Position: CTO
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 8

When I started working at my current position, products documentation, for both business and software engineering, consisted of a few outdated high-level diagrams, which did not really help to understand their business context or solutions architecture. Processes were not defined as well, and teams worked in Ad-Hoc manner. 
Today we have a comprehensive documentation, which encompasses business context, software solutions engineering at all stages of SDLC, and processes used in the company. In 2019 our documentation has passed Technical Due Diligence by both partner IT Companies, and independent auditors hired by a multinational Venture Capital firm, which helped us with proceeding to a next investment round, and with attracting new customers.
My name is Aleksandr, I am passionate about Software Engineering and Project Management. For the last 2 years I am leading the engineering of "Artificial Intelligence at you fingertips" solution OWN.space at the German-Russian start-up. Previously I have led teams of 4-6 Software Engineers with whom we worked on outsourse projects on front-end side of web applications, backend services, and web platforms based on Content Management Systems. With almost all of the projects I have worked on, my dedication & orientation on results lead to me assuming a leadership position, even if it was not initially on the table. I feel comfortable leading teams of Software Engineers (both on-site & remote), and working at all stages of Software Development Life Cycle.

I would love to challenge myself more, and work in a leadership position on products with daily users in the counts of millions, or in a startup where I would either need to build the engneering team from scratch, or improve the processess within the existing team.
I do not want to work in an outsourcing company, or in a small team with well established processes.

Ideally, I would like to join a new department of a big company, that starts to build an engineering team. Less prefferably, but also good, just join a company with products daily users users in the counts of millions, or a company that wants to change their processes to become Agile.
I would also consider positions at startups at early stages, where I would need to build an engineering team, processes and culture for it.