Jan 2023 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Contributed significantly to the acquisition of Alyce on February 1st by participating in the due diligence process and supporting transition activities, facilitating a smooth integration for all parties involved.
• Led Engineering and Data Science departments, reporting directly to the CEO.
• Hired and onboarded 3 multifunctional teams from scratch in 2 months improving engineering velocity
• Budget management - saved $380k annually by optimizing infrastructure and smarter management of various 3rd party SaaS contracts
• Implemented engineering metrics that are that clearly identified areas for improvement
• Implemented and improved various engineering processes to be SOC2 type 2 compliant
• Implemented security and compliance best practices reducing our surface area of attack
• Worked with heads of other departments (Product, Legal, Marketing, Support, Finance) on behalf of Engineering
• Helped Sales team to close deals finalizing customer questionnaires

Mar 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Led up to 4 development teams (2 internal + 2 external)
• Set Quarter Smart Goals for Engineering and making sure they are completed
• 3rd-party vendors negotiations and assessment
• Implemented access management process
• Improved onboarding/offboarding procedures
• Hired and onboarded 2 external teams to improve engineering velocity
• Implemented instant releases process (deliver to production every day with no downtime independently)

Sep 2019 – Feb 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Led cross-functional development team that is responsible for a certain part of the product;
• Formation and prioritization of the technical backlog of the team;
• Responsible of architecture of some modules since I developed them;
• Product roadmap and release planning;
• Helped succeeding sprints as a backend engineer;
• Worked with the team to improve internal processes of the company;

Oct 2018 – Sep 2019 · 11 mos

• Main responsibilities:
• Formation and prioritization of the technical backlog of the team;
• Responsible of architecture of some modules since I developed them;
• Intense experience with SCRUM, helped transfer entire company to new workflow;
• Product roadmap and release planning;
• Coordination of development teams as part of the implementation of major technical tasks;
• Working with the team to improve internal processes of the company;

Sep 2016 – Oct 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Leading 2 (out of 5) cross functional teams of developers and QA testers;
• Code Review, I require following PSR, latest PHP7 features, SOLID principles, common sense;
• Project management experience, releases planning;
• Troubleshooting enterprise customers (offline/zoom calls/psychic abilities);
• Responsible for team members growth.

Mar 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Developed own framework using modern technologies and patterns.
• Integrated with AWS, GCP multiple new services and support of existing ones;
• Added OpenStack based platforms support and developed new features;
• Implemented Cost Analytics, analyzing and aggregating data;
• Implemented Audit Log for tracking and logging user activity;
• Implemented ZMQ service as a message broker;
• Extensive experience in working with databases, indexes, transactions, migrations, solving multi-threading and multi-access issues, mutex etc;
• Developed project RESTful API from scratch;
• Improved ACL and other enterprise features;
• Added full Azure support from scratch since rest APIv2 beta (that was hell);
• Added full VMware support from scratch using SOAP and latest REST apis;
• Refactored legacy code and approaches, writing tests using phpunit.

Apr 2013 – Feb 2014 · 10 mos · Sevastopol

• Worked on a project using Codeigniter, JQuery, CasperJs, Mysql that requires extensive knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Googleplus, Tumblr API.
• Version control: Subversion, Mercurial.

Nov 2012 – Mar 2013 · 4 mos · Sevastopol

• Development, installation of modules on Sugarcrm.
• Main responsibility: Sugarcrm and Asterisk integration.