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I am responsible for launching large-scale business initiatives from the tech side, ensuring the stability of our entire service—including customer, driver, merchant, and shopper apps, internal services, and integrations—and managing an international team of over 100 engineers working both remotely and on-site.Key achievements: • Launched a new business vertical for event discovery and ticket sales. My responsibilities extended beyond the role of Engineering Manager to include… Show more I am responsible for launching large-scale business initiatives from the tech side, ensuring the stability of our entire service—including customer, driver, merchant, and shopper apps, internal services, and integrations—and managing an international team of over 100 engineers working both remotely and on-site.Key achievements: • Launched a new business vertical for event discovery and ticket sales. My responsibilities extended beyond the role of Engineering Manager to include business and product management tasks, such as defining the MVP scope and shaping the future roadmap based on business needs and customer feedback. • Implemented a grading system across the tech division, clarifying growth and performance review processes for engineers, team leads, and the HR department. • Organized a series of workshops for tech leads, fostering the growth of 10 tech leads and engineering managers. • Introduced real-time monitoring based on key business metrics (e.g., comparing order volume over the last ‘n’ minutes to the same interval a week prior). • Standardized the hiring process for the tech department, including for lead roles, enabling the hiring of over 20 new team members per month during peak periods, with a 98% probation pass rate overall. Show less

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The focus in H1 2023 was on development optimization and cost-cutting. I implemented several initiatives to achieve these goals, with the most impactful being: • Technical Optimization: I introduced a roadmap for code-sharing between mobile platforms with minimal time investment and no compromise on app ux quality. This process leveraged Kotlin Multiplatform technology, requiring no additional hiring or training since it is native to Android developers. Up to 50% of feature code could… Show more The focus in H1 2023 was on development optimization and cost-cutting. I implemented several initiatives to achieve these goals, with the most impactful being: • Technical Optimization: I introduced a roadmap for code-sharing between mobile platforms with minimal time investment and no compromise on app ux quality. This process leveraged Kotlin Multiplatform technology, requiring no additional hiring or training since it is native to Android developers. Up to 50% of feature code could be written once and shared across both platforms. In the roadmap’s first phase, we successfully implemented a shared networking layer after a successful experiment. The roadmap also includes future improvements, beginning with automatic code generation for portions of feature code based on API descriptions. This enhancement, implemented once for both Android and iOS, is expected to save up to 15% of mobile developer time on each feature. • Organizational Optimization: I proposed and implemented a new tech team structure with optimized roles and responsibilities, streamlining specific roles and creating a more scalable framework to support business growth. When the focus later shifted from optimization to growth, this structure enabled us to scale the team by 3x without any organizational issues. Show less

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I held two roles simultaneously: Android Platform Lead for the customer app and Feature Team Lead.As the Android Platform Lead, I was responsible for development efficiency, hiring and retaining new teammates, and ensuring app stability. As a Feature Team Lead, I was accountable for delivering features on time according to the team backlog.Key achievements: • Streamlined Development Process: Established a feature development workflow across the entire customer app team… Show more I held two roles simultaneously: Android Platform Lead for the customer app and Feature Team Lead.As the Android Platform Lead, I was responsible for development efficiency, hiring and retaining new teammates, and ensuring app stability. As a Feature Team Lead, I was accountable for delivering features on time according to the team backlog.Key achievements: • Streamlined Development Process: Established a feature development workflow across the entire customer app team, which included 30 mobile(native iOS and Android), backend, and QA engineers from five countries across three feature teams. • Consistent Release Cycle: Implemented a stable two-week release cadence for both Android and iOS apps. • Accelerated Time to Market: Reduced feature time-to-market by 30% through a trunk-based development process and on-demand intermediate releases. • Boosted QA Efficiency: Increased testing speed by over 20% with technical enhancements for QA, including app tester integration, a debug panel, and on-device mocks. • Delivered Key Features: Successfully delivered several large features, including live order tracking, cart upsell, and dynamic delivery fees.I also contributed to app coding during periods of understaffing, balancing leadership responsibilities with direct technical work.Given that all my process improvements and most technical improvements were implemented across both mobile platforms, I was officially promoted to Head of Mobile, with the responsibility for both Android and iOS platforms. Show less

Moscow City, Russia

I was responsible for the Citymobil customer app (an application for ordering taxis, scooters, and deliveries, and tracking order status) and led a team of 7-15 developers.My primary responsibilities included team management and system design. I also maintained my coding skills by working on side projects during non-working hours.Key achievements: • Established a junior hiring and onboarding process from scratch. Secured an agreement with VK (formerly Mail.Ru) education… Show more I was responsible for the Citymobil customer app (an application for ordering taxis, scooters, and deliveries, and tracking order status) and led a team of 7-15 developers.My primary responsibilities included team management and system design. I also maintained my coding skills by working on side projects during non-working hours.Key achievements: • Established a junior hiring and onboarding process from scratch. Secured an agreement with VK (formerly Mail.Ru) education projects to promote our company to successful trainees, organized a candidate pipeline from these projects, and filled all required vacancies. • Trained 3 team members to become team leaders. • As an engineering manager, launched an MVP project for ordering self-driving cars with a partner company in one of the Citymobil apps, completing it in less than three weeks. The project’s success led Citymobil to scale it. • Led an internal automation project with various features, including duty management, business and technical metric analysis, and automated app rollouts across platforms. One notable feature was automated regression testing and the rollout of our Android app to multiple stores (Google Play, Huawei App Gallery) based on technical and business metrics. I served as both engineering manager and developer for this project, which yielded a positive ROI in terms of developer time saved.I left the company in March 2022 when investors decided to close it (this decision was later revised, and the company was sold). Show less

