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

• Significantly drove down the number of production incidents by introducing postmortem analysis
• Introduced an automated release process that allowed much quicker releases and lower wait times
• Transformed an organization from component teams to cross-functional Scrum teams. Multiple times
• Drove an initiative to split a monolithic application into microservices
• Cut AWS costs by 20% by choosing the right resources and optimizing their usage
• 17 years experience. 10+ as Java Software Engineer, 7 as a manager & technology leader. 

• Worked with outsourcing, custom software development, and product companies at different scales (from a dozen of people to huge multinational corporations) in multiple industries (eCommerce, Fintech, FMCG, retail, aviation). 

• Experience in managing programs of up to 100 employees.
Know how to build a scalable sustainable architecture, including moving from monolithic applications to microservices. 

• Proficient with Agile methods and engineering practices: Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, XP, pair programming, code reviews, TDD, CI/CD

• Successfully building high-performance motivated teams since 2014

• Data-driven scientific approach: whatever the problem is, make a hypothesis, design an experiment, collect data, and make decisions based on data, not guesses. 

• Strong problem-solving skills: apply root cause analysis and 5 whys technique to get to the root of the problem to fix it permanently. 

• Business-oriented: I understand business needs, know how to communicate them to a development team, and can balance speed and product quality. 

• Stakeholder management at all levels: from middle management up to C-level

• Coaching approaches in working with people both on personal, team, and organization level

• Mentor and teacher: help people grow in their professional careers.