineering organization, focusing on agile methodologies and autonomous cross-functional teams.
•	Developed and executed the Engineering's long-term strategy (1-3 years), aligning it with company vision.
•	Utilized performance and development metrics data for monitoring team processes and quality.
•	Administered key HR functions, including performance evaluations, compensation adjustments, and hiring process and onboarding.
•	Oversaw the entire Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including testing, CI/CD, release and deployment.
•	Led a specialized Data Science team focusing on Machine Learning and Big Data.
•	Fostered cross-functional collaboration with Product and Operations leadership to drive company OKRs.
•	Coordinated engineering communities of practice and provided Agile training to the Engineering organization.
•	Managed the Directors of Engineering as a direct report to the CTO.

Technologies: Blockchain, Web3, Golang, Clojure, GCP, PostgreSQL, Spanner, MongoDB, React, K8S, GitHub actions, Microservice architecture, Serverless architecture, ML, Data Lake, Node.js, JS, PostgreSQL, Lua, Corona SDK
High-level technology leadership roles only. Ready to lead engineering org or engineering department. Available for part-time involvement to help to create new startups from scratch starting from being a single engineering person and growing the product, team, and company over time.
Originally from Ukraine. Currently located in UK