Position: Senior backend developer / Tech lead
Category: Lead
English level: fluent
Years of experience: 11

I had co-founded a video conferencing startup, which had whole two clients, one of them being a governmental institution, but it's discontinued years ago. Does this count?

Jokes aside, the only real achievement so far is reviving a dying advertisement startup, which had lame technology & destroyed online reputation. I came there as a middle dev to a team of three developers & two managers and three years later left the flourishing company of 50+ as a CTO.
I design & program highly maintainable systems intended for scale and a long run. Big fan of standards, infrastructure & automation, testing & documentation, fault tolerance, monitoring & reporting.

My developer experience ranges from somewhat regular web development (web stores & social networks) to content management systems to advertisement platforms, then to video conferencing software, and briefly touches (in the distant past, though) CG programming & game development.

Used to be a CTO in startups, gathered & trained teams, worked on project architecture, development & management, but these days I prefer to stick closer to tech & code.

People say I'm kind of good at mentorship — I used to interview & onboard new people, and have given few internal talks on unit testing, SOLID principles & design patterns for the mid & junior staff, and they loved it, and so did I.
I'm looking for a competent & motivated team which has top notch development and management culture or is willing to grow and have one. I can help with the development part.

I'm not a fan of 9-6 work schedule and prefer shorter days or somewhat flexible time. You (well, at least I) can't be effectively creative for 8 hours straight every day. I work smart, not hard.

The actual industry, technological stacks & architectural approaches don't matter much to me, but if I was to choose I'd like to stick closer to strictly typed & compiled languages, and distributed/microservice architectures.

I'm not very good at sysop job. Infrastructure management is a completely different specialty, despite what advocates of DevOps and similar practices have to say, so I prefer to leave it to dedicated professionals.