Position: Engineering Lead (Startups)
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11


- leaded engineering of 2 successful startups;
- 8+ years in engineering leadership;
- 5+ years in engineering high-load data-intensive distributed systems;
- have been programming in over 10 languages, including functional (Scala is the favorite);
- took part in architecting modern cloud-native data-intensive processing pipeline (k8s, GKE, Kafka);
- formed over 10 successful teams (3-10 engineers);
- leaded over 20 projects of different complexity;
- carried 150+ interviews;
- excellent communication skills: I don't speak much, preferring to listen, which is why people enjoy talking to me;
- excellent conflict resolution skills: mediating conflicts with ease;
- excellent team leadership & motivation skills: teams I lead are usually very efficient and enjoy working together - very low attrition;
- excellent presentation skills: carried 30+ presentations.
If you are a big corporation with complex hierarchical structure of management and have zillions of rounds of interviews - let's even not start. I got sick of those, as I prefer flat management when decisions are made quickly and progress/responsibility cannot be hidden.