Chief Technology Officer
Symmetrical / November 2023 - Present
1+ month
I worked as a Chief Technology Officer at Symmetrical where I am responsible for Symmetrical's technology standards, strategy, best practices and development processes. We provide modern backoffice solution focusing on Payroll and HR Ops areas.
- Developing technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
- Defining technology standards and best practices and sharing and enforcing them in organization
- Developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably and securely
- Supporting teams in the process of defining requirements in terms of alignment with architecture strategy, technology standards and engineering best practices
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
- Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
Leading engineering department of 25+ engineers.
#leadership #agile #architecture #technology #standards #best-practices #kpi/okr
Chief Technology Officer
Playbook Engineering / December 2021 - November 2023
2 years
I worked as a Chief Technology Officer at Playbook Engineering where I am responsible for Playbook's technology standards, strategy, best practices and development processes. Playbook provides next gen global betting platform for established operators and new entrants who are looking to disrupt the betting industry.
- Developing technical aspects of the company’s strategy to ensure alignment with its business goals
- Defining technology standards and best practices and sharing and enforcing them in organization
- Developing the company’s strategy for using technological resources
- Ensuring technologies are used efficiently, profitably and securely
- Supporting teams in the process of defining requirements in terms of alignment with architecture strategy, technology standards and engineering best practices
- Discover and implement new technologies that yield competitive advantage
- Supervise system infrastructure to ensure functionality and efficiency
- Monitor KPIs and IT budgets to assess technological performance
- Use stakeholders’ feedback to inform necessary improvements and adjustments to technology
- Communicate technology strategy to partners and investors
Managed a team of ~80 software engineers, including Backend (Scala/Rust), Frontend (React/React Native), QA (Cypress/Playwright) and DevOps (GCP/AWS, Kubernetes, Argo). Grew the engineering team from 60 to 80 Engineers in the time of 2 years.
#leadership #agile #architecture #technology #standards #best-practices #kpi/okr
Lead Platform Architect
G2A.com / March 2021 - November 2021
1 year 9 months
Worked as a Lead Platform Architect where I was responsible for all G2A's internal platform initiatives aiming to increase
developers performance, operations efficiency and production maintainability.
From application delivery platform built around Kubernetes, Rancher and other cloud-native technologies, through frontend platform leveraging React and Next which empowers frontend developers to develope web pages with confidence, data platform event-based data analytics and reporting hub with technologies like Kafka, Flink and Spark, to observability platform built on top of open standards like OpenTelemetry and OpenMetrics.
- Defining technology standards and best practices and sharing and enforcing them in organization
- Designing architecture of new products, systems, services and changes related to them
- Cooperating development teams, product and business owners in order to create best solutions for business challenges (according to objectives and constraints)
- Supporting business and development teams in the process of defining requirements in terms of alignment with architecture strategy, technology standards and technology best practices
- Researching, analyzing and introducing chosen technologies based on the market trends
- Realizing OKRs & KPIs mutually agreed upon with Lead Architect
- Creating and maintaining architecture documentation
- Developing and realizing own and delegated projects
- Identifying and managing risk factors related to the adopted architecture and technology
- Conducting technical trainings, workshops and presentations
- Manage, mentor and grow people by developing technical and soft skills
- Support open communication culture, encourage creativity and risk-taking
- Discover team members’ training needs
- Listen to team members’ feedback and resolve any issues or conflicts
Led 3 teams of 3-7 engineers, 20 engineers total.
#leadership #architecture #cloud-native #kubernetes #prometheus #opentelemetry #openmetrics #stream-processing #batch-processing #etl #react
Technical Product Manager
G2A.com / January 2020 - February 2021
1 year 2 months
Worked in a Technical Product Manager for G2A's application delivery platform based on Kubernetes and leading cloud-native technologies. Platform empowers G2A's product development teams to ship with confidence and agility, enables them to focus on the code and provides them with a unified platform to continuously deliver business ideas to end users. Platform accelerates software delivery cycle and reduce costs at the same time by providing operations automation, monitoring system, hardened security and unified build and deploy processes to all the teams. By shifting the responsibility from operations to development teams it increases software quality, lower time to market and decrease number of production incidents.
- Define and execute product vision and strategy for G2A’s application delivery platform.
- Maintain and communicate a prioritized platform roadmap to support G2A’s strategic initiatives.
- Work closely with G2A developers, architects and other product owners.
- Participate in planning sessions to define initiatives, resolve dependencies and perform data-driven prioritization in an agile delivery environment.
- Communicate and evangelize the value of application delivery platform to product engineering teams and business stakeholders by defining, tracking and reporting on metrics and objectives.
- Work cross-functionally across product, engineering, architecture, infrastructure fields and other areas.
#product #growth #scrum #agile #cloud-native #kubernetes #prometheus #opentelemetry #openmetrics
Software Architect
G2A.com / October 2018 - February 2021
2 year 5 months
Worked as a Software Architect where I helped to design and architect multiple distributes systems and where I contributed to establishing various standards for G2A's development teams.
- Developing and socializing of latest technology trends and market solutions.
- Defining technology standards and best practices and sharing/enforcing them in organisation.
- Overseeing deployment standards and plans for Cloud/On-premise based solutions.
- Designing new components, solutions, systems, ecosystems and their modifications.
- Architecting and supporting Cloud/On-premise solutions, analysing performance profiles of Cloud/On-premise based applications and advising on possible improvements.
- Cooperating with technical leads, supervisors and business owners in order to create optimal solutions for business challenges (according to objectives and constraints).
- Developing and realising own and delegated projects.
- Training organization members in advanced solutions/technologies.
- Creating and maintaining architecture documentation.
