Vladimir Izmalkov

Senior Technical Writer at Vaticle
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(386) 825-5501
Location
London, England, United Kingdom, UK
Languages
  • Russian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • German Elementary proficiency

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Credentials

  • Troubleshooting Your Network with Wireshark
    LinkedIn
    Apr, 2017
    - Oct, 2024
  • English language school certificate
    Royal Holloway, University of London
    Jul, 2002
    - Oct, 2024
  • Information security administrator for ViPNet 3.2
    InfoTeCS JSC
    Aug, 2014
    - Oct, 2024

Experience

  • Vaticle
    • United Kingdom
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Technical Writer
      • Nov 2022 - Present

      • Develop developer-oriented documentation for all products: TypeDB DBMS, TypeDB Console, TypeDB Studio, TypeQL. • Develop sample applications and examples for the documentation. • Maintain documentation content repository. • Migrate documentation from Markdown (Jekyll) to AsciiDoc (Antora). • Improve internal processes for documentation, embedded into products release policy. • Develop a style guide for the documentation. • Develop a style guide for TypeQL (query language). • Develop developer-oriented documentation for all products: TypeDB DBMS, TypeDB Console, TypeDB Studio, TypeQL. • Develop sample applications and examples for the documentation. • Maintain documentation content repository. • Migrate documentation from Markdown (Jekyll) to AsciiDoc (Antora). • Improve internal processes for documentation, embedded into products release policy. • Develop a style guide for the documentation. • Develop a style guide for TypeQL (query language).

  • VK Cloud Solutions
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • VK Cloud - Team Lead Technical Writer
      • Sep 2022 - Nov 2022

      Developing user documentation for VK Cloud - Enterprise Cloud Platform.Managing a team of 5 specialists.Communicating and collaborating with engineers and managers throughout the big VK Cloud Solutions to develop the best possible content.This position is being complemented by my other role as the Private Cloud Docs Team lead.

    • Private Cloud - Team Lead Technical Writer
      • Nov 2020 - Nov 2022

      Developing Technical Documentation for the on-premise cloud platform software solution.I'm leading a team of 10 people: 4 technical writers, 4 analytics, QA and a DocOps.Achievements:• Created my team from scratch: recruited and trained people 15 people. • Developed a style guide.• Developed a full set of documentation for a cloud platform: terms of reference, user guide, admin guide, test program etc. 600+ pages.• Supervised development of documentation for more than 6 projects (including infosec certification), internal documentation on multiple modules/components.• Created an internal knowledge base in Confluence.• Helped to found and then became a leader for a professional community of technical writers in my company.Main used technologies: OpenStack, openstackcli, Keycloak, Zabbix, ELK / Opensearch, docker, asciidoc, git, linux, ssh, Jira, Confluence, Postman, JSON, Python, Terraform, Kubernetes (K8s).Developed the following processes:• Agile sprints, retrospective meetings, planing, daily scrum meetings, style guide discussions.• Filtering and interviewing candidates, recruiting, adaptation and education of subordinates and colleagues.• Complex documentation development for on premise cloud platform and its byproducts.• Project documentation development for software and systems, including infosec certification.• Cross-review and control review of all documentation changes.• Organisation of technical reviews.• Interviewing subject matter experts and source codes analysis for ensuring documentation quality.• Managing Knowledge base.• Organisation of professional community, internal meetups and training sessions. Show less

  • GeekBrains
    • Russian Federation
    • E-Learning Providers
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Dean
      • Jan 2021 - Jun 2021

      • Developed a full detailed training plan (8 training courses). • Found and filtered course authors and trainers. • Developed 2 training courses myself. • Participated in marketing activities. • Coordinated other authors. • Developed a full detailed training plan (8 training courses). • Found and filtered course authors and trainers. • Developed 2 training courses myself. • Participated in marketing activities. • Coordinated other authors.

