Aleksandr Gruzdev Email & Phone Number

Saint Petersburg, Ru

St Petersburg City, Russia

Mobile/web/backend projects like trading platforms, affiliate programs, antifraud tools. Thereare microservices-based architecture, k8s infrastructure, functional/performance testing.● Performed roles of a technical product owner, a project/resource manager, a techexpert.● Created and managed the execution of the annual tech strategy, focusing onfault-tolerant, scalable services and accelerating feature design and delivery whilefostering a tech community.● Developed an optimal organizational structure with motivated team leaders throughvertical and horizontal mobility, implementing employee development plans andtraining in soft and management skills.● Maintained minimal staff turnover in the department by addressing employeemotivation through eNPS and mNPS monitoring.● Enhanced delivery predictability by introducing tools and processes for quarterly anditerative planning (Scrum, Kanban, PMI, SAFe artifacts).● Successfully completed complex initiatives, such as splitting a monolith and launchinga new product, involving collaboration with 20+ teams and various departments.● Supported team performance through clear analytics, including 360 metrics, sprintreports, and quarterly commitment rates.● Boosted cross-team expertise by establishing a tech community, encouragingparticipation in tech talks, meet-ups, and a tech book club.● Decreased a number of production incidents and recovery time by implementingplatform observability using monitoring and alerting tools (Grafana, Prometheus,Jaeger) and targeted performance testing.● Reduced architect workload by streamlining ADR approval processes with technicaland product stakeholders.

St Petersburg City, Russia

A billing system encompassing all product licenses, tax rates, and payment functionality, builton a microservice architecture within K8s infrastructure.● Collected project requirements and created a detailed project plan.● Introduced new standards for project and technical documentation management.● Implemented development processes by appointing dev/QA feature leads.● Established a test strategy requirement during the project preparation phase.● Created onboarding programs for development and QA teams.● Fostered team spirit through regular one-on-one meetings.● Set and monitored performance goals for team members.● Integrated a new payment provider into the billing system.● Introduced domain metrics using Micrometer and visualized them with Grafana.● Implemented a custom HTTP stub server using Spring Contacts for end-to-end testing.● Managed a development and QA team, establishing processes using Kanban.● Participated in troubleshooting production incidents.

St Petersburg City, Russia

Event-Driven SOA Applications (Java) for Contact Center hosted on AWS EKS and EC2instances.● Expanded the dev/QA team from 2 to 14 members through hiring, onboarding, andmentoring, followed by the successful separation into two distinct teams.● Implemented and managed Agile processes, including Scrum and Kanban.● Participated in troubleshooting production issues.● Redesigned system observability by introducing structured logging, technical anddomain monitoring, and alerting.● Migrated Java in-memory cache to an AWS Redis cluster.● Implemented functional and performance testing frameworks for the Contact Centerproduct using event-driven design.● Developed an integration with Aspect WFM for real-time and periodic datatransmission via TCP/FTP.● Established a CI/CD pipeline for a REST application using GitLab CI, Jenkins, andKubernetes.

Multiple projects with a strong focus on high-quality standards, fault tolerance, andmaintainability, delivering resilient and sustainable software solutions.● Developed a RESTful service for uploading/downloading images to/from AWS S3,storing metadata in DynamoDB.● Created a CloudFormation template for deploying a Spring Boot service on AWSFargate, including auto-scaling policies and load balancers.● Developed a cross-region AWS Serverless application utilizing API Gateway, Lambda,SNS, and SQS, enabling non-AWS clients to produce data for AWS consumers;Lambda functions were written in Python and tested using PyTest.● Implemented Jenkins scripts for deploying CloudFormation stack resources.● Provided cost estimations for various cloud architecture solutions.● Wrote integration and end-to-end tests using RestAssured and Wiremock stubs.● Implemented a KPI collection service for ElasticSearch clusters, including a data layerfor Oracle database access, a REST facade for retrieving ES metrics, and Kibana reportgeneration using TestContainers and H2 for testing.● Refactored a multi-module application build process from Ant and Maven to Gradle forCI integration.● Contributed to a functional testing framework using the Cucumber BDD approach toautomate acceptance criteria verification.● Assisted in developing a Life-Science web aggregator with document exportfunctionality in multiple formats.