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

- Hired, led and grown teams and departments starting from 6 FTEs all the way up to 90 FTEs + contractors.
- Architected and led the development of distributed highly available systems in the decentralized identity space with the focus on data privacy and security.
- Led the development multiple edge and cloud-based wallets for verifiable credentials and other types of Web3 assets, such as NFTs and SBTs, to enable end users to own their financial, health and employment data.
- Created high performing engineering teams and departments that showcased cycle time less than 48 hours with consistent planning accuracy of 70%+.
- Hired, onboarded and mentored 3 full-scale engineering teams around (15-20 people each) for one of our customers in Singapore as part of the team of experts while developing the initial version of a system as per customer's requirements (Build-Operate-Transfer model). Interviewed ~300 candidates just for this involvement to staff the teams.
- Developed an inventory management system for a fleet of LNG and petrol carriers to improve budget handling related to spare parts management. Created an offline-first React Native client for the APIs. Deployed the solution on vessels on-prem and set up a multi- master sync of data using CouchDB.
Experienced engineering leader with a strong background in full stack software development, including cloud infrastructure using AWS & Kubernetes. Have a track record of setting up remote distributed and collocated teams from scratch (two divisions for companies, 18 and 35 people respectively). Responsible for directing high performance engineering teams and managing complex projects from concept to production. Seeking to leverage my expertise with different business domains including Fintech, Healthcare, Maritime, as well as the exposure to Web3 world beyond the hype of cryptocurrencies into areas like Self-Sovereign Identity to drive innovation and high performance of engineering and product teams.
I'm happy to join the existing team to steer further growth of the engineering department or set up the team from scratch.