Jul 2020 – Jul 2025 · 5 yrs

• As a Director of Engineering at CodeSignal, I have built and led multiple high-performing engineering teams, scaling the organization and fostering career growth. I played a key role in hiring, mentoring, and developing engineers—helping them grow from Software Engineers to Tech Leads and Engineering Managers. At peak, I managed a department of 20 people and up to 12 direct reports.
• I have led the IDE Simulation, Individual Experience, Cloud Platform, and Content Engineering teams, driving innovation in technical assessments and developer experience. Some of the key projects I spearheaded include:
• Collaborative IDE Simulation – Enabling real-time coding interviews and technical evaluations.
• EKS-Based Automated Testing Platform – A scalable, cloud-native solution for efficient assessment execution.
• Collaborative Whiteboard Simulation – Enhancing the technical hiring process with interactive problem-solving.
• AI-Powered Code Checkers – Leveraging AI to improve the accuracy and efficiency of technical assessments.
• Throughout my tenure, I focused on building a strong engineering culture, streamlining technical processes, and delivering impactful solutions that improved developer hiring and assessment experiences.

May 2017 – Jul 2025 · 8 yrs 2 mos

• In addition to my engineering leadership, I have been the General Manager of CodeSignal’s Europe team, overseeing a remote-first team of up to 50 people. My responsibilities include:
• Serving as the go-to leader for all technical, people, and organizational matters in CodeSignal Europe.
• Actively participating in hiring for all European employees, conducting both technical and cultural interviews.
• Setting up and managing the legal entity in Yerevan, Armenia.
• Organizing team meetups in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Yerevan.
• Driving CodeSignal’s presence at tech events such as BarCamp, JSConf, and Digitec.

May 2016 – May 2017 · 1 yr

• Managing engineering team
• Leading development projects
• Mentoring and integrating new team members
• Expanding engineering team: conducting technical interviews
• Deciding requirements and technical details of the projects
• Leading, developing and maintaining Infrastructure projects
• Developing internal tools

Apr 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Designing and developing a gamified platform for programming skills assessment.
• Developing secure and fast source code compilation and auto-testing platform
• Optimizing performance of the web app
• Creating Continues Integration (CI) and automatic deployment environment
• Create and maintain internal tools
• Intensively used technologies:
• Node.js
• Docker
• Meteor.JS
• MongoDB
• React.JS
• Rest APIs (e.g. GitHub API, DigitalOcean API)

Jan 2014 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 3 mos

Dec 2011 – Apr 2015 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Designing, developing and testing real-time, low latency order routing applications using various protocols: FIX, NASDAQ OMX OMNet, RTS Plaza2, VOB API.
• Participating in full cycle of development including:
• collecting of software requirements
• project planning and estimation
• high level design
• development, coding and inspections
• integration testing
• certification
• handover and later production support.
• Participated in the exchange connectivity and order routing projects with HKFE, OMX, NordPool, Turquoise, RTS and other world major exchanges and brokerage firms.
• Advanced usage of
• C++ with design patterns
• Boost and STLPort libraries
• Multithreading and Networking
• MSSQL databases

Oct 2010 – Dec 2011 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Developing exchange connectivities for various exchanges and brokerage firms (CME, SGX, DAEWOO, RTS).
• Developing and testing real-time, low latency order routing applications using various protocols: FIX, NASDAQ OMX OMNet, Plaza2.
• Advanced usage of C++, Boost, STLPort, Multithreading, Networking, MSSQL.

Jun 2010 – Oct 2010 · 4 mos

• Maintaining exchange connectivity applications for various exchanges (CME, SGX, OMX, RTS, ... ).
• Advanced usage of C++, Boost, STLPort, Multithreading, Networking.

Sep 2012 – Jul 2020 · 7 yrs 10 mos

• Theoretical and practical course of C++ fundamentals, including:
• Basic programming knowledge
• C++ basic knowledge
• Algorithms and basic data structures
• Standard Template Library (STL) containers and algorithms
• Object oriented programming
• Design patterns
• Advanced data structures

Sep 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 8 mos

• Organizing regular lectures, training, summer/winter schools for RAU programming teams.
• Leading the university teams in quarter/semi-finals of International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC)

Sep 2008 – Jan 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Representing Sun Microsystems in the universities of Yerevan. Organizing various IT and open-source technical meetings. Presenting Sun Microsystems products and features (Open Office, JavaFX, Virtualbox, Opensolaris, MySQL). Supporting and leading open-source projects. Creating and leading an open-source enthusiasts OSUM community in Yerevan.

Sep 2006 – Dec 2007 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Developing cross-platform client/server applications using C++, STL. Developing unit tests and analyzing memory leaks and code coverage (IBM Rational PurifyPlus). Writing high level design (HLD) documentation for projects.