Position: Director of Engineering / VPE / CTO / Head of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I have built many high-load big-data solutions myself, improved security, and reliability. And, of cause, there were many solutions we built as a team.

Another my recent success was in building teamwork and establishing processes in the team. Much was changed from individual contributors with simply a bug tracker and text documents for features. I set up JIRA, Kanban workflow, and Continues Delivery. 
 
Additionally to the office in Germany, I built a strong team around me at my location. Within the last two years, I hired almost a dozen people and fired half as many.
 
Recently we had a large product (re)launch, which required a lot of strategic thinking from my side and communication.
 
To keep it short, here are my other responsibilities within the last couple of years: 
 
* Build an overall strategy and maintain a product & tech roadmap. Estimate time & costs, manage projects, write technical tasks/assignments, etc.
* Communicate with stack holders, other departments, and customers (on- & offline). Hold presentations, do data analysis, and prepare various documents.
* Plan and execute larger technical projects and infrastructure improvements with my team.
* Evaluate and sign contracts with other companies.
* Hiring & firing people, publish vacancies, do interviews, incorporate new employees, negotiate salary with team members, etc.
* Lead distributed teams (at office & remote), do 1:1s, set monthly goals, do training, gather feedback, review code, delegate things, run standups & team meetings.
* Set up workflows. Implement Kanban and Continuous Delivery. Automate things. Manage JIRA.
* Mitigate incidents, handle emergencies (or better predict/avoid), write code, guidelines & documentation, monitor things.
As the Head of R&D, I’m managing other engineering leaders and individual contributors at multiple locations since the beginning of 2019. Ten direct reports in total. I have chosen a management career track but still am a hands-on high performer from time to time.

For the last 10 years, I have been employed at a German SaaS product company. I started as a full-stack developer & solution architect. Then I took a leadership role.

By the way, I’m fluent in four languages: English, German, Russian, Ukrainian.

Back in 2007, I took my first internship, a part-time job, and built products on my own. This product mindset helped me a lot throughout my career later on.

In 2015 I founded the second office at the company I was employed at and did my first hires. That’s when, after living over ten years in Germany, I moved to Ukraine.

In 2019 I took over the complete team at two locations with 10+ direct reports: mostly backend engineers, some frontend guys, and DevOps. I’m responsible for all R&D initiatives.

I’m a big fan of maintainability, reliability, security, and delivering on time. I’m passing on these values up & down.

Maintainability means that the code is easy to read among engineers. That is well archived by following best practices like SOLID, KISS, YAGNI & DRY.

Reliability requires well-established processes, high performance, automation, well-organized infrastructure, monitoring, etc.

Overall, I’m capable very well in many different things as a developer, architect, data engineer, DevOps, etc. Still, I see taking all this knowledge and apply it wisely on my team as my primary responsibility. The goal is to achieve the best results for the business short- & long-term.

I have an analytical mindset and love to keep my thoughts organized, written in documents, presentations, etc.

I’m sure there is much more I could share about my experience to match your company and circumstances more specifically.
I would love to join a product company or a startup and play a significant technical role in it.