Position: Director of Engineering
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I've been working as a Senior Lead Software Engineer, Solution Architect, Project / Program Manager, Sr. Engineering Manager, and Principal Delivery manager:
- toryburch.com (Tory Burch brand website)
- privalia.com (leading Spanish marketplace)
- canadiantire.ca (Canadian retail company)
- istockphoto.com (owned by GettyImages - most extensive CA media asset stock)
- adidas.com (mobile version of Adidas brand website)
- marktplaats.nl (owned by eBay - largest NL classified)
- a bundle of smaller projects...
* T-Shaped ; 20+ years of production experience ; 10+ as systems & software engineer ; 10+ as a manager & technology leader
* Strong data-driven [people, delivery, project/program] management skills and leadership qualities [up to 70+ppl of direct+indirect reports]
* Pragmatic, result-focused mindset ; Strong problems solving abilities ; Remarkable communication skills ; Inclusivity, growth, and motivation-focused people leader
* Great Experience in building scalable engineering teams and delivery organizations [including all relevant processes] from scratch
* Outstanding full-stack technical leadership experience in e-commerce (retail/digital omni-channel, marketplace, drop-ship, etc.) and BigData Infrastructure (S3/DynamoDB + Spark, Hadoop, Iceberg/Hudi, Hive, Kafka, Trino, Airflow, etc.) domains
* Great software/systems design and development skills 
* Fan of Linux/FreeBSD, DDD, BDD/TDD, Testing Automation, Clouds (AWS, GCP), Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC, software observability + monitoring/telemetry, extensibility, and maintainability
* Expert in Python
* Good in JavaScript (both on Frontend and Backend) and Rust
* Some Java and Go experience
work-life balance