  • Ailet Solutions
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Lead Technical Writer
      • Mar 2020 - Mar 2021

      • Developed technical and user documentation. • Eliminated 1.5 years of technical debt in documentation. • Implemented docs-as-code approach. • Created documentation team from scratch. • Developed technical and user documentation. • Eliminated 1.5 years of technical debt in documentation. • Implemented docs-as-code approach. • Created documentation team from scratch.

  • Mail.ru Group
    • Russian Federation
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Lead/Senior Technical Writer
      • Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

      • Wrote documentation both in English and Russian for in-memory DBMS Tarantool with 7000+ public installations worldwide, big enterprise domestic clients and internal clients. • Managed Security certification for the Tarantool Data Grid product: organised certification process, designed information security requirements, interviewed engineers to implement required security features and prepared over 35 documents for certification. • Eliminated more than 1 year of technical debt in documentation for the Tarantool Data Grid product. • Developed project documentation and/or applications/bids for 10+ tenders. • Developed proposals for KPIs and metrics for documentation. Show less

  • VNII GOChS
    • Head Of Research Department
      • Apr 2016 - Jul 2019

      • Designed and performed author supervision over system integrator to implement Disaster recovery and emergencies management Automated systems for Kyrgyz Republic with $4M budget per project.• Developed technical proposals and tender bids for World Bank Group tenders to create automated system for emergency services in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.• Produced feasibility studies, technical reports and other documents for World bank Group.• Created a System-112 lab and demo stand (12 universal PCs and a server-room) to researchand showcase emergency services dispatchers procedures and technologies.• Coordinated System-112 integration for Research Centers and IT companies.• Hired, mentored and managed a team of 5 system administrators to support 500 PCs, 9server racks, video surveillance and other systems.• Introduced ITIL standards in IT department to expedite tasks delivery and improveefficiency.• Created 328 hours curricular for 4 courses, delivered 136 hours of lectures and seminarson Tech Standards, Automated systems in Emergencies and Information Technologies for students and professionals. Show less

    • Researcher (from Junior to Senior)
      • Jul 2011 - Apr 2016

      • Reviewed technical documentation for system-112 in Russian Federations regions.• Developed legislation for system-112 in Russia.• Provided expert support for EMERCOM of Russia on system-112 technologies.• Organised and participated in government acceptance tests for system-112 in Russia.• Communicated with The European Emergency Number Association (EENA).• Committed to RnD tasks and reports on system-112• Developed concepts and documents for Head Designer of system-112 test lab. Show less

  • Bauman Moscow State Technical University
    • Russian Federation
    • Higher Education
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Jul 2008 - Jan 2011

      Helped with organisation of events. Produced documents. Automated documents processing. Processed and analysed information. Developed software (win32 applications, web-scripts). Deployed and managed web-portals, forums, ftp-server. Technologies: Delphi, PHP, VBA, LAMP, CMS. Helped with organisation of events. Produced documents. Automated documents processing. Processed and analysed information. Developed software (win32 applications, web-scripts). Deployed and managed web-portals, forums, ftp-server. Technologies: Delphi, PHP, VBA, LAMP, CMS.

  • ZAO AMT
    • Junior Software Developer
      • Jul 2006 - Sep 2008

      Developed software for aerospace and physical monitoring of gas and oil pipelines. Developed a module to correlate reference points between different data sets of different years of monitoring data of the same pipeline. Developed a module to find the same defects of the same pipeline in multiple datasets from different years. Developed a module to show a progression of defects over time. Worked on smaller tasks in GUI. Lots of testing and debugging, Developed software for aerospace and physical monitoring of gas and oil pipelines. Developed a module to correlate reference points between different data sets of different years of monitoring data of the same pipeline. Developed a module to find the same defects of the same pipeline in multiple datasets from different years. Developed a module to show a progression of defects over time. Worked on smaller tasks in GUI. Lots of testing and debugging,

Education

  • Bauman Moscow State Technical University
    Master's degree, Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical/Space Engineering
    2005 - 2011
  • Bauman Moscow State Technical University
    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science
    2010 - 2011
  • VNII GOChS
    Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology
    2011 - 2014

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