Position: CTO, VPoE
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

From the technical standpoint the challenges were:
- Reorganize the platform and its infrastructure from the ground up.
- Migration from the IaaS approach to containerized infrastructure based on Kubernetes at GCP (Google Cloud Platform).
- Break down a monolith-like platform into microservices to achieve scalability, high-availability, fault-tolerance and performance increase.
- Development of mobile apps.
- Build integrations with payment processing partners.
My contribution is usually about:
- Technical leadership over strategic initiatives.
- Work with senior leadership to turn vision into a tangible technical roadmap.
- Active work in product development; explore and innovate new technologies, features, and tools.
- Gathering a first-class engineering team. Serving as a subject matter expert, coach, visionary to constantly improve the team’s industry knowledge, technical proficiencies, and essential soft-skills.
- Maintaining and enhancing software quality by various methods including lean startup principles, agile methodologies, and continuous delivery.
- Contributing to the business development initiatives to use technology as the leverage.
- Working with the talent acquisition to source and hire amazing engineers.
- Managed a division of 100+ engineers.