Position: Director of Engineering/CTO/Head of R&D
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 9

6 years ago I was hired as the first person in Kyiv. During this time company released for users two different platforms: Fahlo.me (access is not available right now, Biggest audience is 600k MAU) and Bkstg.com (Audience is 300k MAU). Now we are developing new product. During all this time I was leading full stack development that mostly located in Ukraine with five engineering departments: WEB, API, IOS, Android, and QA. My responsibilities there are to:
* Maintain engineering process in order to have high quality product
* Negotiate with other services in order to integrate with them
* Roadmap and estimate upcoming projects
* Groom and implement ongoing projects in time
* Lead people management, organizational and financial stuff of Kyiv office.
Engineering Experience 10+ years
Managing 20-70 people team last six years
Open office from stretch
Develop and implement development processes. Have a deep understanding of modern management frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Spotify-like process.
Managing Financial and administrative live of the office
Leading team of different technologies (web-development, API development, Mobile, QA, data, Infra)
Has experience in releasing cross-platform products
Define and estimate up-coming projects
Strong background in mobile development
Interviewing and hiring talented engineers
Experience working with distributed teams (Kyiv, NY, LA)
Conceptual thinking, focused on result, excellent communication skills
Preference to Product companies.

My professional interests:
- Challenging innovative projects (Web, AI, ML, Blockchain, Mobile, Enterprise solutions);
- Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban);
- Professional growth and development, education and conferences;
- Business trips in EU, US;