Team Lead, Head of Engineering, CTO

Experience

I have 17 years of commercial experience in software development.

That includes leading teams. Recently, as a CTO at a startup, I organised work of an R&D team to develop and successfully launch a product in 7 months. Before that I have worked on many other projects. For example, an adaptive online learning platform for Bloomberg and The Economist used by students around the world for exam preparation.

Skills

Python JavaScript Django Django REST framework FastAPI Flask Celery Redis PostgreSQL MySQL REST JSON-RPC blockchain microservices AWS GCP Parsing Chat bots Automation

Highlights

— Leading teams: planning and organising the work of the team, doing code review, pair programming, and mentoring
— Software development: caching, task queues, unit tests, image processing, encoding, API, parsing, multithreaded and asynchronous applications
— Computer security: testing computer systems for vulnerabilities, protecting them from potential attacks, and planning secure infrastructure

Looking for

Experienced in planning the development of new projects, working on the architecture, preparing the requirements, and writing specifications. I enjoy teaching people to code and doing code review. I have been writing in-depth documentation that allowed new people to easily join the project.