Александр

Vlasov Aleksandr (Engineering manager)

Location: Portugal
Telegram: https://t.me/A_l_e_x_V_l_a_s_o_v
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Objective

I have more than 10 years experience in management of tech development teams, in setting up new
projects, in supporting and refactoring old ones, so I want to:
- find a position with challenging and interesting tasks
- learn some new technologies
- work with good and smart people for an excellent company

Summary

Programming languages (CMS/CMF/FW):
NodeJS (Express, Koa, Nest, Fastify)
GoLang (gin)
PHP (Zend Framework, Yii, Symfony, Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, WebAsyst ShopScript)
Python (Django)
JavaScript (ReactJS, AngularJS, Socket.io, jQuery, extJS)
HTML/CSS(Bootstrap, Material)
SQL: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MS SQL, FireBase, InterBase, Access
NoSQL: MongoDB, Redis, RIAK
Queues: RabbitMQ, AWS (SQS, SNS), IBM WebSphereMB, BullMQ
Cache: Memcache
Amazon AWS: EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB, Aurora, RDS
Infrastructure: Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, Argo, Vault, Jenkins
BigData: OLAP, Pentaho, Data warehouse, MapReduce, Tableau, PowerBI
Virtual servers: Nginx, Apache
VCS: GIT, Mercurial, SVN
Tracing: Jaeger
Monitoring and alerting: Grafana, Kibana, Zabbix, Sentry, NewRelic
Languages: Ukrainian and Russian - native, English - B2
Experience

Engineering manager 2020 - 2025 FavBet TECH (favbet.ua favbet.com favbet.ro favbet.hr)
over 500 employees; made a betting and gambling platform for customers worldwide

developed and managed 3 teams and different projects:

1) payment service for the platform (integrated a lot of payment systems: H2H, Redirect, Crypto, Terminals, Coupons, Bank
Transfers)
the team: 1 TL, 6 developers, 2 mQA, 1 aQA, 2 DevOps, 2 BA, 1 PM

Achievements:
- made reverse engineering from Erlang and PHP projects
- built the project in Docker, Kuber, AWS
- set up documentation (draw.io, PlantUML), logs, monitoring, alerts, tests
- improved integration speed of a new payment system from 1-2 months to 1 week
- improved stability of all payment system integrations (RCA, retry mechanisms, payment balancer)
- speed up of payment processing (up to x10)
- built clear technical roadmap and fixed it step-by-step
- mentored colleagues (1 junior-senior, 2 middle – senior, 1 senior - lead)

2) custom CRM system micro-services
- especially bonus system
- 3rd party integrations (Optimove, Unisender, Infobip, Amplitude, Smartico, SMSo)
- affiliate program integration
the team: 1 TL, 3 developers, 2 mQA, 2 aQA, 2 DevOps, 2 BA, 1 PM

Achievements:
- fixed the most important architectural problems (in code, DB, RMQ)
- built the project in Docker, Kuber, AWS
- set up documentation (PlantUML), logs, monitoring, alerts, tests
- made reverse engineering from legacy GoLang projects
- improved stability of all marketing integrations and bonus processing
- speed up of bonus processing (from 200/s to 5k/s events)
- built clear technical roadmap and fixed it step-by-step
- mentored colleagues (2 middle – senior, 1 frontend - backend)

3) business automation service (e.g. customer journey service)
the team: 1 TL, 3 developers, 2 mQA, 1 aQA, 2 DevOps, 2 BA, 1 PM

Achievements:
- a lot of Q&A sessions with stakeholders, BAs, designers, admin panel frontend developers
- investigated different business rules engines, chose one, built and tested the concept, made a demo (saved minimum 3 months of
development)
- won the project development - Erlang (min 6 months for PoC) and PHP (min 5 months for PoC)
- provided technical solution for few stages (PoC, MVP, v1), included all documentation in C4 (PlantUML)
- made PoC in short term with a minimum dev/QA resource (1,5 months)
- setup team quickly for MVP and done it in short term (3 months)

We used NodeJS, GoLang as a back-end
PostgreSQL, MongoDB as databases, Redis as a storage and some cached data
We used RabbitMQ for queues and async synchronisation between services
Started on some projects and implemented DDD architecture
Writing auto-tests NodeJS (Jest, Cucumber)
We used AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch)
Tracing (Jaeger), Monitoring and alerting (Grafana, Kibana, Zabbix)
Our VCS was a GIT (GitLab CI / Argo CD)
We worked and planed in JIRA with SAFe, Portfolio, Agile dashboard, Tempo, Confluence etc.
Team lead 2014 - 2020 ZEO Alliance (zeoalliance.com mackeeper.com zoomsupport.com)
over 500 employees; sell software and services for customers worldwide. (The main products are MacKeeper and
ZoomSupport)
developed:
1) internal portal for all workers (with timetable, events, kitchen and etc)
2) custom CRM system and the one biggest part of it
2.1) migrate company’s CRM to Sales Force
3) payment provider proxy to process orders by many payment systems
4) telephony service (frontend as a plug-in for Chrome and plug-in for Sales Force) and back-end on GoLang and PHP (symphony +
Sonata Admin)
5) support and develop new micro-services on back-end for MacKeeper and new other software

We used GoLang, PHP (Symfony, ZF) as a back-end and MySql(Aurora), MongoDB and DynamoDB as a databases, Redis as a
session storage and some cached data for the main part of our projects
Implemented DDD architecture with ValueObjects, CQRS and GRPC
Writing auto-tests GoLang (Baloo, Testify, Mockery), PHP (phpunit, behat), Java (Selenium)
We used AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, CloudFront, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS, DynamoDB and Aurora)
Local infrastructure on Docker, with docker-compose and deploy some micro-services on ECS
OLAP, Pentaho, Data warehouse, MapReduce, Tableau, PowerBI

Team lead 2012 - 2014 MTI corp (mti.ua samsungshop.com.ua shop.lenovo.ua protoria.ua intertop.ua)
over 500 employees; IT-software Manufacturing (The biggest distributor of computers and IT components,
telecommunication, networking, multimedia products in Ukraine, stores: Protoria, Lenovo, Samsung, Intertop, Plato)
We used PHP (ZF) as a back-end and MySql and Oracle as a databases and Bootstrap, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery as a front-
end for the main part of our projects
We used IBM WebSphereMB for integration our projects with each other and with the ERP system
We used ExtJs as front-end in the Intertop project
We developed Info-kiosk by NodeJs (node-webkit, express) and MSSql

Senior PHP Developer 2011 - 2012 Pimentos (pimentos.com.ua)
~20 IT employees (web studio)
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSS
We used different CMS and CMF such as Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, WebAsyst, ShopScript and other

Senior PHP Developer 2010 - 2011 Qalibriti (qalibriti.com qsimply.com )
~20 IT employees (advertising system)
PHP (Drupal), MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSS

Head of sector by developing commercial projects 2010 InformSun (swbworld.com)
~250 IT employees (multilevel marketing)
PHP (Symfony), MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSS

Co-founder 2006 - 2010 International dating agency (flavouroflove.net)
~20 IT employees (International dating agency)
PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (jQuery), HTML, CSS

Education

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kiev, Ukraine) End date 2010
Master degree (Management of innovation and investment), Faculty of Economics specialist

Computer academy "Step" (Kiev, Ukraine) End date 2007
WEB developer, CG designer specialist