Position: CTO / Director of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 10

- Initialized and headed up migration from old infrastructure with 400+ nodes all over the world to AWS that significantly improved Churn rate and increased company revenue by $1.5 million
- Winner of Seed Forum pitches in New York, USA; Estonia; and Norway
- Pitch prize at the EMERGE conference 2018
- Top 15 startups for Techstars Alexa 2018 and top 75 for -- Techstars Retail 2018
- Top 15 startups for Starta Accelerator, New York
- “Fullstack education” by IT Awards, 2015
- “Team Commander of the year”  by Astound Commerce, 2013
An experienced leader and B2B founder, CTO with 10+ years in software development and 6 years of management experience in both start-up and established environments. Mentor with a strong technical background including architecture development, machine learning, and DevOps.

Accomplishments:
- Headed up AI product strategy and development
- Managed cross-functional product teams with 30+ team members
- Managed hiring & talent retention
- Created teams from scratch, set up and developed local offices, supervised and grew 6 Team Leads
- Expert in building distributed system architectures 
- Led startup tech due diligence by Microsoft Team and Montreal University PhDs
- Speaker at 10+ worldwide conferences in the US (New York), Europe (Norway, Malta, Estonia, Ukraine, etc)
- Winner and awardee of 4 pitch competitions
- Inspiring Leader with “Full Stack Education” awards by IT Awards

As a volunteer, I’m a judge at the Mathematics Olympiads and competitions for developers.
I'm looking for the product company/startup after the seed stage with a desire to expand worldwide. I really value passionate innovative teams that want to grow, learn quickly and fail quickly. The best company is the company where my skill set and experience can bring value and help to achieve the next company growth stage.