Position: Engineering Manager | Director of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 6

**Recommendations**:
* Previous company (300+ employees, outsource/outstaff/product): from CTO/EVP and a direct manager, able to get more on request;
* Current company (80+ employees, product): able to get from CTO & others on request.

**Certifications**:
* Google Cloud Certified Professional Cloud Architect;
* CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA);
* ScrumAlliance Certified ScrumMaster (CSM).

**Other**:
* Co-founded a hosting company whilst in high school. Took responsibility for virtually everything tech-related: from discovering opportunities to tuning Linux kernel, without anyone to ask for an advice. We grew from a single server to ~100 in just 2 years;
* Participated in Capture the Flag (CTF) tournaments. Took a prize-winning place at HackIT Ukraine with my team.
A key member of the Engineering Department (50+ engineers) in US-based FinTech company, with background in Development, Operations & Security.

* Acting as a Change Agent for Agile practices adoption. Working closely with CTO to plan, promote and perform the transformation;
* Responsible for fostering Communities of Practice (a.k.a. CoP or Spotify Guilds) & other culture-related practices;
* Product owner for DevOps/Infrastructure & AQA;
* Manager for the DevOps team (2 SW Architects, 2 Senior SREs & 1 Middle SRE), reporting directly to CTO.


**Previously**:
1. (product & outsource) Tech Lead for an IoT Platform, engineered and delivered the core & customer-tailored solutions. Builded a PaaS for managing platform installations on GCP, AWS and OpenStack. Actively participated in business development and sales activities;
2. (outstaff) Software Engineer & later Team Lead for Apache Spark team for an industry-leading commercial BigData Platform.


**On the personal side**:
* Huge aviation enthusiast & have 10 solo skydives on the record;
* Love exploring psychology, recently took MBA's Organizational Behaviour course;
* etc.
**Expectations**:
I am a result-oriented person and would love to join a product company with like-minded people who care about each other & the product.
Flexibility is one of my personality traits, therefore most things are negotiable for me. Nevertheless some are not, for example I won't be working for a beaurocratic enterprise that is not interested in adopting modern management practices and lacks trust in its employees.


P.S. If you happen to represent an outsource/outstaff company that'd like to use (or already uses) a truly customer-centric approach on day-to-day basis, I'd be more than interested to find out more! :)