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Antalya, Turkey

Russia

Overview:Experienced IT Architect with a focus on integrating advanced technologies into architectural frameworks and development processes. Expertise in multi-data center operations, service architecture, and AI implementation in tech environments.Key Contributions:GSLB Selection & SDN Implementation: Led GSLB technology selection and SDN implementation based on WireGuard for multi-data center operations. Conducted a detailed PoC to evaluate technology efficiencies.Chaos Engineering Practices: Implemented Chaos Engineering practices, enhancing system resilience. Shared insights at MTS True Tech conference and integrated these practices into product teams.AI in Development: Initiated AI integration in development, focusing on GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT for developers' tasks. Involved in creating tests to assess AI tool effectiveness.Service Mesh Architecture: Developed and piloted Service Mesh architecture, scaling it across product teams. Implemented AI tools for failure detection and analysis in Service Mesh.Objective:Aiming to leverage my expertise in IT architecture and AI to drive innovation and operational efficiency in technology-centric environments. Passionate about pioneering AI application, network architecture, and enhancing system resilience.

Armenia

Overview:Specializing in machine learning and team communication technologies, I bring expertise in data-driven tech enhancements and process streamlining in tech startups.Achievements:Enhancing Communication Tech with ML: Joined a startup at a crucial phase to transition from static analysis to ML. Expanded and auto-labeled datasets using ChatGPT, combined with effective pre/post-processing and ML techniques like BERT, significantly increasing accuracy and securing new investments.Product Strategy Revamp: Contributed to a major overhaul of the product, realigning it with market and technological advancements, positioning the startup for future success.Streamlining HR with ML: Developed an ML model for resume analysis and classification, automating the initial screening process and significantly reducing HR workload.Leadership & Project Evaluation: Leading a team of 2 Data Scientists, 1 Backend Developer, 1 Frontend Developer, 1 Linguist, and 1 Analyst/Product Owner. Involved in project evaluations and interviewing technical experts for senior roles.Objective:Aiming to leverage my IT audit and ML expertise to aid startups in tech capability enhancement and process optimization. Passionate about merging technology and business challenges.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Overview:As the lead of DeepTalk's ML development, I drive the innovation of educational technologies using machine learning. My role involves team leadership, product development, and market adaptation.Achievements:DeepTalk Product Suite: Established a team for the DeepTalk family, focusing on ML-based educational tools.Handwriting Recognition Project: Led a project for recognizing school students' handwriting in essays and math, involving custom annotation tool development and integration into the company's platform.Innovations with ChatGPT: Conducted product hypothesis testing and PoC creation using ChatGPT, followed by model development and validation.Personalized Learning Trajectory System: Developed a system for personalized learning trajectories using historical data analysis and knowledge graph construction.Digital Teacher Twin: Created a digital twin of a teacher, incorporating NLP, SpeechToText, and TextToSpeech, initially using Google Cloud technologies before transitioning to in-house models.Security Enhancement: Implemented an API Gateway and refined the learning platform's authorization system for enhanced security.Market Expansion: Currently adapting our products for the Indian education market.Team: Lead a team of 3 Data Scientists, 2 Backend Developers, 3 Frontend Developers, a DevOps engineer, and 2 Analysts.Tech Stack: Expertise in Traefik, Golang, Python, Tesseract, PyTorch, NumPy, TensorFlow, Keras, Moodle, PostgreSQL, etc.Objective:Aiming to further advance educational technology through ML innovation, making learning tools more accessible and impactful globally. Focused on merging tech with education for better learning outcomes.

