Started as a consultant but became the full-time CTO in just two months to conduct the search for a new CTO.

The company had grown to thousands of employees; however, the Tech department continued to operate like a small outsourcing company it once was. I restructured the department and improved its interactions with the rest of the company.

Results: built a strong leadership team, transformed technology-oriented teams into cross-functional ones, implemented a business-transparent planning process, organized and simplified budget management. Technical accomplishments: reduced database load, isolated internal infrastructure & services from the internet, initiated migration from GitHub to self-hosted GitLab. Eliminated idleness & toxicity through significant reorganization, while replacing only 1/5 of the existing team.

Tech Department Headcount: ~80 people

CEO: Dmitry Danilov. The winner of “30 under 30” by Forbes.

This is a non-exhaustive list of the most interesting cases:

DevOps Team Lead at IT consulting company - I came up with a strategy making Microsoft SQL on-prem to cloud migration possible. Multiple Terabytes DB, a limited upload channel and just an hour of downtime.

Engineer at CERN - helped to organize collaborative development of a FPGA project through git.

Built upon my success as a Platform Owner to optimize our development department’s operations. Got into a role when almost whole core development team left.

• Managed Development department of over 50 people: 2 Product teams, QA, Python, Node & Core FrontEnd teams
• Drastically improved observability - by unifying developer experience in Grafana Cloud for logs, metrics, alerts & traces and teaching teams how to use them
• Successfully launched a new product that was postponed several times before me
• Hired many excellent developers and a Head of Development (my successor)
• Reduced amount of incidents by:
  • Initiated migration of front-end and middleware from JavaScript to TypeScript
  • Created a new domain-specific team to separate interactions with Steam from the main business logic

CEO: Pavel Dunaev. A nominee of “30 under 30” by Forbes.

• Transformed an overburdened couple of operations engineers into a happy, self-sufficient, and growing team, Platform Team.
• Defined a vision for the platform and created a migration plan for all the development teams
• Established effective communication channels and practices
• Transitioned from weekly night meetings to figure out why production is down into rare incidents
• Defined infrastructure as Code using Pulumi
• Clarified & unified deployment (GitLab CI + Pulumi) and monitoring practices

Resolved numerous k8s clusters and mesh network issues and championed documentation by indexing and improving existing resources.

• Integrated the documentation into the Software Development Lifecycle and streamlined the onboarding process for new team members
• Worked closely with the QA department to make sure that the clusters we were deploying and maintaining were compliant
• Lead an internal effort to move GitLab project configuration management to an “as Code” solution

Responsible for the whole Software Development Life Circle of multiple products in Industrial Systems for Streaming Data Processing Laboratory. From pre-sales communication with customers to the launch and maintenance.

• Managed a DevOps team and 3 Development teams
• Selected, purchased hardware and software and maintained on-prem, edge and cloud infrastructure

Lead development of:

• Rust Linux kernel module for custom in-memory DB & transport layer network protocol - delivered MVP in less than a month
• 3 cloud-native applications for AWS
• Everything in between: Flutter mobile application, Python desktop applications, Video Processing with OpenCV, ML with TensorFlow for Nvidia DGX01 and Jetson

Developing Software for radio signal processing and visualization in C++ and QT.

• Built the process of development and interaction with the customer as a scrum master
• Set up and maintained Jenkins based CI/CD
• Introduced Doxygen to the project and taught colleagues how to use it

Nvidia DGX usage in Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University

Data storage monitoring for failure prediction

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