Lead Architect
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, De
Several major projects I was working on during this endeavor:Edge 2.0 – next generation of company’s flagship product, development of which required a full rewrite of entire codebase by 3 geographically dispersed (USA/Korea/India) teams. I have created project plan, defined milestones, teams, roles, goals and established agile work environment and processes for collaborative development. During entire development period led teams to success by sharing and applying agile best practices, setting priorities and goals, providing architectural designs, defining processes. To the Cloud - initiated, planned and led all the way till completion move of production and staging environments to Microsoft Windows Azure. I have started a new operations team working side by side with engineers, seeded and nurtured DevOps culture. Improved site uptime, health visibility and monitoring, reliability and scalability, upgraded entire infrastructure, established disaster recovery environment all while saving company $350k a year.Debt Killers – lead agile team to rapidly improve site stability, reliability and performance to prevent potentially disastrous outcomes which became possible due to accumulated over the years technical debt and lack of investment in critical areas. For almost a year worked shoulder to shoulder with best engineers across entire technology stack to refactor, rewrite, redo or replace core application pieces and infrastructure. Automated builds and deployment, simplified release processes, decoupled key systems and scaled out product development by spawning several more efficient agile teams with clearly defined goals and responsibilities.