Position: CTO / VP of Engineering  / Engineering Manager / Technical Lead
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- Performed a successful organizational transformation of the engineering department, increased TTM by 50%
- Led architecting, development and successful deployment of an end-to-end B2B2C SaaS trading platform for derivatives and stocks trading that scaled to handle hundreds of billions of dollars in annual trading volume.
- Built a QA automation department from scratch, fully rebuilt Devops department workflows, including 100% infrastructure deployment automation
- Built an engineering culture of excellence within the team, worked on employees' professional development by introducing Personal Development Plans with specific KPIs
- Co-founded a startup
- Transformed a number of SaaS platforms towards new practices to improve robustness and maintain healthy work environments
- 17 years of working experience in software development, 10 years of leading engineering departments (up to 70 people), including managing managers
- Experienced in leading all stages of product development, including requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation, and support
- Data-driven approach: I study the problem, make a hypothesis, run an experiment, make decisions based on the resulting data
- Business-oriented: I know how to balance between the business needs and tech efforts to create an optimal outcome for the company
- Experienced in architecting scalable distributed systems using microservices and event-driven approaches, and hands-on software development
- Experienced with building AQA, QA, DevOps and development processes from scratch, and optimizing existing ones
- Worked for multi-national product companies & startups in e-commerce, fintech, online marketing, trading, gambling industries
Building R&D teams, setting up SDLC and efficient engineering processes
Preferably product development, including startups. Figuring out real customers' needs in order to address them.
A combination of technological and people/project management challenges is preferred