Experience

Devim

• Russian Federation
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO/CEO

  • Nov 2019 - Present

  After 2 years of work, the company was completely rebuilt in a seamless way.• The team was scaled up to 125 people (36 -> 16 -> 75 -> 125) • During the COVID-19 pandemic, we lost 5 employees but 18 were hired • Quantity is not equal to quality. We hired almost perfect employees who matched our goals and the DNA of the company• Processes have been transformed and adopted to the needs of the business • Product development follows a scrum process with a minimal time2market. Avg T2M was decreased by 20% • Projects are supported via kanban • Jira workflow transitions are automated • Key metrics are monitored via webhooks and influx with grafana• Through analysis, trial and error, the organizational structure was brought to the product office and cross-functional teams• HR department was rebuilt • Average rate of recruiting in normal mode is 5 employees per month • Average lifetime of an employee in the company was increased from 3 month to 1.3 years• The system was structured and placed under monitoring • Prometheus, Influx, Loki with Grafana helped to cope with that • Documentation update was integrated as a process • Infrastructure was optimized and tuned to fit our business requirements (hybrid of DC and cloud solution on k8s) • Stack was updated • Mobile apps - native to Flutter • Core backend - PHP 8, Symphony • Frontend - Typescript, React, Mobx, NextJS. • Service backend - Go• Started to use data based decision making (marketing, product and business data) • Kafka and ClickHouse integrated with • Appsflyer • Firebase • Postgres • Mssql • Apache Superset, PowerBI and Metabase for visualisation • Data is gained from web and mobile frontend • Data is also used for ML scoring and anti-fraud services Show less

• Senior IT Project Manager / CTO

  • Nov 2018 - Nov 2019

  In this company I saw a challenge for myself and was not sure that I could cope with it. But I really wanted to try.The main problems were:• High staff turnover • Bottleneck problems• Initial maturity level of the team• Critical bus factor and technical debt level• Lack of employee competencies and resources to solve business problems• Negative background between clients, management and employees of the company• Lack of understanding by shareholders of developers' needs for intangible stimulation and self-identification• Unreasonable stack diversity• Lack of documentation• Customers as "alert system" Show less



Softwerke

• Russian Federation
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT Project Manager

  • Mar 2017 - Nov 2018

  By March 2018 my area of responsibility has increased to management of a 12-person team throughout 13 successful projects. Core responsibilities:Author requirements and user stories for product features working with stakeholdersProvide week-to-week tactical objectives to team, and provide quick JIT decisions to system level questions and defect triageWork with 3rd party teams to drive process on schedule and on budgetDefining the road map and prioritizing the backlog of work to meet the vision in a timely manner to meet customer demandsDrive and own backlog grooming and management, prioritize the iteration and drive acceptance testing and delivery of iterationTrack budget and delivery of engineering projects and releasesDrive beta and pilot programs with early-stage features, Proof of concepts, etc Show less

• Java Lead Liferay Developer

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

  Came to the company as developer and grew up to team lead of 2 commercial projects.My responsibilities were :Performing detailed analysis of business requirements and development of comprehensive plans defining and scoping project requirements.Design of data- and program-architecture.Implementation of the most simple, readable and maintainable code.Development team coordination and distrubution of tasks between developers.CI/CD.



TeleTrade Russia

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• DevOps Engineer & Java Developer

  • Aug 2011 - Aug 2015

  Windows/Unix Servers and network administration Call-center management and automation (Kerio Control/ Kerio Operator) Maintenance of over 50 workstations (win 7) Infrastructure maintenance Simple web-apps development Windows/Unix Servers and network administration Call-center management and automation (Kerio Control/ Kerio Operator) Maintenance of over 50 workstations (win 7) Infrastructure maintenance Simple web-apps development