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Berlin, Germany

Building and shipping Mercedes-Benz mobile app & Mobile Bluetooth SDK for 5M+ MAU

Berlin, Germany

Minsk, Belarus

- Initiated transition from software engineer to product owner role by spearheading the development of a complex new Electronic Horizon feature within a broader Navigation SDK.- Collaborated with stakeholders and other cross-functional teams, shaping requirements and dependencies. Iterated on the design document, architecture and crafted the MVP.- Played a pivotal role in Mapbox’s partnership with BMW, where the electronic horizon emerged as a highly anticipated and innovative feature. Successfully contributed to its evolution to a self-sufficient product, strengthening market impact and value.

Minsk, Belarus

- Developed backup and restore features within cloud SaaS product, resulting in a successful market launch and 20% month-over-month revenue growth.- Mentored engineers in Git best practices and BitBucket adoption during Gerrit migration affecting 10 teams. Drove new Git workflow establishment, fostering transparent processes, streamlined code reviews, and enhanced dev experience.- Won internal hackathon with an MVP empowering support and engineering to securely debug customer's issues. Spearheaded production release, reducing investigation time from 10 to 2 hours and promptly addressing 2 longstanding bugs.

Minsk, Belarus

- Eliminated overlap between alive and dead tank models in WoT Blitz. Reduced memory usage by 15% and space usage by 6% in the production build, optimizing the player experience.- Integrated Subversion into WoT Blitz on iOS, macOS, Windows, slashing fresh build deployment time from 1.5 hours to 5 minutes through efficient build updates. Achieved a significant boost in testing and development speed.- Introduced an in-house CI/CD framework automating development processes across 10+ cross-functional teams. Increased release cadence by several days and facilitated the implementation of bi-weekly hack days across all teams, capitalizing on the time savings.

Minsk, Belarus

- Developed cross-platform peer-to-peer file sync utilizing BitTorrent protocol. Provided hands-on technical support to support team and customers as a C++ engineer.- Introduced a service for uploading extra-large artifacts (logs, videos), serving 10k monthly users. Improved support satisfaction by 10% and increased resolved customer cases by 10% over 6 months due to broader investigations.- Replaced clumsy and unreliable help request mechanism with a multi-layered innovative solution, achieving 100% help requests reachability.- Built in-house monitoring service (predecessor of Statuspage and Zabbix) with almost no-code checks builder, complex checks and rich notifications. Led to nearly 10x faster incident response time.

Business Administration And Management, General

Product Management, Product Strategy, Growth, Analytics, Engineering Management

Master'S Degree, Information Technology

Master's Thesis: CI/CD Automation Framework

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science