Viacheslav Kuchkarov Email & Phone Number

Prague, Czechia

Prague, Czechia

Key responsibilities:- Being responsible for the architecture of the entire project, closely collaborating with business representatives, product owners and stakeholders, to implement technical solutions aligning with functional and non-functional requirements;- Organizing the process of designing technical solutions, documenting and adopting architectural decisions;- Participate in the organization of the end-to-end development process and coordination of development teams;- Identifying potential bottlenecks and vulnerabilities, implementing solutions to mitigate risks and enhance project stability, taking an active role in identifying and addressing the root cause of incidents, minimizing future occurrences and improving system reliability.Major accomplishments:- Played a key role in building product teams and aligning them with domain boundaries and responsibilities;- As part of the architecture committee, formed, described and implemented rules of interaction between system components: between services, between client applications and services, between operating and analytical systems;- Formulated a technical strategy for transitioning software development teams to a domain-based structure, bringing the system into compliance with non-functional requirements, getting rid of legacy, keeping crucial documentation up to date, align the architecture with general design principles and enable teams autonomy;- Took a major role in designing and implementing many business-critical projects, such as creating A/B testing platform, automatic documents processing, and others.

Key responsibilities:- Leading of the backend development unit, organization of work on projects, close interaction with stakeholders of other units;- Managing incident resolution, ensuring quick and effective resolution of system problems, contributing to improved system reliability;- Orchestrating team activities, including meet-ups, syncs and retrospective meetings, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement within the team;- Facilitating knowledge exchange among team members, promoting a culture of learning and development;- Providing mentorship and guidance to team members, contributing to their professional growth and the overall team's performance;- Getting involved into complete HR cycle, including hiring, firing, performance reviews, and one-on-one sessions, ensuring the team's alignment with company goals and values.Major accomplishments:- Developed and implemented technical strategy of improving system performance and scalability;- Align the development process in accordance with company changes, distributed development across teams, and delegated responsibility for deployment and maintenance of various parts of the product to team leaders;- Took a leading role in the transition of the system from monolithic architecture to microservices, including the development of technical strategy, creation of regulations for the creation and maintenance of new services, facilitating the emergence of the necessary number of technical leaders and coordinating the inclusion in the roadmap of necessary technical projects with business leaders;- Organized an Internal Training Project that successfully transitioned two colleagues from QA and helpdesk roles into junior developers, contributing to the company's talent development and growth.

Key responsibilities:- Developing backend services for a fintech product and its partner program, ensuring robust functionality and performance;- Conducting comprehensive code reviews for team members, ensuring code quality and fostering a collaborative environment;- Providing test coverage for written functionality, enhancing the project's reliability and stability.Major accomplishments:- Quickly adapted to a project initiated in Ruby despite being hired as a PHP developer;- Contributed to a major release of the project within six months of joining the team, demonstrating a significant impact on project milestones;- Developed a complex tariff grid for the affiliate program with analytics and postback notification mechanism.

Key responsibilities:- Developing and maintaining backend services for web and mobile applications;- Close collaboration with the mobile developers and customers.Major accomplishments:- Developed the client-side of a crypto-exchange service, involving the acquisition of raw data from an external service. Processed, aggregated, and transformed data, presenting it to clients in the form of visually appealing graphs and tables;- Developed the backend for a mobile social network prototype, aimed at extending the functionalities of a new social networking platform.

Key responsibilities:- Creating web products (frontend and backend) in close collaboration with web designers and project manager;- Managing the launch of web products in production environments and provided ongoing maintenance for sustained operation;- Regular communication with the customer, gathering requirements, demonstrating intermediate results and final product;- Mentoring and training of new employees.Major accomplishments:- Developed an MVP of a backup service, also utilized as a university diploma project. Created the web interface in Drupal (PHP) for clients and administrators, with a server-side implemented in bash, utilizing Bacula as the storage system;- Developed a food delivery service, inclusive of user interfaces and a CRM for order management. Utilized Drupal for the web part and implemented Apache Solr as the search engine;- Developed an MVP of service for booking various amenities (restaurants, car washes, saunas, and beauty salons) based on the Zend framework, providing a convenient and efficient platform for service reservations.