Engineering Manager

• Apr 2022 - Present

Engineering Manager

• Aug 2020 - Mar 2022

• Led 2 teams of 11 professionals – front-end (JS, React) and back-end (Java) engineers. The teams were responsible for building extensibility capabilities of Jira in cloud (SaaS). • Cooperated with PM, senior leadership and other teams on building the teams' product roadmaps based on OKRs. • Was accountable for the results of the teams, introduced agile and lean practices to improve the teams' performance. • Was responsible for long-term and mid-term work planning, cooperation with other teams, removing obstacles, team members' motivation and personal growth, hiring, onboarding, etc. • Managed the teams' on-calls and was Major Incident Manager for Jira. Show less

Engineering Manager

• Apr 2016 - Jun 2020

• Led the team of 7 professionals – mobile (Kotlin, Swift), front-end (JS, Koa), and back-end developers (PHP, Node.js).• Responsible for planning the work, designing architecture, cooperation with other teams, removing obstacles, team members’ motivation and personal growth, hiring, onboarding, etc.• Accountable for the results of the team, made sure we delivered quality results on time.• Designed an architecture of a complex web system with 6 web and mobile clients, and 10+ external services.• Worked hand in hand with PM on product planning; introduced impact mapping & user story mapping.• Introduced and facilitated Scrum; helped in transitioning organization from waterfall to agility.• Made switch from Scrum to Kanban; limited lead time from weeks to hours.• Organized and facilitated group coaching meetings for EMs; provided help to 6 EMs.• Introduced BDD and automatic tests; reduced number of reported bugs 4 times.• Mentored 5 junior/mid developers, coached 5 senior developers; facilitated 6 promotions.• Developed back-end REST API apps in PHP 7 (Symfony), JS (Node.js), MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, GCP. Show less

Software Engineer

• Jul 2014 - Mar 2016

• Developed web apps in 6 projects with PHP, JS, MySQL, MongoDB, RabbitMQ.• Helped the client prioritize project objectives; saved €55K YoY with 1st version in a month.• Introduced automatic and continuous deployments; in 2 days saved €5K YoY.• Introduced Docker for creating dev environments and deploying them to the cloud (AWS).

Software Developer

• Jul 2013 - Jun 2014

• Developed the educational platform with PHP, MySQL, Elasticsearch, JS, jQuery, HTML, CSS.• Introduced Vagrant to create local dev and test environments; in 2 weeks saved €40K YoY.

Junior Software Developer

• Jun 2012 - Jun 2013

• Maintained educational platform with PHP, MySQL, MSSQL, JS, jQuery, HTML, CSS.• Carried feasibility study over migration from internal PHP framework to Symfony2.• Conducted a change of team's SCM from SVN to Git.

XHTML & CSS Expert

• Aug 2010 - May 2012

• Helped users deal with their XHTML & CSS problems • Implemented sample websites for web development training courses • Prepared questions for web developer certification tests • Helped users deal with their XHTML & CSS problems • Implemented sample websites for web development training courses • Prepared questions for web developer certification tests

Web Developer

• Jun 2003 - May 2012

• Planned, developed and delivered 12+ commercial and non-profit web sites • Developed very own CMS in pure, objective PHP • Dealt with both back-end: PHP 4/5, SQL (MySQL), Wordpress; front-end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript with jQuery as well as planning, web design and deployment • Planned, developed and delivered 12+ commercial and non-profit web sites • Developed very own CMS in pure, objective PHP • Dealt with both back-end: PHP 4/5, SQL (MySQL), Wordpress; front-end: HTML, CSS, JavaScript with jQuery as well as planning, web design and deployment