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Looking for long term full time contract as CTO or Head of Information Technology. I’m passionate about building efficient backends especially distributed, event driven and highly scalable. I have great leadership and management skills, on top of that attention to details and have experience in building IT departments and teams of various sizes. I do not limit myself only to that I work on expending my expertise to various domains within the IT industry everyday.

Experience

CyanView

• Engineering manager (hands on) oct 2024 - now
  • Rebuilt UI for one of the devices in elixir
  • Conducted job search for elixir developers
  • Organised IT projects workflow

1703 Group

• Freelance aug 2023 - now ****· Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Startup Advisory oct 2023 - now
    • Hourly or goal based consulting for Luxembourg startup ecosystem.
  • Seasoned Senior Software Engineer oct 2023 - sep 2024
    • Freelance full-stack and backend projects, primarily in Elixir.
  • Fractional CTO oct 2023 - sep 2024
    • Spearheaded tech advancements as part-time CTO for a SMEs.

Eurosender

• Engineering manager (hands on) may 2022 - sep 2023 · 1 year 5 month · Luxembourg, Luxembourg

  • Completely rebuilt pricing engine, which after that able to serve 1bln pricing pairs within 250 ms before that limit was 400mln pricing pairs and it could take up to 7 seconds, resulting in 2700% performance increase.
  • Led company tech strategy & vision which resulted in resolving 50% tech debt of the company within 1.5 years.
  • Was in charge of white label architecture design, development and sales processes which resulted in additional revenue stream and successfully sold to 2 governmental clients.
  • Developed departments KPIs and Objectives with focus on team performance which improved delivery velocity more than 300%.
  • Managed departments budgeting and P&L, hires and people promotions, reduced churn rate from 30% to 5%.
  • Was in charge of product quality and features delivery, achieved 99.99% uptime per year.
  • Successfully obtained ISO27001 and ISO9001 for organisation which opened opportunities to participate in 5 mln+ € tenders.
  • Established and managed Luxembourg R&D office in total of 10 people with that successfully obtained two R&D grants total value of 5mln €.

  (People management, Leadership, Tech strategy, ROI prioritisation, KPIs development, Partnerships, Budgeting, Vendor Negotiation and Management, Stakeholder Management and Communication, Cybersecurity and Data Protection, Regulatory Compliance and Standards, Technology Evaluation and Benchmarking, Change Management)

• Team Lead (hands on) dec 2020 - may 2022 · 1 year 6 month · Kiev, Ukraine

  • Established agile IT and Product processes and developed culture of continuous improvement, which reduced devs churn rate by 85%.
  • Organised security testing and resolved all potential vulnerabilities of entire system, maintaining 100% security metrics.
  • Planned and managed entire ERP migration, including cross department requirements gathering within 4 month, reduced subscriptions costs by 300%.
    • Accounting, Helpdesk, Sales, HR, Employees,
  • Daily direct management of product team (3 people) and tech team (10 people).

  (Jira, Confluence, Clickup, Agile, Scrum, Hiring, Cybersecurity, Product Development, Team Leadership, Strategic Planning, Performance Management, Resource Allocation, Conflict Resolution, Time Management, Training and Development)

• Senior Software Engineer dec 2020 - dec 2020 10 days · Ljubljana, Slovenia

  • Integrated Microsoft Azure SSO Integration and managed employees accesses.

  (MySQL, PHP, Symfony, Python, Mongo, Docker, Nginx, Linux, AWS)

d.labs

• Technical Team Lead nov 2019 - nov 2020 · 1 year 1 month · Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Migrated entire live feed and archive from wordpress/elasticsearch to Arc (Washington Post platform) without service downtime.
    • Made migration script which handled migration of 0.5 mln entities in python.
    • Kept all articles content, media, taxonomies, pictures focus points, article layouts and structure.
    • Contributed to Swift iOS mobile app development to support new GraphQL endpoint and managed TestFlight and AppStore releases.
  • Made elixir app to detect cross server anomalies in real time.
  • Led cross-functional backend team in the development and architecture of the Business of Fashion platform with a focus on core components.
  • Quarterly and yearly roadmap development for tech debt initiatives.
  • Mentored team members in Golang and Python, organised TechScaling webinars to foster skill development and knowledge sharing within the team.
  • Backend chapter lead, organised knowledge sharing across all backend engineers within the company.

