Position: CTO, Solutions Architect, Team Lead, Senior Software Engineer
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

- Designed, deployed, and maintained a highly scalable distributed data processing platform on top of AWS cloud to process large file sets (1Tb+) in parallel
- Complete rewrite of a legacy REST API service, to achieve a load of 150 requests/sec from the company’s top-ranking iOS app. This enabled the company to earn an additional ~ $1000/day in ads revenue
- Built full-featured automated virtualized environments for product deployments and designed source code collaboration process to be able to quickly run & test specific product versions/features
- Designed, implemented, and put into production an inventory control system for a mid-size restaurant handling 50 people/day and enabling owners to plan their stocks, evaluate profit margins, etc.
A software development expert with proven hands-on experience managing small teams and building products from the ground up.
Having spent 18+ years in the industry as a professional and 27 years tinkering with computers overall, I've been able to make an impact in the areas of:
 * business accounting, 
 * client relationship management, 
 * finance & entertainment industry, 
 * data processing and reporting,
 * healthcare/fitness solutions
  
Having witnessed the rise and fall of new shiny tech over decades, I can grasp the real business problem at hand and suggest cost-effective and usually "boring" solution.  
A big fan of simplicity and a strong advocate of great user experience. I prefer to get things done over talking about getting them done. 
Practical over theoretical.

Expertise in:
 - People. Engage, mentor, and recruit the engineering team
 - Product. Pro-active collaboration in design, great attention to UX, and short and long-term implementation strategy to reduce time to market and achieve predictable development outcomes.
 - SDLC.  Setting up software development processes from scratch, CI/CD, DevOps, Project tracking, code reviews
Looking for an agile team of like-minded professionals with entrepreneurial culture targeting products for a global market. 
Would prefer real challenges, people with skin in the game, and minimum bureaucracy to achieve the most impact.