Position: CTO / Senior Architect / Director of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I think my key strength is soft skills, both in terms of being team player/strong leader and technology. I prefer "polymath" style shallow but meaningful and hands-on experience in huge spectrum of technologies, and deep specialisation in few where I can perform the best. This two-dimensional coverage gives me an efficient mindset to work with strong experts in domains, technologies and tools where I have only basic knowledge, but still having enough understanding of engineering patterns to perform 'bridging' function between conceptual design of technological solution and smallest implementation details.

In practice it very often happened that I was assisting engineers with resolving hardest issues in technology stack I was not very well aware about, just having docs on one display and code on the other, with my wide-spectrum background helping to find the proper solution. 

Attention to details and flaw intolerance is my second most important strength. I believe that quality is a key to any product's success and quality starts from proper attention to smallest details. 

I am dedicated to learning and innovating in terms of science/research and consider that we need to use any opportunity to supercharge a tech product with either edge-level technology or our own original inventions. That might make things a bit more complicated, but will definitely repay and usually that takes not so long.

On the other side, I am very pragmatic and realistic when it comes to business. I had lots of experience with managing budget and organisational constraints, and have mindset to communicate with customers/investors and see the whole picture with their eyes. 

Having strong theoretical background in Project Management - methodologies, PMBOK etc. (M. Sc. degree in Project Management in IT).
I am a geek with early start in IT since high school and experience across several domains and generations of programming technology and tools, observing whole evolution of mainstream tools from Visual Basic 6, Delphi and WinForms to modern web/cloud based stacks. I mostly worked on enterprise software and SaaS solutions, but my true love is robotics/IoT. 

My experience includes failed student-years startups, work on international research projects in supercomputing and robotics on leading positions, implementing mobile enterprise software development tools and components for  a leading global provider, building a next-gen ERP platform for a company with 1000+ employees (as responsible person in charge of whole project), leading technology transition to modern web/cloud stack for leading US and German e-commerce companies. 

As hobby projects, I am working on research projects in vertical farming, reconfigurable computing hardware for AI applications and 3D printing.
Being more than satisfied with my current job as Team Leader / Software Architect, I understand however it's time for growth and I consider that I am more efficient in conceptual design, research, defining standards and teambuilding than in regular software product delivery. Still, in my opinion C-levels in IT must have regular hands-on experience with coding.

I'd like to find a position where employer would consider me to be a perfect match, and I will be at least as happy as I am now on my current position. You can expect long-term cooperation and full dedication to company improvement and growth.