Cto
Toronto, Ontario, Ca
After acquisition by Personify in 2017, I took over CTO responsibilities in addition to my Product Manager role, becoming R&D leader of Wild Apricot product development. Responsible for building world-class practices in R&D. - Reduced release time from 2-4 times a year to every 2-3 weeks, with zero downtime - Established ongoing vulnerabilities management process- Achieved system uptime >99.95% via established CI/CD practices like canary releases with rollback, features toggles and 24/7 incident management processes R&D budgeting incl. salaries, licensing, hosting, training, and certification costsLed the R&D team - over 60 people in total - in the Toronto and Moscow offices- Nine teams (product feature teams, security and IT, cloud hosting, devops tools) - Coached leaders of QA, Development, Operations, IT, and DevOps tools - Responsible for staffing decisions - Led the salary and performance review processLed integration of Wild Apricot R&D into Personify after the acquisition- Annual planning with the extended leadership team, then delivering on the plans- Connected various teams and people together, established ongoing knowledge sharing- Maintained company pulse and motivation while going through the change- Exceeded financial and product goals