(Leadership, Technical Strategy, Team Management, Agile, Risk Management, Cybersecurity, Data Analysis, Elixir, Golang, PHP, Python, JavaScript (Node), Swift, Ruby, MySQL, Postgres, Redshift, ElasticSearch, Mongo, Redis)

• Web Engineer jan 2019 - nov 2019 · 11 month · Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Key launches:
    • 3DS Authentication for all payments, Paid trials, Gift cards
  • Migration of data warehouse from Redshift to Snowplow, enhancing data processing efficiency.
  • Integrated Braze and Thinkific platforms, optimising user engagement and learning experiences.
  • Designed and introduced B2B education bundles, significantly expanding market reach and increasing b2b retention.
  • Conducted impactful tech scaling workshops and webinars, fostering team skill development and knowledge sharing.
  • Backend chapter lead, organised knowledge sharing across all backend engineers within the company.

(MySQL, PHP, Symfony, Python, Mongo, Docker, Nginx, Linux, AWS, Golang, Elixir, Redshift, Snowplow, Kibana, Ruby, Postgres)

Sci-Tvn

• Software engineer dec 2017 - aug 2019 · 1 year 8 month · Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Successfully launched more than 3 websites within the company.
  • Websites development and hosting management (on-premise & Azure cloud)
  • External vendors and freelancers management

(Golang, Python, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, React js, React Native)

Jozef Stefan Research Institute

• Young Researcher (IT) | Software Engineer oct 2016 - sep 2017 · 1 year · Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Natural language processing algorithms research and development.
  • Web development and support for current projects.
  • Created internal portal for information exchange between departments.
  • Hosted and maintained internal on-premise server and managed databases for all department projects.

(Golang, Python, Haskell, Ruby, MySQL, Postgres, HTML, JavaScript, CSS)

FabLab

• Lector / Mentor Aug 2015 - Jul 2016 · 1 yr · Saint-Petersburg, Russia
  • Held Arduino course and students mentoring.
  • Held 3D printing course and students mentoring.

(Arduino, 3D Max, Autocad)

RD Software

• Assistant Web Developer Jun 2014 - Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Active development of drupal portal
  • Hosting and media files management

(PHP, Drupal, JavaScript, HTML)

Skills

• Software Engineering 10+ years
• Management 6+ years
• Product management 2+ years

Programming languages:

• Golang, Elixir, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript/TypeScript,
• hobby: Haskell, Swift, Scala, Rust, Lisp

Databases:

• Postgres, MySQL, Redshift, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Redis, Sqlite, DragonflyDB, Cassandra, Snowplow, Clickhouse, DuckDB, ScyllaDB

Architectures:

• Distributed Systems, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Micro-services, Auto-Scaling, Queue/Workers, Pub/Sub, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design (DDD), Event-Sourcing.

Other:

• Nginx, Docker, Vagrant, Kubernetes (k8s), AWS, VPS
• Vue3, React, LiveView, SSR
• RabbitMQ, Kafka, Sideqik, gRPC/rpc
• Jenkins, CircleCI, Buildkite and GitHub Actions for automation and CI/CD
• Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, Logstash
• Phoenix, RoR, Flask, Fiber, Fasthttp, Gin, Gorm, Symfony, Laravel, Sinatra

Management:

• Effective feedback, 360 Feedback
• Personal learning plans towards company goals
• 1-on-1 framework focusing on personal and team contributions
• Team / Department PnL and budget planning
• Conflicts resolution, team empowering workshops
• Process development and improvement

Additional Skills/Tools:

Notion, Pitch, Figma, and Miro, as well as Jira, Confluence, Monday, Linear and ClickUp.

Experienced in using Microsoft Office Suite, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and PowerBI, Jupyter + Pandas + Seaborn for statistics visualisation.

Public speaking, leadership and mentoring, effective feedback, workshops runner. Achiever, result oriented, highly reliable and trustworthy.

Education