Strategic thinker and technology leader with a strong business focus and an entrepreneurial spirit. 18 years of experience in Internet technology industry, 14 years of managing high-performant distributed teams through innovation, operational excellence, and collaboration.Highly passionate about enriching the core value proposition of an organization by building amazing distributed diverse agile teams, experimental and iterative processes, continuous innovation that enables creating products of excellence.I lead by example, strive to nurture a growth mindset, open-minded, transparent culture, and a safe environment.• Contributed to creating the world’s largest online work marketplace Upwork. • Humbled to impact in a positive way the lives of millions of freelancers: Upwork surpassed $20 billion in lifetime freelancer earnings, which doubled from $10 billion in only three years.• 10+ years of experience leading teams spanning multiple verticals in product and platform engineering organizations.• Created and scaled globally distributed diverse teams (from a few to 50+ members).• Proven record building large-scale, mission-critical, distributed systems.• Expertise and exposure to full-stack technology• Proven ability to work in fast-paced, agile environments and drive the parallel development and delivery of multiple products.
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Director Of EngineeringUpwork Mar 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, California, UsMay 2022 - presentPayments Business Unit, Work Management Platform• Led platform's Frontend and Backend rebuild foundations to the modern cloud- and microservice-based technical stack• Adopt a “service-first” mindset with the goal to enable other teams to win by building fastIMPACT• Scaled the org 2x over a few months • Remediated long-lasting quality, productivity, operational and morale issuesDec 2020 - May 2022New & Emerging Businesses• Led engineering teams to build new product offerings from 0 to 1• Played the role of interim Product Manager responsible for "Project Catalog" search capabilities• Contributing to adopting a growth mindset and startup engineering culture within an established public company• Scaling teams to multi-pod setup with a high sense of ownership, responsibility, focus, and strong performanceIMPACT• Helped the company to transition from single to multi-product offering business• Led engineering to deliver featured a startup-like environment, fueling 100%+ GSV and Conversion QoQ growth for the new offerings + Speed Performance tiger team• Drove Speed Performance improvements centrally across the website and mobile apps• Established culture around Speed performance, advocating its importance across Engineering and Product peersIMPACT• Managed to improve Web Vitals for mission-critical Acquisition-to-Start pages by up to 100%• Increased awareness about Speed Performance importance across Product and Engineering peers+ Operational Excellence tiger team• Explored and implemented a no-code-based Engineering Dashboard focused on metrics measuring operational excellence, quality, and developers' productivity across the entire Engineering org• Adopted org-wide Operational excellence review mechanism to spread influence to the broader orgMar 2020 - Dec 2020Marketplace and Match -
Senior Engineering LeadUpwork May 2016 - Feb 2020San Francisco, California, UsMarketplace and Match• Responsible for key Marketplace and Match Domains worth more than $4B/year in GSV and contributing to 24% YoY Revenue increase (as of Q3, 2020). • Envisioned and built product features to extend core propositions, increase match between talent and clients. Grew demand and supply within a 2-sided marketplace. • Drove Frontend platform modernization.• Managed distributed teams of up to 20 team memberes. Took part in strategic planning, designing and implementing key company initiatives. Initiating, pioneering and leading mobile-first company transformation. • Led the team to achieve mission-critical service availability at 99.9%. Kicking off Frontend tech stack modernization. * Trained and mentored emerging leaders to take leadership and scale the team.IMPACT• Led company Mobile-first transformation• Scaled team from 3 to 22 engineers TECHNOLOGYAWS, Microservices, Docker, Consul, Javascript, AngularJS, PHP7, Symfony2, Memcache, WebPack, Kibana, Logstash, NewRelic, Pagerduty, Jenkins, GIT, Atlassian -
Engineering LeadUpwork Aug 2014 - Apr 2016San Francisco, California, Us• Architecturing and implementing features to drive Client acquisition and onboarding. • Leading Backend tech stack modernization for some services, using DDD and Microservices approach. • Taking part in oDesk to Upwork website rebranding. • Participating in designing and creating replication flows for Elance users to oDesk marketplace, as part of Elance and oDesk merger.• Establishing incident management, CI & CD policies and guidelines. Being responsible for deployment and site health monitoring.IMPACT• Contributed into the merger of 2 marketplaces (oDesk and Elance) becoming Upwork, preserving more than 93% of collective projected GSV• Ramped Client acquisition by 12%, First Job Post rate by 8% TECHNOLOGYJavascript, JQuery, AngularJS, PHP7, Symfony, Kibana, NewRelic, GIT, Atlassian, Java -
Co-FounderUrban Space 500 Dec 2018 - PresentShevchenkivskyi District, Kyiv City, UaUrban Space 500 is a non-profit social restaurant with 500 co-founders who donated $1000 each to launch it. The restaurant is being managed by the co-founders community. Community pledges 80% of the restaurant's profits to Kyiv's urban projects while 20% is dedicated to operational costs. Restaurant serves Ukrainian authentic food and acts as a local hub for social and cultural events. -
R&D Site LeadCiklum Aug 2009 - Aug 2014London, England, GbLed Kyiv's R&D unit, part of Isobar Media Denmark.My role involved collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment with business goals, hiring, scaling and up-leveling the teams, resource allocation, budget planning, defining system design, overseeing initiatives planning and execution. Through effective communication and leadership, I was able to drive innovation and deliver high-quality solutions to meet the needs of the organization and its customers. -
Frontend DeveloperEventr Mar 2009 - Aug 2009As a Frontend Developer for a social network startup, my role involved designing and developing user interfaces that are both visually appealing and functional. -
Full Stack EngineerSelf-Employed Jul 2005 - Apr 2009Los Angeles, UsFreelance-based web development for a variety of clients.
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Dmytro Bovkun Education Details
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National Technical University "Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute"Computer Science
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Dmytro Bovkun works for Upwork
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Dmytro Bovkun's current role is Director of Engineering.
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Dmytro Bovkun attended National Technical University "kharkiv Polytechnic Institute".
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Dmytro Bovkun has skills like Systems Design, Angular, Web Development, Agile Methodologies, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership, Php, Javascript, Strategic Planning, Solution Architecture, Nuxt.js, Vue.js.
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