Mikhail Nikolaev Email & Phone Number

Tashkent, Uz

Ташкент, Узбекистан

Moscow, Russia

Responsibilities:- Spearheading the technical leadership role for the development of two comprehensive courses, namely "Middle Python" and "Python Async."- Setting the overarching technical vision and direction for both courses, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.- Providing mentorship and guidance to fellow authors, fostering a collaborative and high-quality content development environment.- Crafting both theoretical and practical coursework materials from the ground up, a noteworthy contribution to the "Middle Python Developer" course.- Conducting meticulous reviews of materials generated by other authors to maintain the highest quality standards.Results:- Successfully authored and developed two complete courses, starting from a blank canvas and culminating in a rich repository of educational content.- Introduced and implemented an efficient content development process that is now in active use across 2-3 other courses, streamlining the overall production pipeline.- Formulated a comprehensive thematic course plan specifically geared towards the realm of asynchronous Python, contributing to the curriculum's depth and relevance.

Moscow, Russia

Responsibilities:1) Responsibility for the technical stability for Avito Services buyers2) Managing a technical unit of about 30 people (3 crossfunctional development teams)3) Planning resources, teams and managing projects for 6+ months4) Carrying out performance reviews for engineers5) Maintenance and improving development processes in teams6) Working with stakeholders on technical issues7) Conducting interviews for managerial positions in the company8) Mentoring and supporting engineers and team leaders of the unit9) Making decisions on salary increasesFull description of responsibilities (in russian): https://github.com/avito-tech/playbook/blob/master/techlead-profile.md#engineering-manager-2Achievements:1) Created 3 new development teams from scratch, hired the necessary engineers and shared technical responsibility for unit services between them2) Launched an online booking MVP in the "health and beauty" category3) Launched a management talent pool school for engineers4) Hired 10+ engineers to achieve unit goals5) Improved the process of working out all categories in Avito Services, which allowed company to save ~90% of engineers' time for these tasks, and also reduced TTM by ~70%6) Played a pivotal role in nurturing the growth of two talented engineers, guiding them on their remarkable journey to becoming adept team leaders

Moscow, Russia

Responsibilities:1) Managing the product development team (backend, frontend, QA, analytics, DevOps)2) Hiring, onboarding and developing engineering skills of employees3) Selecting and developing the entire technical stack of the product4) Building and managing the development process in the team5) Making decisions on key technical questions in the product6) Setting goals and decomposition of tasks for the team7) Facilitation and conflict resolution in the team8) Mentorship of team members9) Сlose communication with business, marketing, data analysts and stakeholders within the companyAchievements:1) Establised and hired a team from scratch to solve business problems in 1,5 months2) Built the architecture of the entire product3) Launched the MVP of the product in 2,5 months4) Built a development process for the needs of the product5) Launched full powered product release in 6 months after MVP6) Increased number of subscribers from 0 to 100.000 within 6 months

Moscow, Russia

Responsibilities:1) Team leadership up to 15 people2) Holding regular 1:1 meetings with teammates3) Participating in code review and systems architecture design4) Recruiting and onboarding new teammates5) Target-setting and business tasks decomposition6) Regular communication with stakeholders7) Facilitation, and when necessary resolving technical and interpersonal discussions8) Mentoring team members and collaboration with them on personal and career growthAchievements:1) Team growth from 6 to 14 people (3 sub teams)2) Introduced the practice of regular 1:1 meetings for all engineering teams

Moscow, Russia

Technologies: Python, Tornado, AsyncIO, Django, Redis, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Docker-Compose, Ansible, Oracle, LinuxResponsibilities:1) Development and maintenance of card processing functionality for own cards and cards of other institutions (acquiring)2) Creating unit, functional and load tests3) Writing technical documentation for functionality4) Development and validation of the architecture of services5) Code review6) Managing a small development team (2-3 people)Achievements:1) Implemented the functionality for issuing a virtual cards for huge telecom in Russia (Megafon).2) Transferred the card lifecycle management system from the XML protocol to the binary protocol. It allowed the company to save money on supporting the vendor system and reduce the average response time of API by ~ 20%.3) Implemented end-to-end (e2e) encryption of sensitive bank card data for mobile applications.4) Under my leadership, a decision-making system for acquiring was implemented and launched. It reduced the amount of chargebacks for fraudulent transactions by 20 times.5) Under my leadership, a data indexing system was made from PostgreSQL to Elasticsearch. We increased the speed of decision-making systems by 2-3 times and there was no need to hire more people to track fraudulent operations.

Moscow, Russia

Technologies: Python, Tornado, Django, Redis, PostgreSQL, ElasticsearchResponsibilities:1) Development and maintenance of card processing functionality for both own and other cards2) Writing unit and functional tests3) Writing technical documentation for functionality4) Development of service architectureAchievements:1) Developed an administration panel for acquiring transaction history with detalization. It allowed support team to reduce the number of support tickets to the development team by 50-60%.2) Developed a testing tool for the card processing. It allowed development team to track errors in the program business logic and find performance problems.3) Developed a system for bank card life cycle monitoring. It helped to standardize interaction with partners and track all actions on our cards.4) Implemented a functionality that allowed to add our cards to ApplePay, SamsungPay, GooglePay. The function is available to all Megafon cards customers.5) Developed a decision-making system for own cards transaction processing, which allowed to reduce the number of illegal cash withdrawals by 3-4 times and reduce the number of fraudulent transactions by 10 times. The system allowed the bank to retain its license.6) Developed a module for choosing a payment strategy in the card processing system. This system allowed company to issue and process own cards.7) Implemented a monitoring system for our services based on StasD + Graphite + Grafana, which allowed dev team to learn about problems in advance and reduce the impact of such problems on customers.

Moscow, Russia

Technologies: Python, Django, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Redis, Celery, Gunicorn, Ansible, Sentry, DockerResponsibilities:1) Development of infrastructure tools for 2nd/3rd support lines 2) Development and maintenance of clients accounting system for privite clouds utilization3) Advising 2nd/3rd support lines on complex issues related to the administration of customer servicesAchievements:1) Implemented from scratch a collecting data module from hypervisors (ESXi, Hyper-V) for billing2) Implemented a event-based service for email sending (Docker + Django + CeleryAPI)3) Implemented the looking glass service for private clouds, which allowed company to reduce the load on the second line of support for network problems (Python + JavaScript)4) Created Ansible scripts to deploy and support the monitoring infrastructure (Statsd + Graphite + Grafana)

Moscow, Russia

Technologies: Python, Google App Engine (GAE), NDBResponsibilities:1) Development of the server side of mobile applications2) Testing and debugging code3) Primary analysis of business tasksAchievements:1) Implemented order history for customers and courier coordinate display module on top of iiko API2) Implemented the functionality of placing an order in DoubleB

Master'S Degree, System And Software Engineering, 8,97

Bachelor'S Degree, Software Engineering