Position: VP of Engineering, CTO, Ruby on the project beginning
Category: Ruby
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

• Was a key tech person in 4 startups as a developer and manager. Recommendations from three CEOs.
20 years’ in commercial software development, mostly products but outsourcing too. Successfully launching and pivoting projects with tight deadlines. 12 years with a remote-first approach.
• Technologies: mainly Ruby stack, and, rarely, JavaScript, Python, C#, R. Also, I use GraphQL, JsonAPI, AWS, Docker, Git, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Elastic and MongoDB a bit.
• Several times I taught non-tech switchers to become Senior Developers, Project Managers, Quality Assurance, Business Analytics. From Zero to Hero.
Who I am
• Tech person. I wrote my first line of code 30 years ago and since then always kept expertise in modern technologies. Have actual Ruby developer experience. Some time ago solved the most complex tasks on HackerRank.
• Manager, up to 17 people remotely in five countries as VP of Engineering. A balance between scope, time, and budget. Translate from non-tech requirements to tech tasks and make tech slang understandable to businesspeople. Getting Things Done, MVP vs RAT, Scrum vs Kanban, and different motivation theories, Theory of constraints, KPI and their downsides, and other modern approaches.
I live in Ottawa, Canada. Having Permanent Resident status that means easily obtaining USA visa. If you have a project, that is going to start in North America, we might fit each other. 
What I'm looking for
• To combine what I do and what I love, something at the intersection of technology and people.
• To grow with the project. It's ok to start a new project as a developer and become a manager later.
• A project that is useful for end-users.