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Palo Alto, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Shoreline, WA, US

I established and organized the inaugural industry-wide conference for TPMs - the TPM Summit. It attracted over 500 attendees. The event featured speakers and participants from across the tech industry, including Amazon, Google, GitHub, Instacart, Uber, and DoorDash, as well as authors of books related to Technical Program Management. www.TPMSummit.org

Menlo Park, California, US

Lead a team of TPMs in Core infra, Data infra, Reliability, and Developer Experience

Menlo Park, California, US

Menlo Park, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

TPM in Uber's Big Data Platform working with the teams across multiple open source stacks - Hadoop (HDFS, YARN, Hive, Presto) stack, Kafka stack, Vertica, and others. Major programs: Data Platform Cost Efficiency, Containerizing Apache Hadoop Infra, Data Platform Reliability.

Ran in the night, chased the one.

Seattle, WA, US

Led the team of Operations and System Development engineers to scale the infrastructure for Amazon Elasticsearch and Amazon CloudSearch services.

Seattle, WA, US

Managed Amazon Elasticsearch launch in 10+ AWS regions including special regions like GovCloud, China, and The Top Secret region.

Seattle, WA, US

TPM for two search services provided by AWS:Amazon Elasticsearch Service is a managed service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale Elasticsearch in the AWS Cloud. Elasticsearch is a popular open-source search and analytics engine for use cases such as log analytics, real-time application monitoring, and click stream analytics..

Palo Alto, CA, US

Amazon Search Product Management. If you've done a search on Amazon, you've used theAmazon Search engine developed in A9.Managed search product development related to new business categories launches – Amazon Home Services, Amazon Handmade Store, Amazon Fresh and others.

Palo Alto, California, US

• Startup Grind is one of the largest high-tech startup communities in the world to help educate, inspire, and connect 2,000,000 entrepreneurs in 600 cities around 125 countries.
• Launched a minimum viable product (MVP) of a web application for facilitating mentorship within the community.
• Gathered feedback from community members and mentors, defined MVP roadmap, and wrote user stories.
• Developed back-end and front-end functionality.
• Co-organized local chapter event in Almaty, Kazakhstan featuring Steven Wolfram, founder of Wolfram Alpha

Moscow, RU

• Determined country-specific product requirements for Yandex‘s services in Kazakhstan, based on analysis of local usage and market research.
• Defined minimum viable localization features sensible for local users in cooperation with engineers to ensure efficient allocation of engineering resources and timely delivery.
• Initiated and coordinated remodeling of Kazakh linguistic structure in web search algorithms, constructed grammar models and diacritic conversion rules.
• Established relationships with content and business partners. Managed full chain of communications: partnership proposal, negotiations, signing agreements and technical connection.
• Initiated and launched (owned) country specific projects.
• Represented Yandex in Kazakhstan, including public and government relationships.

• Managed relationships with sponsors (Microsoft, Opera Soft., Nokia, Yandex, etc.) and guest companies (Google).
• Developed and reported upon budget to sponsors.
• Coordinated the 3-day conference with more than 1500 participants.

• News portal with own editorial staff, photo hosting and video hosting.
• Directed development of three Internet projects in Kazakhstan: operational management, budgeting and planning.
• Formed the team of project managers, sales managers and editors (22 employees).
• Built business processes within the company and managed outsourcing design and development.

• Co-founded web development studio and lead team of 8 web developers.
• Developed proprietary CMS, deployed to dozen of customers.
• Developed enterprise management software to customers (intranet document flow; online library catalog).
• Developed educational projects for Ministry of Education and various universities: distance learning system, online testing for high-schooler based on national, mandatory testing.
• Managed customer relationships.

Master Of Science, Computer Engineering

Engineer, Automation Control