Position: Director of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

WHAT OTHER PEOPLE SAY 

"...he is fueled by a relentless passion - he genuinely loves to hustle. Alex is not afraid to take ownership over a project and will not accept anything less than the best from himself and his team"
-Brian Donley, Kijiji

“I came to know him as an expert in solving tricky problems and making things happen”
-Ziqi Lin, HSBC

“His philosophy is that of continuous improvement and he strives to achieve that”
-Serge Galiullin, Booqed

“He is very thorough in everything he does”
-Maksym Kutsos, HYS Enterprise

“I got to learn a great deal from Alex”
-Vladimir Ovcharov, GlobalLogic

"He immediately created a welcoming atmosphere"
-Kathryn Dee, Booqed

"Alex is a great leader"
-Ilya Kurochkin, Booqed

“An asset to any team looking to build a world-class product”
-Mark Provost, CEO, Tango
*Mission*

I love to lead engineering teams and inspire people to give their best.


*Overview*

- Started a UX and mobile app agency and grew it to 15 people, then scaled down and sold it to one of the clients.
- Lead teams in Canada, Germany, Ukraine, and Hong Kong.
- Programmed in JavaScript, Python, Java using modern tools like React.
- Created products from zero to hero, and worked on an enterprise code base of 1m LoC.


*Experience*

Co-Founder, Insighty, May 2017 - present
I started a design and development studio with my best friend. We grew it to 15 people which presented alignment challenges. I brought in new clients, hired and trained the team members, codified the culture in 23 principles, created reading lists, growth programs, and evaluation procedures. Here are a few of the projects we worked on:

- Booqed is a Hong Kong startup that lets you find and book short-term workspaces like a meeting room or a coworking desk in Southeast Asia. They went through the Techstars program and raised $2m. 
We were their product team. I lead engineering, did user interviews and user testing, created the infrastructure, the testing, and release pipelines, and helped them hire internally and more.
My team built the Booqed mobile app, web admin portal, and API. I also outlined a plan for the new product called Cubic before I left.

- Tango was founded by two financial guys who wanted to build apps. We helped them build their app for the demo day at Startup Boost and supported their promotional activity building features and analytics. 
They pivoted since then, but the first generation app helped them get into a gener8tor program and raise a $1m seed round.


Director of Product, Ffair, Mar '21 - now

Product Lead, Quantum Mob, Sep '17 - May '18

Lead Software Engineer, Qoints, Dec '15 - May '17

Senior Software Engineer, FoodExpress, Sep '15 - Jan '16

Senior Software Engineer, Teradata, Apr '15 - Sep '15

Software Engineer, various companies, Feb '12 - Apr '15
I'd be thrilled to help a growing organization build world-class software teams.