Position: CTO in Poland/EU
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

Company A (role pre-sales architect)
- 25 successful sales and up-sales of software development projects in 2022-2023
- 8 completed discoveries and architecture assessments
- made 2 accelerators (DevOps, Node) to speed up project start

Company B (role CTO)
 - reduced time to market for small fixes and bugs from 10 days (240h) to 18h.
 - reduced time to hire engineers (from vacancy to start day) from 10 weeks to 4 weeks.
 - made the working place attractive for engineers, reduced resignations from 10% monthly to 0% monthly.

Company C (role Lead Architect)
 - improved relationships with Chinese developers (partner outsource company) and launched 2 Apps in China in 4 months. (Typical time for a new company to launch an app is 1,5 years due to gov regulations).
 - started tech management team to bring innovation and grow leadership. It allowed reducing resignations from 8% monthly to 2% monthly.

Company D (role Lead Architect)
 - together with top management and my own tech plans, we’ve got 26 Million euro investment from Prime Ventures.
 - build processes for the DevOps team, which allowed to reduce downtime for critical services from 180min monthly to 0.
 - grown tech team from 20 to 60 engineers. Helped 3 engineers to grow into engineering managers.

I've got pet projects with 20K real users.

Managing teams in The Netherlands, OAE, China. Worked with colleagues from ~25 nationalities.
As pre-sales architect, I'm closing 1-2 contracts per months. Each contract is plus 50-500K euro to company's revenue. I can setup effective sales teams, and setup sales funnel for IT services.

As a manager/VP engineering I'm effective in managing 50-100 engineers. Setting up middle management, functional excellence. Establish engineering culture, measurement of effectiveness, operational excellence.

Overall experience:
- Backend development 14 years - PHP (Zend Certified), Symfony, Node.js, Golang, RabbitMQ, NATS, gRPC, MySQL (Oracle Certified), Postgres.
- Team lead - 6 years, including leading distributed teams, living in Kyiv, Amsterdam, Dubai
- DevOps, Cloud, SRE - 3 years cloud & on-premise, managing infra for a company with 8M active users. K8s, Serverless, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Terraform, AWS (Amazon Certified), AWS Lambda.
- Solutions Architect, Cloud Architect - 5 years - managing projects for US, EU, China markets. TOGAF, C4, documentation practices.
- CTO, R&D Director - 2 years - full responsibility for people, projects, technology

Business areas:
 - e-commerce
 - media streaming & distribution
 - SaaS, PaaS, 
 - affiliate marketing
 - app development

Markets: EU, US, Latam, China.
Living abroad (in The Netherlands) 2015-2020.