Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 3 mos · United Kingdom

• Managing the engineering team across all regions and projects
• Manage the recruitment of new team members
• Hands-on with development of the product
• Ensuring code quality, craft and productivity within the team and the product
• Plan and manage the ongoing development of team members
• Reporting activities to key stakeholders, mainly the CEO and Board of Directors
• Attending conferences, meet-ups and other events as a representative of Tyk
• Taking part in public speaking and thought leadership as a representative of Tyk
• At times, work with the commercial team on client-facing pre-sales activity

Jan 2017 – Present · 9 yrs 5 mos · United Kingdom

Dec 2011 – Mar 2016 · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Full-stack development, architecture, team management.
• Featured project:
• Scalable data collection API (dozens of servers processing thousands of requests per second), making real-time data based decisions using rules written in human readable DSL language. #ruby #eventmachine #fluentd #aws
• User facing javascript library aimed for collecting user generated data, unique user tracking across different sites, and customer facing API. Designed for maximum speed and browser compatibility. #coffeescript
• Highly customizable OLAP reports for hundreds of millions data points in near real-time (DSL language for defining report logic, and automatically generated UI) #ruby #rails #redshift
• Real-time anomaly detection system for the support team to automatically detect common issues. Helped reduce the average time to fix time by 80%. #golang
• Scalable web scraping data collection pipeline with UI editor designed for non-technical people #python #scrapy #s3 #ruby #fluentd
• Server management automation making possible to handle dozens of servers by a single person. #aws #puppet #docker
• Improving development processes: continuous integration, git flow, deployment automation, “single-install” development environments, remote-first approach.

Feb 2011 – Sep 2011 · 7 mos

• Working on new and existing company projects
• Managing small team. High project scalability under heavy loads.
• #google_app_engine

Nov 2010 – Nov 2013 · 3 yrs

• Rapid Prototyping, Browser extension development, Web development
• Featured clients:
• oDesk.com - prototyping parts of UI for major platform update, browser extension development
• minus.com - browser extensions with image editing capabilities for Chrome and Firefox
• CodeRecon - front-end related work, creating Rails based UI from wireframes

Feb 2007 – Nov 2010 · 3 yrs 9 mos

• Lead Rails developer for complex billing system
• Managing team of web developers, front-end architecture.
• Implemented unique UI generation approach, which helped successfully manage large project with small team.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Web development consulting. While team was small, we were able to get attract some big contracts for e-commerce stores.