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Japan

Japan

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

My job responsibilities include:- Managing the development of the company's IT products.- Providing comprehensive support for the company's needs in modern information technologies.- Ensuring the stability of IT systems, data security, protection against unauthorized access, timely adaptation of IT systems to business needs, digitization, and automation of company business processes.- Managing IT innovations (identifying needs, presenting and promoting, evaluating, implementing).- Developing the organization's IT strategy, leading the creation and updating of IT infrastructure.- Executing tasks set by company management and decisions agreed upon in meetings with other department leaders.- Motivating and training IT staff, creating conditions for development.- Managing the budget.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Role Highlights:- Enhanced analytics framework for reports, machine learning, and recommendations.- Implemented Kanban, boosting team output by 1.5x and reducing toil by 50%.- Led automatic storage optimization, reducing costs by 30%.- Onboarded and mentored developers, improving team capabilities.- Migrated 30+ TB of data, established ad-hoc query infrastructure, and refactored platform code.- Transitioned recommendation infrastructure to a data warehouse, enhancing efficiency.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Role Highlights:- Implemented fully automated IAM management using a Terraform module.- Created a new GitHub Action for flexible Docker image pushes to AWS/Yandex Container Registry, - replacing the old non-scalable action for Yandex CR.- Developed a Terraform module for deploying S3 buckets.- Deployed an infrastructure Kubernetes cluster and essential infrastructure components, including high-availability Teleport, Prometheus + Thanos, Loki, and Cilium.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Role Highlights- Implemented key processes and handled hiring, onboarding, and budget management.- Managed the personalization team, promoting and transitioning multiple developers.- Mentored C# interns, transitioning 50% to junior roles and hiring two juniors.- Led the migration of a legacy monolith to a scalable architecture, automating CI/CD and improving backend performance.- Designed monitoring and auto-scaling systems, improved code quality, and extracted microservices.- Reduced failure frequency and recovery time, improved resource utilization, and enabled rapid auto-scaling.- Introduced toil reviews, retrospectives, and feedback sessions, enhancing team efficiency and morale.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Role Highlights:- Developed a JavaScript SDK that reduced client integration time from weeks to one hour.- Enabled over 1,000 client sites to handle 7-10k requests per second.- Infrastructure managed a DDoS attack of 70k requests per second without intervention.- Created personalization mechanics presets, cutting integration time to 5-10 minutes.- Implemented metrics and auto-scaling infrastructure, improving reliability and performance.- Significantly improved flexibility and efficiency of site personalization product.

Role Highlights:- Led the migration of product data across 500+ databases and refactored 100+ code files.- Developed tools to automate email and schema migrations, enhancing efficiency.- Designed and implemented a scalable A/B testing platform for ML, supporting 1,000+ hypotheses.- Improved ML recommendations and deployment processes.- Built infrastructure for the NBA algorithm, contributing significantly to client revenue.- Migrated infrastructure from bare metal to Terraform, Ansible and Kubernetes (via Helm & Helmfile) enabling horizontal scaling.- Deployed a scalable Cassandra cluster, enhancing performance and capacity.- Onboarded two junior developers, boosting team capacity and productivity.

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

I worked on developing TeamSLA, an internal product that monitors employee commitments across GitHub, Trello, Sentry, and Pipedrive.Key achievements include:- Integrated TeamSLA with Pipedrive, ensuring seamless daily use by over 50 employees.- Developed personalized Slack channel settings used by all teams, operating error-free.- Created a user-friendly team management interface, utilized by over 10 people semi-annually.- Implemented flexible label settings for Trello integration, allowing two teams to customize their processes, which eventually benefited all teams.Additionally, I onboarded new team members and collaborated with a mentor to discuss architecture.

Moscow City, Russia

I was responsible for managing delivery timelines, product quality, hardware composition, and budgeting, reporting directly to the founder and CEO. Here are the key results from my tenure:- Transitioned development from outsourced to in-house.- Reduced hardware costs by threefold.- Enabled automatic product scaling.- Decreased failure rates from 2-3 times a week to once a year.- Tripled the speed of ETL processes.- Increased feature delivery speed by 1.5 times on average.- Expanded the team from 4 to 12 members.- Established effective cross-functional team workflows and transitioned to a new tech stack.These achievements significantly improved the overall efficiency and effectiveness of our operations.