#architecture #distributed-systems #standards #documentation
Software Engineering Supervisor
G2A.com / Sep 2017 - July 2018
11 months
I was responsible for technical and architecture guidelines for G2A's service delivery department and was working on daily basis with product team to coordinate implementation of IT standards across department.
- Responsible for technical recommendations.
- Provide technical & architectural guidelines for IT projects.
- Prepare, design and maintain technical documentation & architecture diagrams of IT projects.
- Communicate with business about technical problems and decisions.
- Cooperate with vendors and technological partners.
- Coordinate implementation of IT standards and technology choices across projects.
- Work with DevOps / Operations to ensure reliability of releases and environments.
#team #leadership
Senior DevOps Engineer
G2A.com / May 2017 - October 2018
1 year 6 months
I was responsible for G2A's DevOps transformation by introducing automation technologies like Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins or Artifactory and implement G2A's CI/CD Pipelines.
I've managed to implement Infrastructure as a Code and GitOps approach which resulted in wide adoption of devops principles in G2A.
- Participate in project teams in developing/building IT solutions to meet business requirements.
- Coordinates development activities with other groups.
- Lead and guides the design, development
of reusable components.
- Perform script maintenance and update due to changes in requirements or
implementations.
- Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
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Contribute to and review deployment plans; schedules the
installation of new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment.
- Work with
Release Management to ensure modules are production ready.
- Create release notes, deployment
plans, etc.
- Verify the functionality
of components and services and ensure deployment meets client's expectations.
- Plan ongoing
routine application maintenance tasks.
- Establish requirements, methods and procedures for
routine maintenance.
- Oversee and
assist in production support.
#dev #ops #ci/cd #iaac #ansible #terraform #jenkins
DevOps Engineer
G2A.com / February 2017 - May 2017
4 months
I was responsible for infrastructure automation, ci/cd processes and G2A's cloud adoption.
- Participate in project teams in developing/building IT solutions to meet business requirements.
- Coordinates development activities with other groups.
- Lead and guides the design, development
of reusable components.
- Perform script maintenance and update due to changes in requirements or
implementations.
- Build automated deployments using configuration management technology.
-
Contribute to and review deployment plans; schedules the
installation of new modules, upgrades and fixes to the production environment.
- Work with
Release Management to ensure modules are production ready.
- Create release notes, deployment
plans, etc.
- Verify the functionality
of components and services and ensure deployment meets client's expectations.
- Plan ongoing
routine application maintenance tasks.
- Establish requirements, methods and procedures for
routine maintenance.
- Oversee and
assist in production support.
#dev #ops #ci/cd
DevOps Engineer
Grand Parade part of William Hill / October 2015 - February 2017
1 year 4 months
I was responsible for DevOps in Grand Parade's in-house built betting platform which now powers https://www.starsports.bet.
I've implemented full featured CI/CD pipeline flow from scratch with Jenkins which allowed platform developers to deliver new features with confidence and reliability.
- Continuous Deployment, automated rollback and failover in Ansible.
- Continuous Integration.
Writing build/test/deploy pipelines.
- Continuous Performance Management. Measuring performance
and working with developers to improve
it (Gatling, Scala, JVM).
- Administration of databases (PostgreSQL, Couchbase, Cassandra)
and messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Administration of web servers (Nginx, HAProxy). Load
balancing.
- Administration
of big data clusters (Spark, Hadoop, HBase)
- Network and Linux virtual machines administration
to some extent. Autoscaling (Google Cloud, Amazon).
- Containerisation / packaging. Distributed
component integration/troubleshooting
(Docker).
- Log aggregation (Kibana / Logstash)
- Availability Monitoring (Zabbix, Consul)
- Metrics and Statistics (StatsD, Riemann, Graphite, InfluxDB)
#dev #ops #ci/cd #kafka #cassandra #couchbase #consul
Technical Support Engineer
Grand Parade part of William Hill / March 2015 - October 2015
8 months
I was responsible for all Grand Parade's products and services on production, maintenance, performance
optimization,
bug fixes and troubleshooting. I was working on daily basis with real time systems that manage
payments, transactions, live trade and betting.
- Contribute to automating the build deployment of software and application services.
- Deploy
software patches, upgrades and perform post deployment verification.
- Deploy new applications
and services.
- Expand and
add capacity for existing applications.
- Provide 12x7 operational support (L3) when on-call.
- Perform complex troubleshooting of multiple applications, monitor and improve operations performance,
security and resources usage.
- Submit and implement change requests.
- Transfer operations
support knowledge through training and writing technical documentation and KB articles.
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Collaborate with various DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering teams
to engineer and manage the Continuous Delivery Platform.
#sre #rca #itil #on-call #availability
Full Stack Engineer
Grand Parade part of William Hill / July 2014 - February 2015
8 months
I was responsible for development of sport betting systems and content management solutions for
betting
industry. Working on both frontend and backend solutions to ensure high accessibility over all
platforms.
- Collaboration with experienced designers to implement user-facing features in company’s products
- Supporting diverse clients from high powered desktop to tablets and mobile phones
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Optimization of cross-browser web applications
- Working on smooth animations
- Working
with SVG and Canvas
- Building efficient and reusable front-end systems and abstraction
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Developing prototypes
#web #mobile #full-stack
Full Stack Engineer
Hamilton May / April 2012 - June 2014
2 years 3 months
I was responsible for working on a range of projects, designing appealing websites and
interacting on a
daily basis with graphic designers and developers. My work was mainly focused on building custom
solutions and systems used internally by Hamilton
May.
- Working on custom Content Management solutions for property management.
- Implementing Commission solutions to ease daily work of real estate managers.
- Building appealing frontend websites and landing pages.
- Performance optimization of real estate / property management databases systems
#web #mobile #full-stack
Owner
ifico / Self-employment
10+ years
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