Position: Engineering Manager, Team Lead, Mobile development
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 9

My most impactful achievements in my career:
- Built from scratch 3 mobile development teams;
- Coached and mentored 5 promotion cases (2 junior -> middle engineers, 2 middle -> senior, 1 senior -> Principal positions);
- Conducted over 100 technical and on-site interviews, resulted in more then 20 hires;
- Worked as the developer on 10 projects Android and iOS;
- Got my first team lead position after 4 months of employment (Samsung R&D, Multimedia apps team)
- 9+ years of experience in software development 
- 4 years of Engineering Management experience leading cross-functional delivery teams
- Technical hiring, building teams from scratch and team capacity planning
- Experience in communicating with users, customers, other technical teams and senior management to collect requirements, describe software product features and technical designs
- Delivering projects using agile methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, eXtreme Programming

04/2020 – now
Company: Zalando SE, Berlin, Germany 
Role: Engineering Manager 
Main responsibilities: 
• Building and managing Apps Size and Fit mobile team with 8 direct reports;
• Collaborate with product and design to ensure feasibility and guiding hypotheses in early product development stages;
• Contribute to hiring through employer branding events, interviewing and acting as a Talent Champion;
• People career, performance and development coaching and management;

09/2019 – 03/2020 
Company: Immobilien Scout24, Berlin Germany 
Role: Engineering Manager 
Main responsibilities: 
• Lead and manage multiple cross-functional teams both  remote outsourcing and one in-house; 
• Engaged with product managers and other functions across  the segment to plan and deliver initiatives aligned with  company-wide OKRs; 
• Guided individual contributors and tech leads on architectural  vision, software development practices and team development.  
• Technical hiring and people management

03/2017 – 08/2019 
Spark Networks GmbH, Berlin, Germany 
Tech Manager 

03/2016 – 02/2017 
Company: Ayuda Media Systems, Berlin, Germany 
Role: Senior Mobile Developer 
Responsibilities:
• iOS and Android development and support of existing products. 
• Driving architectural/technical decisions, managing scope and  expectation with customer 

04/2012 - 03/2016
Companies: Samsung R&D, Ciklum, Silicon Valley Insight LLC, Affinitas GmbH
Role: Android developer positions: junior (1 year) -> middle (2 years) -> senior(1 year)
From my experience the best collaboration and efficiency could be reached if my personal values and company / project values match. My core values are Time, Challenge, Creativity and Fun. Considering we spend a third of our weekday time at work, I believe that our workplace ought to be a place where everyone can feel a sense of fulfilment, growth and accomplishment. Not having fun in the process I consider to be the biggest crime!