Alexander Veteran

ALEXANDER Lviv, Ukraine, Lviv, 79000, Ukraine

SHOSTAK
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DIRECTOR OF ENGINEERING / ENGINEERING MANAGER /
DELIVERY MANAGER

ABOUT ME
WORK EXPERIENCE
With over two decades of
experience, I am a results-driven
engineering leader with a strong EDETEK, INC Associate Director, Software Engineering
Oct 2021 - Mar 2025
background in IT and software • Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and
development. As the Director of equipment joined the Edetek, Inc team in March 2019 and my
Engineering at Edetek Co., I spent main goals were to build a high-performance development
six years driving innovation, team from scratch, set up internal processes as well as build
leading high-performing teams, relationships with clients.
and delivering mission-critical • I have conducted over 120 interviews and by this time my
solutions. Prior to that, I served as team consists of 8 developers, 5 QA engineers, 4 Solution
the Head of IT for a major Architects, 4 Business Analysts, and 9 Customer Experience
Ukrainian franchising restaurant team members.
chain, managing IT operations • We have produced 20 integration projects for different clients
across 54 locations for over a and stakeholders that currently live in production.
decade. My career in IT began in
• My main responsibilities are: Mapping, designing, and
2007, and since then, I have developing projects according to client vision.
continuously evolved, mastering
• Hiring, training, and managing engineering staff.
modern technologies and strategic
leadership. I have successfully led • Coordinating plans with clients to ensure that the work meets
large-scale integrations, their expectations.
spearheaded complex software • Setting goals, scoping tasks, and setting deadlines for all
projects, and served as a product projects.
owner, ensuring the seamless
• Preparing a realistic budget.
execution of business-critical
initiatives. In addition to my • Presenting plans to relevant departments and upper
technical and leadership management.
experience, I proudly served as a • Clarifying any changes to the work and limiting excess
Junior Lieutenant and Rifle spending.
Platoon Commander in the Armed • Keeping accurate and detailed paperwork and documentation
Forces of Ukraine, demonstrating of all work.
resilience and decisive leadership
• Managing inventory to ensure that the team has the supplies
in high-pressure situations. In June
they need at all times.
2023, I sustained a severe hand
injury in combat and was • Oversee front-end and back-end development teams and their
honorably discharged. This projects.
experience further strengthened • Monitor reliability and performance of all internal systems to
my ability to lead, adapt, and suggest improvements.
perform under extreme conditions. • Ensure compliance with security regulations.
I thrive in dynamic environments,
• Manage software development projects by setting
quickly analyzing challenges and
requirements, goals, and timelines.
implementing innovative solutions.
My passion for technology, • Design strategies for future development projects based on
leadership, and continuous the company's overall objectives and resources.
learning drives me to build high- • Hire engineers and coordinate their training.
impact products and teams.
• Implement innovative technologies.
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations
and tools.
SKILLS
EDETEK, INC Senior Manager, Implementation Engineering
JAVASCRIPT AND TYPESCRIPT
Mar 2019 - Oct 2021
• Create and implement scalable processes to expediently
NPM, LIBRARIES, PACKAGES, SHARED
COMPONENTS, DEPENDENCY
implement customer systems.
INJECTION • Create and implement scalable processes to integrate Edetek
APIs with various communication and data integration
GIT, BRANCHING, CONTINUOUS
DELIVERY
protocols including by not limited to APIs, EDI, SFTP, etc...
• Track time and materials to implement a project.
AWS SERVICES: EC2, SQS, LAMBDAS,
SECRET MANAGER, AURORADB, • Implement User and Integration Requirements Specifications
PIPELINES, USER\ROLE\ACCESS by working with the Customer Principles, Product
MANAGEMENT Development, Integration Architect and business partners.
APIS (REST\SOAP) • Liaise with the Product Development team and provide input
on the roadmap.
POSTGRESQL, MYSQL
• Build a team of highly effective engineers.
PHP, APACHE WEB SERVER\NGINX,
WORDPRESS
• Manage the code delivery and deployment of the integrations
to customer environments.
HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS3 • Collaborate with Solution Architects and Software Architect to
provide the best design in terms of security, scalability,
.NET
performance, and compliance.
NETWORKING

LVIV CITY COUNCIL PM\BA consulting
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
• I worked for two weeks as a consultant and business analyst.
LINKS
• I worked on the workflows of various business processes.

