Aug 2018 – Nov 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos · Estonia

• Helping to build financial software for one of the leading broker in the world including:
• Department reorganization from service to product-focused (changing the structure and processes to support Agile development principles, finding the right people, enforcing communication to business, encouraging asking questions and going to technical and business-related conferences for new ideas, organizing Hackathons,…)
• Enforcing security and reliability by involving third-party audits and implementing different types of monitoring including 24*7 SLA
• Encouraging the distributed approach not only in architecture (e.g. switching to micro-services) but also in department setup (several geographical locations)
• Finding and managing outsourcing partners for the best price/performance ratio and IT extension principles
• Handling IT budget, salaries, bonus systems and etc.
• Playing an active part in the R&D process (assuming hands-on development using Java, Python, GoLang and approaches like Machine Learning, messaging queues, Kubernetes and etc.)

Oct 2017 – Aug 2018 · 10 mos · Tallinn, Estonia

• Designing and implementing PoCs using a various set of technologies like Java, AWS (SQS, Lambda, S3,…), Docker, Kubernetes, MySQL, MSSQL, ReactJS, Apache Spark (incl Machine Learning) and etc for global mobility management solution. Implementation Engineering Team leadership and people management. Stuffing and head-hunting. Marketing.

May 2016 – Apr 2017 · 11 mos · Tallinn, Estonia

• Main goals:
• Refactoring of existing structure
• Introduction of Agile techniques in development process
• Transparency in timelines and budget
• Development of the new core platform for Omniva
• As a result:
• Elimination of classical project management approach and focus change from customer position to product ownership
• Introduction of core IT development (hired 2 highly-professional Java development teams in 2 months)
• On pair with extensive support of external partners (including ones from abroad) – around 20 modules in parallel development
• Overall around 200 people included into the project
• Overviews and demos to the wide audience every two weeks
• From an idea to prototype in 2 months, from prototype to fully-functional application in production (used by couriers) in 4 months.
• As everything works smoothly and according to the really challenging plan, my part of the job was successfully accomplished.

Feb 2013 – Apr 2016 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Tallinn, Estonia

• I have started at Kühne+Nagel as System Analyst, but very soon was promoted to Team Leader and later to Team Manager position. By the end of my contract at Kühne+Nagel, I was responsible for several teams (~30 people in total) so they have work to do, they do it good and they know where the company and our department is heading to. This assumes tight cooperation with the business department, in-depth knowledge of the working field from both business and technical perspective, coordination between different levels, teams and units and so on. Moreover, this work has significant administration part like appraisal interviews, salary reviews, firing, hiring and etc.
• Summarizing all said above in one sentence: I was leading several teams of high-level professionals on a way to success and now we are number 1 in the world in Integrated Logistics business.

Mar 2010 – Present · 16 yrs 3 mos · Estonia

• Organizing free workshops and social networking for IT-specialists on a monthly basis: knowledge sharing, new technologies, IT trends, failures, best practices and etc.
• The Russian language oriented community: http://devclub.eu/
• The English: http://devclub.ee/
• It might be you have DevClub already running at your site. Google it! :-)

Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 · 3 yrs · Tallinn, Estonia

• At Helmes I have worked with different clients, both local and international, but the majority of the projects were really and really challenging: to bring an old legacy application to a new level, or finalize project when no people creating that left or making a client satisfied when no money left in the budget. In addition to different technologies I experienced during this period, this gave me valuable knowledge how to make a client happy again using shortest time frame.
• Besides projects, as a Technical Evangelist, I was busy helping developers in professional growth, leading the team, providing architecture, design and estimations for existing and future projects including active participation in negotiations and tenders, internal training and knowledge sharing and etc.

Jun 2009 – Oct 2009 · 4 mos · Tallinn, Estonia

• The main idea of getting into the anti-fraud department at Skype was to apply my higher education and grow as a statistician. Unfortunately, our expectations regarding professional data analysis didn't match, so I decided to go back to development.

Jan 2005 – May 2009 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Tartu-Tallinn, Estonia

• First two years at Webmedia I helped the company to create a solution for the biggest hospital in Estonia using my knowledge in healthcare IT area (technology stack: Java, WebLogic, SQL (Oracle), HTML, CSS, JavaScript).
• Later I switched to the financial sector and led a group of engineers creating loan and scoring applications. As an expert in PL/SQL, I have concentrated on creating business logic, but also did several challenging tasks in Java.
• In 2009 company decided to use my wide knowledge of various technologies and client needs in the sales department, so I have started my career as Presales Consultant. My main task was to understand clients needs both deep and fast and create working prototype within counted days using best-fit approach. Mainly I was focused on business rules and engines which provide customer possibility to change business flow on demand.

Feb 2003 – Dec 2004 · 1 yr 10 mos · Tartu, Estonia

• I have started as Junior Java Developer, but was able to create my first web application really fast and it is still in use in several hospitals across the country. Technology stack: Java, Tomcat, SQL (MSSQL, Sybase), HTML, CSS.