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Moscow, Ru

Moscow, Russia

Working on the project whose goal is to design and develop a security data lake from scratch and make it an integral part of the evolving foundational technology platform for the product portfolio of Kaspersky.• Created a technical strategy and roadmap of security data lake development • Designed and implemented workflows and processes for creating ClickHouse builds fulfilling the requirements of Secure Development Lifecycle at Kaspersky• Delivered ClickHouse with security fixes to Kaspersky XDR and SIEM product releases

Moscow, Russia

The Promotions Committee is a team of technical and HR professionals who manage the promotion process of developers to senior developer positions in Kaspersky.• Proposed a process of appeals to the general promotions process• Mentored candidates' managers • Reviewed and rated candidates for promotion (5-10% of all nomination packages)

Moscow, Russia

Managed planning, design and development of 4 B2B products, which during my tenure progressed to generating 4% of the company's annual revenue. Products provided cyber security solutions for endpoint protection, email protection, integrations with 3rd party security software for Managed Service Providers, and were delivered to customers as cloud services, on-premises installations, and hybrid scenarios.I was responsible for:• Program and project releases.• Planning roadmaps with product management team.• Coordination of 9 project teams from 4 business units, 200+ of engineers in total.• Managing 3 projects of program directly, with 3 managers reported to me and their development and test teams consisting of over 25 engineers.• Driving architectural and technical decisions.• Ensuring legal, financial, and information security compliance.• Managing resolution of critical incidents in cloud production.We delivered:• 12 major releases with new features and fixes.• 3 releases with marketing campaigns which introduced our clients Patch Management, Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Extended Detection and Response (EDR), CASB and new license tiers.• Regular UX and performance improvements.• Improved security of clients authorization process for sensitive operations on production.Which resulted in the 3-year CAGR in the following indicators:• Revenue: 28%.• Number of clients: 71%.• Devices under protection: 34% (more than 1M devices).• Infrastructure: 46%.

Managed planning and development of web console for Kaspersky Endpoint Security Cloud (SaaS). Console is a single-page application with multi-tiered architecture, written on Node.js/C++/Redis/Apache Server, and deployed in multiple Azure regions.I was responsible for:• Project releases.• Managing frontend and backend developers.• Hiring new team members.• Coordination of cross-functional teams.• Supervising architectural and technical decisions.• Delivering releases on production servers.• Resolution of critical incidents in production.Our results:• 20 major releases.• Adopted Trunk-Based Development.• Automated provisioning of a production-like environment for development teams.• Redesigned architecture.• Reduced technical debt and improved performance. • Optimized operations on production servers to enhance the process of working on issues reported by clients.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Invention Development Team is a team of technical leaders, subject matter experts, and Master Inventors from IBM Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) region. Team reviews ideas for patents and decides on eligibility for filing patent applications from IBM to USPTO.• Reviewed submitted ideas for patents. • Organized and led technical discussion sessions between IDT and authors.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

IBM Technical Leadership Exchange is the international technical conference attended by up to 200 technical experts from IBM. The Steering Committee is a team of recognized technical leaders and executives of IBM.• Defined conference agendas with other members.• Reviewed and rated submitted abstracts from candidate speakers.• Mentored award-winning speakers.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Technical consultancy for senior executive management of IBM.• Contribution to studies and publications on software development processes, infrastructure management, and global technology outlook.• Technical and career mentorship.Elected member of IBM Academy of Technology by nomination of senior managers and technical executives from IBM Russia, Switzerland, and US.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Worked as a developer and architect of IBM Cloud Workload Analysis, which is a cloud service for sales and pre-sales specialists providing means for choosing a cost-effective cloud provider based on customer infrastructure architecture.Written on Node.js, uses Apache Spark, and Apache Kafka for data processing, DBaaS with virtual servers of IBM Cloud.• Developed new features.• Streamlined the development process with Agile practices.• Redesigned the deployment architecture for using Docker.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Worked as a developer and development team-lead of IBM Channel Diagnostics Tool (CDT) application written on Java/C++ with distributed multi-tiered architecture, which provides tools for diagnostics of mainframe network and storage hardware. CDT is packaged in every IBM Mainframe, is an indispensable utility for mainframe manufacturing teams at IBM and in client environments.Our team delivered CDT for three consecutive releases of new mainframe machines: IBM z/Enterprise z12, z13 and z14. • Appointed to code-owner.• Added support of new hardware: FICON, Flash, Infiniband and the others.• Added command-line interface.• Adopted Test Driven Development and significantly reduced the number of bugs in production.• Managed the full code rewrite of the application without affecting project plans and compromising code quality.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

I founded the IBM Technical Excellence Council (TEC) in Russia/CIS and had been elected chair for two consecutive terms (4 years). TEC is a kind of regional technical community in IBM with a mission to consolidate technical leaders and serve as an expertise center for business.• Created mission, charter, and by-laws.• Established a vibrant community of developers, architects, and other technical professions from IBM Russia/CIS.• Organized and led roundtables with technical executive leaders from across the IBM on topics including cutting-edge technologies, innovation, inventions, and others.• Achieved the status of an official affiliate of IBM Academy of Technology (AoT) in Russia.• 4 members were accepted into IBM Academy of Technology.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

I co-founded and co-led the first official user group of IBM Rational in Russia to help business build ecosystem around IBM Rational technologies and products.• Invited subject matter experts from IBM.• Organized a series of workshops with customers and business-partners.• Created and managed the community's social media resources on the Internet.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Worked as a developer of IBMz/OS DFSMS (mainframe filesystem) and contributed code to z/OS 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12 releases.• Added support for SCSI to low-level DFSMS tools.• Fixed bugs and customer issues.• Drove the modernization of the development environment which helped improve the team's developer productivity.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

• Developed new features and maintained code in production.• Designed and created a system that automated product testing, which saved company budget by eliminating the need for purchasing commercial software and hiring manual testers.• Managed test system deployment, ran pre-release tests, and was responsible for quality assurance.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

• Designed and created AI based on finite-state machines and fuzzy logic.• Designed and created sound API that supported multiple hardware vendors.