ELEMENT enables insurance and non-insurance companies to offerinnovative insurance products to their customers. The products are fully digital, developed within the shortest amount of time, and tailored perfectly to suit the requirements and needs of customers.Element has developed a modular, flexible, and customizable product platform.Element maps the entire value chain, including actuarial services,underwriting, claims management, product development, and administration.I joined the company when it was a young startup. I took over a small development team and grew it into a solid engineering department supporting the company's business growth and evolution to the scale-up phase. The engineering department became a trustworthy partner for internal and external business stakeholders by providing reliable and pragmatic tech solutions.Key achievements:- Hired and retained great talents, continuously increasing the team from 10 engineers to 40 without compromising the overall high skill level. Our team has a low churn rate, with many outstanding engineers working with us for 4+ years.- Established a dev leadership group by hiring and mentoring engineering managers (i.e., managers of managers). Trained and empowered engineering managers group ensured robustness and enabled further department growth.- Hired and established a DevOps team and surrounding processes- Established multiple processes that helped to bring the engineering team to the next maturity level: e.g., incident handling plan, cross-team hiring guidelines, engineering career ladder, architecture runway, etc.- Presented our tech solutions during the investor pitch meetings- Successfully passed all yearly external IT Audits- Introduced and continuously evolved IT Strategy

Within 1.5 years we have successfully delivered in-house scalable corebanking system and smoothly migrated existing legacy system.I joined the company in early stages of new system development andparticipated in building product starting from initial whiteboard ideas tosuccessfully operating in production solution.Main achievements:- efficient management of in-house and nearshore development teams.Onboarding, regular feedbacks, coaching.- I hired and retained great software engineers, who proved to bea perfect match for our team from day one.- practiced hands-on leading by example: requirements engineering, techdesign, coding.- I was a significant part of the hiring process: CV screening, dev taskevaluation, interviewing.- closely worked with other departments to maintain high levels of visibilityand collaboration.- introduced agile development process within my teams to ensuresmoothness and predictability for all participants. As a consequence, Iperformed scrum master role for my teams.Techniques:- Microservices and their APIs as products.- Test pyramid (Unit > Integration > API > End-to-end)- Agile development process- Domain driven designPlatforms: Docker,KubernetesTools: TeamCity, Swagger, Prometheus, GrafanaLanguages & Frameworks: Java & Spring Boot, Apache Kafka,Groovy

Managing team of 12 developers:- Technical delivery responsibility for the team roadmap jointly agreed withthe Product Manager.- Re-organized agile development process: planning, dailies, grooming,backlog etc. Additionally, fulfilled scrum master role.- Introduced Domain Driven Design architecture principles for new projects.- Integrated BA into development process (grooming sessions, sharingarchitecture design\strategy with BA’s) to ensure smooth collaboration ofbusiness and IT.- Reported to C-Level management status of ongoing projects.- Suggested efficient scope slicing and technical delivery strategy for keyprojects

As a member of architecture board I achieved following results:- Closely worked with the Product team to define architectural challengeson early stages of new feature introduction.- Efficiently supported teams throughout whole development process: fromdesign, coding to product delivery.- Defined and implemented the process for development tests CI support:broken tests were automatically reported in Jira by CI tool and assignedto an appropriate development team.- Defined dev testing guidelines. As a result dev testing became morecoherent and reliable, this improved overall quality of the product.- Modeled and documented software services based on (non-) functionalrequirements defined by stakeholders.- Performed smooth application technical release and packaging.- Successfully represented my company during negotiations withthird-party partners regarding technical integration.- Defined and presented technical epics/user stories(e.g. tech debt,non-functional requirements) for dev teams.

Yapital (https://www.yapital.com/) https://www.linkedin.com/company/yapitalCashless cross-channel payment solution. Distributed, highly available, scalable, PCI-DSS compliant solution for e-commerce payments.Main responsibilities:- Leading distributed team of 5 software engineers.- Fulfilled role of interim Scrum master.- Long term team planning, risk planning- Coordinating and defining coding/security/architecture standards- Mentoring junior colleagues.- Providing feedback to the team on a regular basis- Interviewing candidates for software development positions.- Maintaining technical debt backlogAchievements: - Implemented accounting module of the system (chart of accounts, accounting transactions).- Designed and implemented Send Money Functionality between e-Wallets.- Drove implementation of Yapital Master Card payment module(ISO 8583, clearing)- Led implementation of issuing and maintaining Yapital Master Card.- Acted as technical representative from Yapital development team side during integration with Master Card services (technical negotiations, conducting integration testing, solving integration issues)- Led Yapital Shop REST API(integration of Web-shops with e-wallets) design and implementation. Implemented system tests for API testing.Technology Stack: • Java SE: 1.7• Java EE: Servlets, JSP/JSTL, JMS, EJB, JPA• Hibernate, Oracle 11g, PL/SQL• Spring: IoC, ORM, TX, Integration, Security, MVC• Camel: camel-core, camel-jms, camel-http, camel-ftp, camel-mina• JSP/JSTL, Html, JavaScript, JQuery• Jboss EAP 6.*, HornetQ• JUnit, Mockito, MockMvc, Groovy• Also: SVN, Maven, Jenkins, FishEye, Jira, Confluence

Yapital (https://www.yapital.com/) https://www.linkedin.com/company/yapitalCashless cross-channel payment solution. Distributed, highly available, scalable, PCI-DSS compliant solution for e-commerce payments.

Simultaneous development of 4 different applications for providing objective, relevant and systematic environmental, social and governance (ESG) information based on 250+ key performance indicators (KPIs) and 750+ individual data points along with their original data sources.Applications developed:• desktop application + server side business logic for gathering and processing information (JWS, Spring RC)• 2 web applications: * ASSETMASTEREXECUTIVE for corporate executives (Java, Wicket, jQuery, CSS) * ASSETMASTERPROFESSIONAL for investors (Java, SpringMVC, JSP, jQuery, Hibernate)• Excel Add-in(VB6) and server side(Java, Wicket, Hibernate) for viewing ESG data. I was involved in all development stages: designing (including writing and presenting design documentation to the team) and implementing solutions from the scratch as well as modifying existing functionality and eventually supporting this code. I worked on both backend and frontend.Technologies and tools used:* Java 2EE* Spring* Hibernate* JQuery* JasperReports* VB 6* Wicket* PostgreSQL* JUnit (+jMock)* Maven

Backend for house rental service cofman.com (cofman.com is a aggregator of house/apartments rental data in Europe). As a java developer I was responsible for analyzing requirements(by both communicating with business persons and reading documentation) with following designing and implementing solutions. Also I was writing unit tests (using Easymock) to cover my own code. Overall project code coverage was about 50-60%. In this project we used pure scrum methodology with 2 weeks iterations starting with planning and ending with demo and retrospection. Also we frequently used pair programming and code review to improve quality of the code.Technologies and tools used:* Java 2SE* PostgreSQL* Easymock* Ant

Tickets reservation system for small and medium airlines, is used by 25 customers in more than 12 different countries. I was involved into full cycle development: analyzing specification, design, estimation and planning, implementation module responsible for Amadeus communication using PNR/EDIFACT protocols, reporting to PM.Technologies used:* Java 2EE* Toplink