LinkedIn: • I have made some adjustments and improved to work with
[open contact info](look above in the "contact info" section) databases, communication equipment, and management
er-shostak-179b5214a processes.
• As a result, I found problems in business processes and
Telegram: organization. put forward proposals to improve the situation.
@sanyo4ever

NEW YORK STREET Head of IT department
PIZZA COMPANY
LANGUAGES Sep 2012 - Mar 2023 • When I came to New York Street Pizza company, a wildly
popular chain of restaurants, I was sadly surprised by the lack
ENGLISH of organization and the backwardness of many business
processes within the company.
UKRAINIAN
• Almost all aspects related to IT I had to develop from scratch.
RUSSIAN • However, during the period of my work, I managed to establish
effective processes and implemented new ideas for company
development, which helped tremendously increase the profits
of the company and to open 30 new restaurants across
COURSE Ukraine.
• Since I managed to find common ground and achieve the
PROJECT MANAGEMENT confidence of the trademark owner, I have allocated funds for
COURSE substantial reforms inside the firm.
ITEA, LVIV, DMYTRO • My initiatives showed their effectiveness and returned
LOZOVYTSKY financial investments in 4 months.
SEP 2017 - JAN 2018 • For further development, the company owner and I invested
the percentage of profit I brought.

PERSONAL DETAILS DIM COMPANY Lead System Administrator
Sep 2007 - Sep 2012
• The DIM company has more than 150 employees and is the
Date of birth leader in media advertisement in the western region of
01 Oct 1987 Ukraine.
• The company has the following departments and projects:
own newspaper; printing establishment where it produces 80
publications; web portal; 3 real estate agencies.
• My main duties: I was responsible for client-server hardware
and software, 56 computers, Windows and Linux OS based,
development of video advertising projects in supermarkets and
at the railway station, the development of the outdoor audio
project; web-projects development.
• I worked with software and hardware solutions, maintenance
and improvement of networks of varying complexity, repair
equipment, and stuff, a variety of technical solutions.
• I made the design of promotional products: newspapers,
magazines, billboards, leaflets, flyers, web design.
• And, by the way, coding and programming websites, Joomla,
WordPress, Javascript, PHP, MySQL.

ANIDA LTD IT Specialist
COMPANY
Mar 2007 - Dec 2007 • Anida LTD Company - the distributor of alcoholic beverages in
Ukraine.
• My main duties: I was responsible for: 16 computers, second
rank network, domain controller WIN2003 + AD, 1c, made
service PDA based on Palm OS.
• I was responsible for the maintenance of all LANs, servers, and
peripherals.

UKRAINIAN ARMED Commander of the platoon, infantry
FORCES
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023 Served as a Junior Lieutenant and Rifle Platoon Commander in
the Armed Forces of Ukraine, leading a unit in combat
operations. Responsible for tactical command, unit coordination,
and operational readiness in high-intensity environments.
Successfully managed personnel, logistics, and mission execution
under extreme conditions. In June 2023, sustained a severe hand
injury during active duty and was subsequently discharged from
military service. Demonstrated resilience, leadership, and
adaptability in challenging circumstances.

EDUCATION

TERNOPIL Specialist
NATIONAL
TECHNICAL • Department of Computer Information Systems and Software
UNIVERSITY. I. Engineering, Department of Computer Science Specialist -
PUL'UJA specialist degree
Ternopil, Ukraine
2009

TERNOPIL Specialist
NATIONAL
TECHNICAL • Department of Computer Information Systems and Software
UNIVERSITY. I. Engineering, Department of Computer Science Specialist - a
PUL'UJA bachelor degree
Ternopil, Ukraine
2008