In 2017 I returned to RSP Entertainment to take on a full-time CTO role and lead the company through the next stage of its growth

Invited to join the company ot help it build Onefill mobile wallet product. Maxwell Forest is working closely with international banks to push customer experience with mobile wallets, and to leverage everything that modern fintech has to offer to make customers more efficient and safe.

Was invited to join the company from overseas, and since then was involved in a development of complex CRM application in a domain-knowledge-heavy industry of Australian employment services. Leading the expansion of the company with its CRM product into other niches and industries.After being promoted to CTO in 2012, built new great team to ensure the leading position of the product across all Australian markets.Pivoted team management and workflow processes, introducing ISO and ISM compliant planning and delivery cycles.Successfully led the team through project scaling, shaping the product and infrastructure to perform with the system load increasing tenfolds, and introducing new data analytics and system visualisation tools to allow for effective system management at scale.In 2015 led the migration of business infrastructure into a fully containerised cloud environment. New production platform is powered by a cutting-edge set of modern tools - Docker, Fleet and CoreOS - and running on a large scale OpenStack based private cloud. This resulted in significantly increased flexibility for the business, and high availability of the platform for all customers.

Joined the company as technology manager after working as an offsite consultant, successfully leading it through a number of significant changes in it’s products and offerings and making sure that any major internal technological changes do not affect customers’ experience and positive sales growth.Started as a single developer on staff, and grew with the company towards the team leader and hands-on tech leadership position, successfully assisting all other departments with in-depth technological knowledge and providing them with tools and insights needed to successfully perform their jobs.Being the main point of contact on all technological issues between the company and it’s partners and customers, ensured clear and efficient communications to provide for unrestricted and rapid products development together with any involved third parties and customers.Evolved company’s online infrastructure, both hardware and software, by identifying and resolving existing sources of problems, and making sure the team is able to effective use the best tools available for the tasks at hand and the resources are tailored towards the current needs of the company.

Built the initial version of the information service and successfully lead it through a number of revised editions, resulting in the current successful and popular product that spans dozens of airports and airlines, providing realtime flight information for the passengers and any related parties.Demonstrated strong communication and issue management skills negotiating data retrieval procedures with third parties (airports and airlines) using different back-end system, providing necessary middle ground to successfully integrate all of them into the service

Provided hands-on technological support for evolving online environment of the innovative software product, ensuring seamless customer experience during numerous changes in the underlying technology, and support core software’s team with web and backend tools.

Joined the community as a regular member at the early stages of it’s growth, and helped it evolve and shape into effective operations involving thousands of active members and hundreds of contributors.Designed and bootstrapped a number of teams and processes, including Quality Assurance review procedures, lead the teams initially to battle-proof the procedures and to establish and coach successive leadership.Stood up as the community leader during the change of leadership, resolving all ongoing disputed and conflicts and ensuring the survival of the community, and later identifying and establishing successive leadership.

Successfully built and delivered the platform for mobile-oriented sms-based information and entertainment services, putting the company at the forefront of such industry in Cyprus.Managed and oversaw all IT operations of the company, including software developments and IT-related communications with business partners.

Managed and developed the network and systems at the Physics Department of Altay State University, demonstrating the ability to adapt and learn in quickly evolving educational environment.