Sergey S.

Director of Engineering

Valencia, Valencian Community, Spain20 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led remote team growth from 2 to 10 engineers.
Achieved $50,000 monthly savings through infrastructure optimization.
Automated data center deployments, improving efficiency significantly.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Infrastructure expert with strong leadership and automation skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

LeadershipEngineering ManagementCloud ComputingCost ManagementDevopsEngineering LeadershipAutomationVirtualizationBusiness ContinuityInfrastructure ManagementIncident ManagementSystem Deployment

Other Skills

AWSActive DirectoryAgileAmazon Web Services (AWS)Analytical SkillsAnsibleAnti-Money LaunderingCisco UCSCoachingCode ReviewCollaborative LeadershipContinuous DeliveryContinuous IntegrationCross-functional Team LeadershipData Center

About

I am a highly motivated leader with over 20 years of experience, the last 5 of which I have grown the remote team from 2 to 10 engineers and managed it by interviewing candidates, onboarding, mentoring, and helping with their career development. Leveraging Agile and Scrum methodologies and DevOps best practices to meet clients’ expectations. Focused on business continuity and lowering TCO by building solutions that will run 24x7 on a worldwide scale with no downtime.

Experience

20 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 4 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Republic bank

Engineering Manager

Aug 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 10 mos · European Union · Remote

Fostered strong working relationships with stakeholders across various departments, ensuring seamless communication and alignment on technical initiatives.
Grew the engineering team's capacity to support a 5X increase in applications while maintaining a lean and efficient structure, demonstrating effective team management and technical leadership.
Conducted comprehensive technical interviews for DevOps Engineers and Engineering Managers, evaluating candidates' skills, experience, and problem-solving abilities to identify top talent.
Successfully optimized our infrastructure to reduce costs and improve efficiency, resulting in monthly savings of $50,000.

Key Performance IndicatorsHigh AvailabilityKanbanFinTechLeadershipCode Review+41

Cisco systems

DevOps Lead

Aug 2013 – Jul 2021 · 7 yrs 11 mos · Dnipro, Ukraine · Remote

Performed interviews, onboarding, performance reviews, and 1-2-1 meetings, which allowed me to build a team of true DevOps professionals, providing infrastructure support 24x7.
Tracked team performance and built reports slicing data per engineer, ticket type, priority, time-to-response, etc., and their combinations to improve team velocity by 25% and meet SLAs.
Helped the team automate data center deployments with Ansible, achieving a 4x speedup in configuration time, enabling deployment of up to 2 data centers per week.
Supported the development and scaling of a secure tunnel network from 10 VMs to 2500 across the globe, providing comprehensive testing and documentation.
Optimized VM memory usage by removing unnecessary reservations, increasing the ability to host 60% more VMs on the same hardware (2000 servers across 25 data centers).
Led the in-house automation of data center deployments, slashing deployment time by 85%, upgrade time by 93%, and significantly improving security patch application.

Key Performance IndicatorsHigh AvailabilityKanbanLeadershipCode ReviewBusiness Continuity+64

Credit suisse

Senior System Architect

Mar 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Zürich, Switzerland · On-site

Led platform upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to 2012 to virtualize servers and be able to perform any firmware upgrade or hardware maintenance with no downtime, which previously took 6 hours to complete.
Redesigned storage/backup solution allowing users to store almost unlimited copies of documents or restore them from the 10 years old backup, instead of having a 7-days retention policy configured before.

High AvailabilityFinTechLeadershipBusiness ContinuitySecurityCost Management+35

Barclays capital

Windows Support Engineer

Sep 2010 – Feb 2012 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kyiv, Ukraine · On-site

Automated daily tasks using PowerShell, decreasing the average number of open tickets by 80% (from 150 to 30), thus improving team response time by saving on average about 4h/day per engineer.
Improved English level as well as time, priority, and change management skills which is a must in order to support a huge 25000+ servers environment.

High AvailabilityFinTechBusiness ContinuitySecurityWorkload PrioritizationPerformance Management+16

Allo

System Engineer

Mar 2007 – Aug 2010 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Dnipro, Ukraine · On-site

Standardized OS and software deployment and patching using Microsoft System Center in HQ and all 400 branch offices, decreasing support time by 70%.
Led email and encryption system migration from Exchange 2000 to Exchange 2007 + Forefront Identity Manager 2007, which allowed to keep access to old encrypted emails and provided better certificate users’ self-management as well as stay on a vendor-supported version.

High AvailabilityBusiness ContinuitySecurityStartupsWorkload PrioritizationVirtualization+13

Foxtrot

System Administrator

Sep 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 5 mos · Dnipro, Ukraine · On-site

Started as a sysadmin supporting one branch office and 2 shops and grew up to 4 branch offices and 15 shops in the region.
Deployed Internet access proxy/caching/filtering/reporting system to prevent downloading infected files and visiting inappropriate sites.

High AvailabilityBusiness ContinuitySecurityStartupsWorkload PrioritizationVirtualization+12