Position: Engineering Manager / Head of Engineering
Category: Java
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

In addition to pure delivery work, sharing experiences with others is one of my priorities and internal achievements. Previously, I taught programming at a national university; as a result, more than 20 of my former students became professional software engineers. Later, I founded and led the technical community in Lviv, Ukraine (50+ offline events, 1500+ participants). Active speaker, blogger, and conferences program committee member.
Expert in delivering and selling software in a diverse, geographically distributed environment for leading technology companies in Silicon Valley, on the East Coast, Europe, and Asia.

Throughout my professional career, roles varied and evolved from a software engineer, a team lead, a tech lead, solutions architect to engineering manager and director of consulting & solutions:
- Led a team that has built, deployed, and released overnight a totally new version of a portal related to services (e.g. carpenters, electricians, etc.) to 75%+ of the Dutch online population
- Guided engineering team (~20 ppl.) during the implementation of a backward-compatible API used by a core member portal (20 mln active users)
- For a leading cloud-based website builder company established a presence in Lviv, Ukraine, by helping to open a brand-new site. Recruited, hired, and on-boarded a driven and high-performing team by focusing on the coaching and development of the engineers. A newly established and, at the same time, the growing team successfully delivered a key milestone for the product on time according to the defined quality standards. 
- For a leading services company, led the company’s sales engineering, technical pre-sales, and thought leadership. Directly contributed to the BU’s 50% YoY revenue growth, served as a lead sales engineer to close 30+ new clients, and led a rock star team of solution architects who, in total, closed additional 20+ new clients
- More details on some technical challenges and solutions are in the attached CV; please have a look

Everywhere I work, I do my best to lead with compassion and bring value to the team, unit, and company, not limited to the requested job role and responsibilities.