Position: Project Manager
Category: Project Manager
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

As a fresh Technical Product Owner of DevOps team (essentially an IT coordinator) I took over a refactoring project of a client scoring system that was delayed for 2 years. I quickly digged into what halts development and deployment, escalated internal political issues to CTO and CEO and 3 months later project was live. Many didn't believe it happened. Main challenges were different teams fighting for DevOps resource and DevOps team trying to please everyone and as such nothing really had progress. By putting order in the house DevOps team could focus on what was most important and project was soon complete.

Oversaw dedicated hosting to AWS migration project of all of the systems with addition of redundancy, monitoring and backup mechanisms with parallel implementation or proper GDPR and PCI compliance. Main challenges were unstable hosting without any redundancy and working backups. DevOps team had to create new and modern hosting and deployment architecture and implement it using Ansible & Terraform automation. My personal challenge was to work with the team and split this huge work into iterations and milestones so we could go away from unstable hosting and have at least some backups.

Last but not least, I mapped out and oversaw continuous implementation of a vision for logging and monitoring for a distributed microservices architecture that was based on StatsD+Graphite+ELK+Grafana.
Hello! My name is Sergei and I'm looking forward to help you align your business and development. I have 11 years of experience in IT and last three years I've spent in leadership position aligning and coordinating project releases in a role of Technical Product Owner in DevOps team. Before that I also spent 2 years as Scrum Master and Agile Coach in Skype working alongside with Henrik Kniberg (author of Spotify model whitepaper), Chris Matts (co-creator of BDD) and Jim Coplien (influences of Scrum framework).

All of my work was around finance and payments.

I'm technically savvy - I dig bash, PHP, python, AWS, ansible, ELK.

I'm looking forward to fill in a role that can translate business requirements into technical stories, that can remove ambiguity in the process. In addition to being a Project Manager / IT Coordinator and I can fill a system analyst and test manager role..

I freely speak Russian, English and Estonian languages.
I'm looking for a full-time, half-time or freelance gig with a remote team. It would be perfect if you are influenced by DHH and Basecamp philosophy.