Professional Role:As TechLead for the SmartMarket project, I managed a spectrum of tasks from incident resolution to prototyping. My focus was on integrating technologies, enhancing system reliability, and streamlining development with AI/ML solutions.Responsibilities:System Integration: Led the integration of SmartMarket tools with Platform V, facilitating DBaaS and FaaS applications. This involved API-first integrations with adjacent systems and sizing estimations.Reliability Enhancement: Boosted SmartMarket's microservice architecture reliability. Employed Chaos Engineering to test resilience under various scenarios, achieving a 99.9% criticality level for runtime components with dual-operation arms and infrastructure improvements.Recruitment and HR: Handled resume verification and senior/architect role interviews, both for in-house and outstaff teams, ensuring high-caliber team expansion.AI/ML Development: Implemented a custom GPT-3 based model for development auto-completion, enhancing efficiency.Team Leadership:Oversaw 2 architects and multiple teams, coordinating diverse tasks for optimal project outcomes.Objective:Continuing to lead in tech innovation, I aim to apply my skills in system integration, AI/ML, and team management to cutting-edge projects, advancing smart application technologies.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Professional Overview:As the leader of the RnD team for AI initiatives, I specialize in bridging the gap between innovative AI solutions and architectural demands. I built and managed a developer-architect team of 4, alongside a 10-person Data Science team, driving forward-thinking projects in AI and architecture.Key Responsibilities:Team Management and Collaboration: Assembled a skilled developer-architect team to collaborate effectively with the existing Data Science team. Focused on integrating diverse skill sets to achieve cohesive project outcomes.Project Leadership: Undertook multiple roles, including developer, architect, and Product Owner. Responsibilities included formulating hypotheses, developing PoCs, and setting objectives based on RnD outcomes.Strategic Development and Implementation: Transformed business requirements into specific, actionable problems. Defined clear objectives and results for project work, overseeing the development and implementation processes.Major Projects:Developed an AI engine for modifying microservice architecture in cloud environments, incorporating autoscaling, fault tolerance, and availability using Chaos Engineering.Created "smart" stubs for various API types.Implemented architecture recovery from code and architecture validation before acceptance testing.Designed an ML Fuzzing API for service testing and data collection.Developed a chatbot for the architectural knowledge repository.Additional Contributions:Actively involved in inner source teams as a Chaos Engineer, testing and improving legacy systems.Presented at ArchDays 2019 on Chaos Engineering in banking: Journey into Chaos.Objective:My goal is to continue leading and innovating in AI and architecture, merging technical expertise with strategic insight to create robust, efficient, and cutting-edge solutions in the architectural sector.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Overview:As a Lead Architect, I've spearheaded multiple projects, focusing on data storage, distributed systems, and cloud-native applications. My expertise lies in scenario development, technical leadership, and practical implementation in advanced IT environments.Key Projects:Data Storage Selection: Led the transition from GridGain and Oracle. Conducted comprehensive testing and analysis, including synthetic load generation and Jepsen tests.Virtual RedTeam Formation: Developed scenarios and toolsets for testing distributed solutions, identifying defects, and enhancing operational risks, stability, and security in banking systems.Calvin Database Research: Explored data consistency algorithms, storage layers, and distributed transactions. Aimed to verify key database management hypotheses.Cloud Native Applications Training: Orchestrated an employee training program on cloud-native applications using OpenShift/k8s, Istio, Java 9+, and monitoring tools like Prometheus and Grafana.Active Monitoring System: Developing a system for microservice monitoring and analysis, focusing on performance prediction and degradation analysis.Presentations & Contributions:Delivered presentations at internal conferences and meetups.Supported an internal AWS project with DevOps and architectural expertise, involving nginx, Golang, Node.js, and Python.Objective:Continuing to lead in technical innovation and project development, aiming to integrate cutting-edge technologies into complex IT systems and share expertise through presentations and practical applications.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Worked on the project: Digital Banking Solution (DBS) for legal entities.I participated in discussing the architecture of the DBS, validating domain models. I was involved in designing several services with key functionalities based on CQRS and Event sourcing patterns.I developed the architecture of several functional microservices. Tech. design. Testing. Implementation.Implemented end-to-end logging using Sleuth and Zipkin.Ensured developers worked correctly with Hystrix.Handled security issues in the internal perimeter and authorization via SSO + TLS v1.3.Properly designed and expanded the functions of the API gateway, Apache Zuul. I was involved in performance tuning due to peculiar requirements.Hidden nginx behind zuul, which severely affected my psychological state.Constructed a graph of relationships between microservices and addressed the issue of microservice dependencies at startup.Conducted code reviews and tried to explain to developers.Explained to devops gurus that I wasn't breaking their yearly pipeline by wanting to have a scalable API gateway service.Technologies/tools used include:Kubernetes,Docker,Kafka, Kafka Streams,Java,Spring Boot,Hibernate,PostgreSQL (Standalone),CQRS and Event Sourcing, among others.

Moscow, Russian Federation

Development and adaptation of the Apache Ignite project for implementation in the bank's internal projects.For this project, I also performed tasks such as: writing Jepsen tests, implementing a split-brain detection mechanism, writing a ZeroMQ streamer, and so on.I was also involved in the process of team building and organizing infrastructure for testing.

Ryazan Region, Russian Federation

Development and testing of advanced solutions. In my work, I used ASF Camel, Ignite, and Kafka. Application modernization using Hazelcast to implement cluster operations.

Ryazan Region, Russian Federation

I work with:Ruby,Ruby on Rails,crawlering, scraping,PostgreSQL.

Ryazan Region, Russian Federation

I work with:Java,Vaadin,Hibernate,Scala,Apache CXF,Oracle.