Moscow City, Russia

I was responsible for the Citymobil customer app (an application for ordering taxis, scooters, and deliveries, and tracking order status) and for leading a team of 4-7 developers.Key achievements: • Established a grading system for all mobile developers in the company, enhancing growth and performance review processes for engineers, team leads, and the HR department. • Implemented biweekly releases with a rotating release manager system. • Streamlined the hiring process… Show more I was responsible for the Citymobil customer app (an application for ordering taxis, scooters, and deliveries, and tracking order status) and for leading a team of 4-7 developers.Key achievements: • Established a grading system for all mobile developers in the company, enhancing growth and performance review processes for engineers, team leads, and the HR department. • Implemented biweekly releases with a rotating release manager system. • Streamlined the hiring process, reducing the time from first contact to offer by 50% and cutting developer time spent on hiring by 15%, while maintaining quality (all hires successfully completed probation). • Created a technical/infrastructure team for the Citymobil Android app. Core team achievements included implementing a feature toggling system to disable problematic features and continue rollouts instead of spending time for hotfixes, and developing a release automation bot, saving up to 2 hours of release manager time per release. • Added business-oriented stability metrics, enabling the detection of certain incidents up to 10 times faster. • Introduced code style guidelines with automated enforcement, reducing time spent on code reviews. Show less

Moscow City, Russia

Key achievements: • Refactored the app’s payment system and extracted it into a separate module. This enabled automatic toggling of payment methods from the backend and integrated an in-house feature toggle system in case of problems with one of payment methods. It also saved time by allowing the reuse of this module for new business verticals rather than re-implementing it. • Designed and implemented a mobile chat system for customer support and driver communication, allowing… Show more Key achievements: • Refactored the app’s payment system and extracted it into a separate module. This enabled automatic toggling of payment methods from the backend and integrated an in-house feature toggle system in case of problems with one of payment methods. It also saved time by allowing the reuse of this module for new business verticals rather than re-implementing it. • Designed and implemented a mobile chat system for customer support and driver communication, allowing backend automation of support cases without mobile releases, saving hundreds of hours for support agents. • Developed a logging and analytics system to replace a costly proprietary solution, which was later adopted by other company projects and remained in use as of 2022, saving over $100,000 annually. • Created a monitoring and alerting system to detect errors on mobile devices that were not visible on the backend, allowing API contract violations to be identified within minutes instead of within hours through customer feedback. This system was also reused in other projects and remained operational at least until 2022. • Initiated the transition from a single-module to a multi-module project structure, continuing to implement this strategy when I took responsibility for the entire project. As a result, build times were reduced by up to 50%, depending on the modified modules.Since June 2019, I have held a dual role as a developer and feature team leaded, with an 80:20 split between development and leadership responsibilities. My role includes collaborating with business stakeholders to define tasks and deadlines and optimizing team processes. Show less

Moscow City, Russia

I was responsible for the complete technical implementation and communication with customer representatives. Key projects include: • Qach: A gamified restaurant marketing project. At random intervals, a restaurant can offer items (e.g., 20 free burgers—one per person). The service sends notifications, allowing customers to ‘catch’ these items. Once a customer claims an item, they receive a limited-lifetime QR code. To redeem it, the customer shows the QR code to a waiter, who verifies… Show more I was responsible for the complete technical implementation and communication with customer representatives. Key projects include: • Qach: A gamified restaurant marketing project. At random intervals, a restaurant can offer items (e.g., 20 free burgers—one per person). The service sends notifications, allowing customers to ‘catch’ these items. Once a customer claims an item, they receive a limited-lifetime QR code. To redeem it, the customer shows the QR code to a waiter, who verifies it with their app before providing the item. I led a team of two backend developers and one iOS developer, while also serving as the Android developer. The project was designed and developed from scratch. • Azent: A hotel booking service for a customer from India. I led a team of backend and frontend developers and assisted in designing the service architecture. • Mazerooms: A US-based escape room booking service. Initially reliant on a paid, proprietary booking system, our team developed an in-house booking system and successfully migrated data from the original system. Show less

Moscow City, Russia

I developed 2 projects from scratch: • MVP for a Transport Aggregator: Designed and built from the ground up. Key features included selecting addresses on a map or via server suggestions, displaying various routes between locations using different types of transport and providers, and directing users to the provider app to complete their booking. The project involved extensive work with animations and the drag-and-drop API. The service was ultimately not published due to an investor… Show more I developed 2 projects from scratch: • MVP for a Transport Aggregator: Designed and built from the ground up. Key features included selecting addresses on a map or via server suggestions, displaying various routes between locations using different types of transport and providers, and directing users to the provider app to complete their booking. The project involved extensive work with animations and the drag-and-drop API. The service was ultimately not published due to an investor decision. • Foodberry - Restaurant Aggregator: A full-featured app for browsing restaurants, viewing them on a map, applying filters, booking tables, ordering food, and tracking order status. Although the app was published, the service was later discontinued, and the app was removed from stores due to an investor decision. Show less

Moscow City, Russia

I developed a mobile application for an air ticket booking service from scratch.During development, I proposed an API optimization that reduced the time to display the initial search results from 1 minute to 10-15 seconds.

Moscow City, Russia

I was responsible for API documentation, SDKs, and examples for multiple platforms, including Android, iOS, backend-to-backend, and JavaScript.

Master'S Degree, Computer Systems Networking And Telecommunications

System Architect, Web Applications Architecture

Two years education program from VK (ex Mail.Ru Group) on designing, developing and maintaining high load web applications including parts.