Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Helping the Gen AI startup with technology

Mar 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 💡 Providing custom training on Web Development, DevOps, Kubernetes, Azure, and GCP.
• I teach teamwork-related things like Git and DevOps as well as Web Development, mostly JavaScript, React.js, and Node, conducting courses both on-premises and online. Apart from this, I conduct Microsoft official courses as a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT), specifically on Azure and software development related (AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-204, AZ-220, AZ-303, AZ-304, AZ-305, AZ-400, AZ-500, AI-900, AI-100, 10975, 20480, 20486, 20483). I also teach classes on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and GitHub official courses.
• ✔ MCT (10 years),
• ✔ GCP Authorized Trainer (one of about 600 in the World),
• ✔ GitHub Accredited Trainer (one of a few hundred in the World and one of the first in the program).
• https://www.sdk.services/

Nov 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Helped migrate a Nancy Framework-based ASP.NET Gift Card application to a new platform.
• Represented the "business" side in a "business divorce";
• Maintained good working relationship with the leaving "tech" side;
• Hands-on: set up traffic mirroring and DB reconciliation to make sure that the new platform operates correctly;
• Hands-on: performed Azure cloud migration of the entire product;
• Communicated with all the team and other involved parties, coached other devs, and aligned the stakeholders.

Mar 2020 – May 2025 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• 👨‍💻 A Fractional CTO who codes. I both organize reliable cost-efficient software development and solve technical problems saving immense amounts of time & money. As I'm also good with infrastructure, I'm capable of replacing 4 high-paid tech roles ad hoc: Manager/Product Owner, Team Lead, Dev, and DevOps/Infra Engineer.
• I specialize in these technologies:
• ✔️ .NET / MS Stack;
• ✔️ JavaScript / React.js;
• ✔️ Cloud / DevOps / Azure / Google Cloud Platform.
• But really... having 20 years of development under my belt, I used it all: Python, Ruby, PHP, PowerShell, C++, etc, and if I didn't I might be able to just start using it in a day. If anything above looks relevant, you can borrow my expertise to make a difference on your project.
• 📌 My direct & indirect clients include dozens of companies, including 2 FAAMG names and a three-letter company starting with "I".
• https://www.redpill.solutions

Jul 2016 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Remote

• Doing regular audits and consulting. It's not a secret that overseas teams often bill 3x-10x of what they actually do.
• I did
• regular comprehensive development audits with reports;
• advising on how to structure work;
• consulting on setting up the development management and infrastructure to protect the intellectual property and the product;
• making an overseas team actually do what they bill for;
• providing an independent code quality and real effort spent perspective.

Dec 2015 – Sep 2016 · 9 mos · Remote

• Making a Quora-like platform go online as a tech leader - done.
• The client had a problem with the tech team not willing to release.
• Set up development & management processes, including work planning, tracking and status meetings;
• Managed backlog to make the release possible;
• Hired for the necessary roles;
• Managed a global team of 5;
• Performed high-demanding tasks like internationalizing the entire application in 2 days.

Dec 2014 – Dec 2024 · 10 yrs

• Doing Fractional CTO and Developer projects on Upwork
• ✔ 100% job success with 15 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reviews
• ✔ Doing team management, software audits, coding
• ✔ Finding right candidates, hiring
• 🍁 Upwork Canada Group Lead [Oct 2022-Dec 2024]

May 2014 – Nov 2019 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Upskilling a global software outsourcer personell in software development & DevOps.
• The list of courses I conducted and/or authored:
• 💻 .NET
• ASP.NET MVC 5 basics (author)
• Dependency Management in .NET
• Asynchronous Future in .NET Framework
• Design by Contract in .NET
• C# Tips and Tricks
• 💻 JavaScript and Web Development
• JavaScript Development
• EcmaScript 2015
• React.js development (more than 1000 students overall)
• Web Application Testing
• OWASP Top Ten Vulnerabilities
• 💻 Team work & DevOps
• Team work with Git (author)
• Continuous integration and DevOps for Developers (author)
• Introduction to git
• DevOps basics

Nov 2013 – Nov 2019 · 6 yrs

• Custom software development - intranet and internet sites.
• ✔ Full-cycle software development including producing requirements
• ✔ Mobilizing teams on a per-project basis (e.g. designers, analysts, testers)
• ✔ ~20 clients
• ✔ ~30 projects

Jun 2011 – Nov 2013 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Moscow

• 🦸‍♂️ Dev head in a Microsoft subcontractor.
• ✔ Led around 20 projects to completion, including ones used by hundreds of thousands of users;
• ✔ Managed team of 10, both in-house and remote;
• ✔ Handled 3-7 projects simultaneously.
• Technology responsibilities:
• Technical leadership;
• Design and development of skeletal solutions' parts;
• General web development.
• Management:
• Setting up dev process;
• Managing team competencies and development;
• Resource management (hiring etc);
• Capacity planning;
• Presales, including preparing estimates for dozens of projects;
• Owning financials.

Feb 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Developing corporate intranet & internet sites.

Sep 2004 – Jan 2010 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Working in different positions. Mostly C#/.NET software development with some Delphi, JS, and PHP.