Result-oriented Engineering Manager with 19+ years of experience. Excel in building offshore and onsite teams, deep practical knowledge in leadership and motivation. Extensive experience in R&D, Product Development, Engineering, QC, and a full delivery cycle.

Professional Experience

Corva (2021 November - present)

Director of Engineering

  • Leading engineering team including(QA, FE, BE, DevOps) departments.
  • Form the team during the rapid growth phase
  • Grow engineering leads and form the team structure
  • Manage and mentor Engineering Managers with help to form goals for them and their teams.
  • Help guide the product ideas and manage the roadmap.
  • Constant help with overseeing the architecture and stability/security of the system.

Playtika (2020 July - 2021 October) Kyiv, Ukraine

R&D Engineering Manager

  • Leading multiple teams of talented Engineers that are working with https://www.slotomania.com/ and other products of the Playtika.
  • As a leader I always try to empower and support my co-workers, to help them grow and develop, and to make sure they have fun everyday.
  • With a big focus on building and creating a great, open-minded, respectful and warm culture, where we can work together towards common goals.
  • I believe in management by example & servant leadership. I work with empathy and curiosity as my most important tools.

Exabeam (2019 July - 2020 June) Kyiv, Ukraine

Engineering Manager, Data Lake Infrastructure and Application

  • Responsible for the personal development and regular feedback for a team of 12 engineers
  • Strive to promote and implement engineering best practices within the team & tiebreak technical discussions
  • Building and leading engineering team, through recruitment, personal growth, development
  • Build and support with the team Data Lake application

Cloverpop (2017 Jan - 2019 June) Kyiv/San Francisco

Engineering Manager

  • Leading company development process up to 35 engineers in 3 locations
  • Building and leading engineering team, through recruitment, personal growth, development, and coaching
  • Identifying, scoping, and delivering large end-to-end features
  • Managing day to day engineering operations
  • Ensuring engineering and operations teams are working closely and collaboratively as one team on behalf of the product
  • Build the Continuous Delivery process for the team with continuous deployment, review process
  • Lead the migration to ES6/React
  • Created the program to switch the team to use React and mentor the process
  • Switch the team to using TDD with RSpec & Jest

Decorist (2014 December - 2016 December) San Francisco/Kyiv

Head of Engineering

  • Leading company development process. decorist.com, lowes.decorist.com, designwithlowes.com
  • Hiring development team from the first person, growing the size of the team form 1 to 45 people
  • Building and leading engineering team, through recruitment, development, and coaching
  • Driving the innovation, development, and implementation of software infrastructure
  • Managing day to day engineering operations, deliverables, and priorities
  • Developing best practices and software architecture
  • Ensuring engineering and operations teams are working closely and collaboratively as one team
  • We build couple modular applications with Python, Django, a bunch of microservices using Node, React, Angular
  • Delivering projects in multi-stakeholder environments

Cloverpop (2013 Jan - 2014 December) Kyiv, Ukraine

Software Engineer

  • Full stack web developer worked with RoR and JS on Front End
  • Implement features from design to delivering to customers

R&R Music Ltd (2012 January - 2012 October) Kyiv, Ukraine

Software Engineer

  • Developing features in an agile environment using Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Managing code with unit tests and GitHub

Tuto (2008 September - 2011 December) Kyiv, Ukraine

Head of Information Technology department

  • Built automation system for company from scratch
  • Create and lead the IT department

Periodica (2004 September - 2008 August) Kyiv, Ukraine

Information Technology Engineer

  • Building and leading team, through recruitment, development, and coaching
  • Preparing tender documentation for biggest national libraries and government organizations

Education

National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2002 - 2006 Bachelor’s degree in Psychology

National Pedagogical University, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2006 - 2007 Specialist degree in Apply Psychology

Preparation for PMP exam (May - July 2016) Spider, Kyiv, Ukraine

Projects

Founder @ kottans.org (volunteer project)