Position: CIO, CTO, Project delivery manager, Technical manager
Category: Lead
English level: upper
Years of experience: 10

Participationg in launch neobank
Build card processing center
- Launched the first Neobank in the country in cooperation with the Ukrainian startup Fintech Farm. The first digital bank in the country without physical branches. After the launch, there was an extreme growth in the number of credit cards issued and delivered to customers, more than 50,000 cards in the first 2 months, with a target of reaching 1 million cards by the end of 2022.
- Developed and is now executing the project on core banking systems transformation to Reactive Microservices structure in order to reduce time to market and achieve technological flexibility. During this project all development processes were revised, a full-fledged SDLC process was built using the latest technologies of the open source community. Development of microservices based on Domain Driven Design within SDLC process allowed us to achieve following metrics: latency performance of services decreased 50%, deployment frequency scaled to on-demand principle, change failure rate decreased 6 times, application availability increased 10 times.
- In 2019-2020 initiated, led and executed major project on building internal Card Processing Center: sourced software vendor and negotiated VFM contract; ensured direct payment systems certification (Visa, Mastercard); organized and supervised data migration (over 600k credit cards); ensured acquiring network implementation (1500+ POS terminals, 100+ ATMs). Establishment of the in-house card processing center allowed Bank to advance to the 3rd place in Azerbaijan by the number of ATMs and plastic cards. attract new clients, provide increase in card transactions number up to 50 % and boost income on card transactions up to 3 times due to the implemented unique functionality for the card holders which is not offered by the third parties.
- Led and supervised software development for the mobile application update project (100k+ active users). 
- In 2018-2021 facilitated IT team growth up to 35%.
Interesting project with using new technologies in a team of open mind people who is really passionate about what their do.
Startup atmosphere.
I don't want to work for "old school" companies where bureaucracy is above real job.