As Head of R&D at HAAT Delivery, I drive innovation and shape our company's future. My focus is on advancing technology that benefits our customers and nurturing our talented team. Since joining, I've grown the R&D team from a few to over 30 members and helped shape our company culture and core values.My responsibilities:- Develop and execute the company's R&D strategy, aligning with the overall business goals and objectives- Build and manage a high-performing R&D team, mentoring and developing individual team members- Oversee the day-to-day operations of the R&D department, including resource allocation and project management- Manage relationships with external technology partners and vendors- Ensure the robustness of the infrastructure, including cloud services, databases, and networking- Implement and maintain a robust CI/CD pipeline to ensure the efficient and reliable delivery of software- Stay up to date with the latest technology advancements, and identify new opportunities for the company to leverage these advancements- Manage R&D budget, costs, and related financial planning

Design and develop of proteanTecs' infrastructure and its architecture. Write tools aimed at enhancing developers' productivity and efficiency. I develop processes, tools, and documentation in support of production operations, as well as enhancing the overall system reliability and scalability - from dev environments to highly scalable production ones. I aid in the promotion of knowledge sharing and overall DevOps culture throughout the engineering department.• Responsible for developing CI/CD systems using Jenkins pipelines (Groovy) and GitHub actions• Automate provisioning of new on-demand K8s clusters for development purposes (Ansible, Python, AWX) • Ensure proper monitoring, alerting, capacity planning, and reporting in the production environment• Evaluate and integrate new tools and services to improve our processesI work extensively with Java (Gradle build tool), Python, Docker, K8s, kOps, Ansible, AWX, and various tools and scripting languages.

Playing a key role in the development of proteanTecs' microservice-based cloud platform.Our team's responsibility is developing a solution in an extremely big data environment while contributing to the robustness, flexibility, and security of it.I work extensively in Java (JDK 13, Spring framework), Python, and a bunch of technologies that comprise our tech stack - K8s, Docker, Redis, MySQL, RabbitMQ, and more.

Salt is an API security platform that prevents zero-day API breaches and detects attack attempts long before other solutions alarms are tripped. With no other solution in the market today, we lead the way with innovative next-generation API security. Graduated from the YC (Y Combinator), the top accelerator in the world, and backed by top strategic investors.Technologies: Scala, Akka, Python, MongoDB, MySQL, K8s, Docker

Linux-based development of the management stack of Stratoscale's hyper-converged infrastructure solution. Working on large-scale distributed software systems with short releases.• Developing, debugging and maintaining a standalone service for EC2 API support in Stratoscale, based on the OpenStack EC2 API• Contributing to the entire product development process, from refining the technical requirements, through design, implementation, testing, and deployment• Continuous development and improvement of the current backend and service architecture of the product• Debugging a system with hundreds of independent components and services, that span across the entire software stackTechnologies: Python, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, Bash

Linux-based development of Taykey's core system and frameworks, playing with massive amounts of data and distributed systems using cutting-edge technologies while collaborating with the research team to plan, design and implement efficient algorithms for collecting and analyzing the data.• Develop and maintain frameworks for collecting big data• Develop REST-based APIs and services• Large scale analytic and messaging• Participate in software design decisions • Write expressive, efficient and extensible code• Take ownership of E2E solutions provided by teams across the companyTechnologies: Java (Spring, Maven), Python (Flask), Scala, Spark, RabbitMQ, Celery, Elasticsearch, AWS

Responsible for developing, maintaining and implementing application lifecycle management (ALM) tools. Position included:• Leading a team of part-time software developers• Extensive work with Java/Swing technologies• Converting abstract specifications into executable code• Responsible for training new developers• Debugging, editing and maintaining already existing projects