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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).

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.

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.

• 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.