May 2020 – Oct 2024 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Remote · Remote

• Core Notifications Team: Shipped the next generation of the notification platform, which boosted user engagement and other teams to ship features involving notifications, including 2FA auth.
• Led multiple initiatives, and mentored developers.
• Actions Team: Played a pivotal role in enabling new runner types, optimising Azure integration, and architecting the next generation of the Actions platform. Coached team to switch technology stack and get up to speed with Golang.
• Service Mesh Team: Planned fanout efforts, proactively communicated and onboarded teams to utilize service mesh, significantly enhancing GitHub's security.

Aug 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · Hybrid

• Created engaging learning materials, including coding exercises, projects, and assessments, to enhance students' understanding and practical application of programming concepts.
• Mentored and provided guidance to students through one-on-one sessions, code reviews, and technical support, helping them overcome challenges and achieve their learning goals.
• Developed two educational programs from scratch, designing the curriculum, creating learning materials, and ensuring the programs aligned with industry standards and emerging technologies.

Nov 2017 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 11 mos · Berlin Area, Germany · Remote

• Service/platform engineering in Office 365 Tasks team/Microsoft To-Do and Wunderlist.
• Building next generation service for core O365 applications scaled for millions daily active users across corporate and consumer segments.
• Leading feature projects: coordinating delivery, measuring business impact, improving dev cycle between teams.
• Responsible for the full engineering cycle, including feature design & implementation, on-call rotation, operating in high-load, highly-compliant environment.
• Keeping strong focus on mentoring peers.
• Striving to delight our customers: taking part in support rotation, user interviews, keeping team connected to end user.
• Current Tech stack:
• Ruby, Scala, Java, C#, Go
• Microsoft stack: Exchange Online, Powershell, Substrate

Dec 2016 – Nov 2017 · 11 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• Leading team of 4 people, building Digital Experience at Zalando with ownership of several customer-facing applications.
• E2E ownership customers engagement product area in big e-commerce shop.
• Service(Scala/Java)/Platform engineering/Front-end (React/Redux)
• Developed a mentoring program in the department.

Jun 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr 5 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• Building high-load microservices, Scala/Js full stack development (Play/Akka/Slick - React/Redux/Sass).
• Production system support, part of mentality - “you built it, you run it”, participate in on-call duty, automation on infra (Chef, Ansible)
• Requirement gathering, coordination with product and business side, documentation, specs development.
• Support/сoaching of core frontend team improved React setup.
• Converted UI-engineer to become service engineer in 3 months.

May 2014 – Jul 2015 · 1 yr 2 mos · Berlin Area, Germany

• Responsibilities:
• Front-end Development with Angular and React
• Backend development using NodeJs and Play 2 (Scala, Akka)
• Achievements:
• Made review and optimisation of frontend development process
• Performed design changes in codebase to make it clear and maintainable

Jul 2013 – May 2014 · 10 mos

• UI development with Backbone and AngularJs
• Back-end development with Scala/node
• Technologies:
• Akka
• Spark, Shark
• Hadoop, Hive
• Node.js
• Express.js
• AWS
• Angular.js
• Backbone
• PhoneGap/Cordova

Jan 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos

Jun 2011 – Jan 2012 · 7 mos