Position: Backend Team Lead | Java, Kotlin Developer
Category: Java
English level: upper
Years of experience: 11

As a developer:
I built (one of a kind) financial system which meets business SLA, is scalable, flexible (new logics require no programming), well documented. This system is a part of a payment service provider that processes numerous municipal and governmental payments in EU, let alone regular traffic.

 As a team leader:
 I joined a project when the team has already been formed. After one year I have absolute trust and acquired leadership, despite it is known to be the hardest way (typically a new leader would replace part of his team, if not all).

 As a system administrator:
I was a part of our core team who built one of the top 3 telecoms in  our region.
I have 17+ years of commercial experience on various positions and in different subject areas.

Started off as a NOC (network operations center) system administrator, gradually I switched to full stack web development, and then specialized in backend. I worked with numerous frameworks and tools throughout my career. 

For the last 9 years I work in fintech industry for Ukraine-based product companies. My main specialization is finance systems: building clients' balances, invoicing, reporting, payouts automation, etc. Of course, I am open for new experience.

My current team was formed well before I joined the project. As a tech leader, I put efforts into building a team strategy and processes. I conduct 1-1's and surveys, provide and take feedback. We successfully outsourced routine stuff. All team mates switched to the single tech stack under my supervision.

As a developer, I work on Kotlin, PHP and Java projects. Also, I invest some time into infrastructure improvements, such as: application containerization, collecting telemetry, implementation of a service bus in an SOA environment, etc.

Technologies short list:
 - Java, Kotlin, PHP, JavaScript
 - Symfony, Spring
 - MySQL, PostgreSQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Memcached
 - ELK stack, Grafana
 - RabbitMQ
 - Linux, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD, Jenkins, Gitlab.

Quick facts about me:
 - 4 years in roles of team/tech lead within last 10 years;
 - Constant learner (books, courses) with focus on team management;
 - C1 (Advanced) level of English (IELTS band score = 7.5/9 in May 2015);
My ideal position requires various skills, such as team leadership, architecture, development, project management, system administration, etc. I enjoy participating in product development and decision making.

My current goal is to develop as a team leader / VP / CTO. I will prefer projects that facilitate this goal. 

An ideal project that I am after is a mid-/long-term project (3-5 years and more) that requires a sound foundation, solid technologies and no “little blood” things.

I am not a good fit for your project if you like to take shortcuts, excessively use frameworks and libraries, create tons of tech debt, often switch context or cannot clearly explain exactly why you need a new person for your project.