Leading development of two software products (web applications) simultaneously, each with a dedicated cross-functional development team: UI/Backend/DB developers, QA engineers, DevOps and AppOps. Overall 20+ highly skilled individuals.Responsibilities:• Leading end-to-end architecture, design, UX, development, QA, release rollout, and production support of two applications.• Establishing a tailored SDLC process and a release cadence using agile best practices for delivering high-quality software within budget and in short cycles.• Defining roadmap and helping product management with features prioritization for boosting sales and reducing customer churn.• Planning and controlling 7-digit yearly budgets ($) consumption for software development, training and traveling.• Hiring, training, and developing talent. Built highly efficient teams of motivated professionals, within the budget restrictions, with right amount of skillset redundancy and succession in mind.• Administering vendors who provide staff augmentation to my teams (budgeting, talent selection, work results acceptance, contracts, invoices)• Establishing a communication and cross team collaboration culture.• Introducing E2E Testing Automation allowing to run full regression / custom test suites multiple times a week. Maintained high quality standards with great ROI.• Cultivating DevOps, defining CI/CD pipelines for Java Spring Boot, Angular and Oracle DB application components (Jenkins, Ansible, Nexus, SonarQube, Robot Framework). Automating repetitive routine operational tasks.• Keeping technical debt under control by promoting a thorough peer to peer code review process, ongoing improvements and refactoring spirit.• Implementing Monitoring and Alerting for the applications (ELK stack, Graylog, Grafana, Prometheus), env. availability heartbeat checks.

Worked 60% as lead Java developer and 40% as Scrum Master.Developing a data intensive web application for mobile roaming traffic discounts management (wholesale). This is a greenfield application (Angular + Spring Boot & REST APIs + Oracle PL/SQL & DB). It uses roaming traffic information from BI system and smart contracts for calculating the discount amounts that mobile operators must return to each other (depending on how much roaming services they consumed).Responsibilities:• Develop and support the backend of the application (REST APIs, Spring Boot, Java).• Source code quality guardian identifying and blocking tech. debt from creeping in (code review, static code analysis, OWASP vulnerability scanning, 75% JUnit test coverage, ongoing refactoring).• Scrum ceremonies facilitation (backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning, daily standups, sprint demo, retrospective, release planning and deployment preparations).• Coordination of a geographically distributed cross-functional dev. team efforts (DB / Rest / UI developers, Automation / Manual Testers).• Design specifications of business features (close collaboration with product management and sales).• Release preparation and deployment coordination.• Adopt FOSS and develop frameworks for increasing efficiency of development.

Leading a team of highly trained product experts / developers working at customer site for POST Telecom.Responsible for production support and development of the frontend applications of Customer Management Platform of POST Telecom: Amdocs CRM, OMS (Ordering Management System), Retail Self-Service.These applications are highly integrated with Amdocs Billing system and multiple external systems of POST Telecom IT infrastructure.Responsibilities:• Lead Software Development: regular releases with bug fixes, new features and improvements are delivered and deployed to production• Release Planning: review the pipeline and define the release scope based on priorities and team capacity• Lead Testing Support: support system / integration / acceptance / performance / regression and other types of testing• Processes Improvement: define, improve and document processes and procedures• Production Support: operations, incidents handling, issues analysis and resolution

Production support and ongoing development of Amdocs CRM solution in POST Telecom. Working in a customer-facing environment (onsite, at customer facilities).Responsibilities:• Developing, testing, deploying new functionality to accommodate complex business requirements. Designing solutions fitting the architecture of the customer’s Business Support Systems (BSS).• Incidents handling and defect fixing using complex debugging and error analysis techniques.• Root cause analysis and applying preventive measures to avoid potential issues reoccurring in future.• System usage patterns analysis and suggesting UX improvements to increase the efficiency of Customer Service Representatives (the users of Amdocs CRM solution).• Production monitoring, system performance analysis, identifying critical areas and implementing a notification mechanism to inform the support team(s) in case of outage of any subcomponent/service of the system.• Operational reporting: write complex SQL scripts for extracting operational reports for business stakeholders, analyzing trends, identifying data inconsistencies.• Demo product functionalities and help users leveraging product features and capabilities.

Technical lead for a team of 25+ people. Worked in various software development projects with the world's leading telecom service providers: AT&T, Sprint, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica.Customizing Amdocs CRM solution for customers' requirements and integrating it with Amdocs portfolio products and external systems of customer's IT landscape.Responsibilities:• Active involvement in all stages of software development projects: requirements analysis and high-level design, estimating development time, planning, development, packaging of deliverables, support multiple stages of QA and rollout to production, post-production support.• Promoting innovation spirit, out of the box thinking and cross-team collaboration (with project and release management, IT, Operations, QA, SW development teams).• Coding standards and best practices definition, ensuring the code and solutions are maintainable, scalable, supportable and of highest quality.• SDLC Process improvements and automation of routine tasks for entire team. Adopting / developing tools to improve overall efficiency of the development team for delivering the project on time, on budget, on quality and to the best satisfaction of the customers.• Technical interviewing and recruiting new team members, mentoring and on-job training of new hires to bring them up to the expected productivity level in short time.

Specialized in developing Amdocs CRM solution. Worked in various projects for the world's leading telecom service providers: AT&T, Sprint, Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica.Two times was nominated and rewarded as the best performer of the year in the team of 25+ people.Main technologies used: J2EE for back-end, Java Swing based GUI, Oracle DB

Software development and automation of routine processes, technical support of research activities in Centre of Applied Research of Information Society Development (a team of 30+ people), LAN administration, IT support.