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)