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

Extensive expertise in the fintech business domain, including blockchain and crypto. 
Experience in spinning-up and managing a branch of more than 50 employees.

Experience as SA / CTO : 7 years, including:

- Software architecture & design - both working on system design by myself as well as created a well-defined framework for other system architects.
- Live hands-on experience with absolute most of the technologies I use
- Close cooperation with business owners, vendors, investors
- Building development processes from scratch, including full SDLC cycle till software sunset
- Existing systems support, creating software systems from the scratch
- Building a team from scratch, growing a team. Experience in building hierarchical org structures.
- Opening & managing the regional branch
- Helping Lead Software engineers to build their career path
- Business analysis, market analysis and niche players analysis
- Risk analysis
- Building IT strategy
- Building a software engineering culture at the organization level
- Budgeting, participation in business planning
- Interviewing candidates for Senior and higher positions
During past 15 years I had experience in roles: 
Software engineer, Tech lead, System Architect / Solution Architect, CTO

Relevant tech stack expertise:
Java microservice stack: Java 8/11, JUnit, Spring 5, Spring Boot 2, Docker, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Private Cloud / AWS
Have broad experience with PHP 5/7 in past (Symfony + Doctrine stack)
Frontend stack: JavaScript (ES5, ES6+), Angular

Other:
MySQL/Aurora, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Elastic, Redis, DynamoDB, CouchBase
Kafka, RabbitMQ
Consul, Vault
Terraform, Helm
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript (ES6)

Blockchain:
Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solidity language

Big Data (beginner proficiency)
Apache Spark, Apache Airflow

CI/CD tools:
GitLab CI/CD, TeamCity, 

Observability/Telemetry:
ELK Stack, New Relic, Splunk

Techniques & styles:
Microservices, TDD, Refactoring, XP, DDD, Clean Architecture, GoF Patterns, Event Driven Architecture, CQRS
Scrum, Agile methodologies
UML, C4
Experience with both Monolith architecture & Microservices architecture, including Monolith to microservice migration.

Visas:
USA Visa B1 / B2

Personal qualities:
- Attention to details & quality
- Good communication skills
- Business-mission oriented mindset
- High demand on myself and team-mates
- Ability to offer stakeholders alternative system designs 
- Ability to bring a solutions for big complex problems
- Addicted to books, patterns & standards
Prefered domain: Fintech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Banking
Interested in long-term contracts 1 years+ and partnership with non-outsourcing companies.
Ready to take over an existing engineering team / department or create one from scratch.

NO outsourcing / outstaffing please, such a collaboration is a lowest priority for me.
No relocation - Dnipro only or remote. 
Business trips possible ad-hoc.