Experience

Tradeshift

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 400 - 500 Employee

• VP Engineering

  • Sep 2018 - Present

  I've been leading the Platform Services organization to deliver. The Platform enables Tradeshift products and third-party implementations. There have been up to 14 teams spread over the EU, Siberia, and North America.

• Director Of Engineering

  • Jul 2015 - Sep 2018

  I was in charge of Product Engine, a solution to manage catalogs. After Tradeshift acquired Merchantry, I started with 20 engineers based in Novosibirsk, Russia. We went through the post-merger integration in a multi-national startup having teams spread over time zones & locations. The product we built was ready for UAT with the first customer in just five months, which was an outstanding outcome given the complexity of the task. Later in 2016, I stepped up to lead the engineering site. Over the next two years, I scaled it up to 35+ people who contributed to six business areas, being ultimately responsible for people, the product, and the process. Show less



Merchantry, a Tradeshift Company

• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Software Development Group

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2015

  As a group of 15 engineers organized in three teams, we created the PIM Plus platform for retailers, who invited their suppliers to prepare catalogs for the retailers' e-commerce solutions. My challenge was to make it work in a more distributed setup: the product owner and CTO were in NYC, the developers in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and we had customers in the USA and Europe. We launched about ten retailers while rolling out a new release every two weeks. A fun fact: a key success factor was re-implementing the platform UI in Web 2.0 Show less

• Product Owner

  • Feb 2011 - Jun 2013

  I was a Product Owner for a team who created a platform to run B2C marketplaces on top of the Ixtens Item Content Management platform.Any company could dare and spin up its own Amazon or eBay clone. Some did, for example, La Redoute, a French multi-channel retailer. Teaming up with the engineering lead, we changed development to follow an Agile process. My job was maintaining the road map, stakeholder management, backlog prioritization, and providing the user stories as a Product Owner usually does. Show less



Ixtens

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

• Head of Analytics & Projects Department

  • Jan 2010 - Feb 2011

  I started with three employees and expanded the department to 13 system analysts and project managers.The system analysts supplied engineers with Software Functional Specifications for both Platform development and implementations on top of the Platform, while the project managers were running implementation projects with the customers. I was the people manager for everyone and was in charge of the pre-Agile process, which was very efficient in supporting tens of customers to go live.

• System Analyst, Business Analyst

  • Feb 2007 - Jan 2010

  In charge of requirements for international e-commerce projects. I maintained Functional Specification documents for the ICM platform and customer implementation projects. Over the years, I built a working group of System Analysts that later became the Department.

• Java Developer

  • Mar 2005 - Jan 2007

  Java developer, later team lead. Enterprise ecommerce solutions.



Novosibirsk State University

• Software Engineer

  • Jan 2001 - Jun 2005

  I worked as a system administrator at Novosibirsk State University and a few smaller local companies. That included Linux, network, enterprise Windows, and Oracle 8i/9i areas for organizational units having 4 to 25 workstations each. Everything from hardware troubleshooting to license optimization. Besides that, I contributed to software development for the internal University's information system over the years. I was unofficially certified as Oracle 8i DBA. I worked as a system administrator at Novosibirsk State University and a few smaller local companies. That included Linux, network, enterprise Windows, and Oracle 8i/9i areas for organizational units having 4 to 25 workstations each. Everything from hardware troubleshooting to license optimization. Besides that, I contributed to software development for the internal University's information system over the years. I was unofficially certified as Oracle 8i DBA.