Олексій

Oleksiy Chykunov
Senior Technical IT Recruiter

Location: Ukraine, Ternopil
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WORK EXPIRIENCE:
March 2024 – until now Stoplist.AI – ATS for recruitment – Startup https://stoplist.ai/
Co-Founder, CEO, Product owner
While studying at TNTU on software developer, I decided to implement my own idea — a custom Applicant Tracking
System (ATS) designed for LinkedIn-based recruiting workflows. The system allows us to connect an unlimited number
of freelance sourcers to our agency's job openings, ensuring that no freelancer can contact the same candidate on
LinkedIn more than once.

I assembled a team and started from team of students, but later I gather the team of five software developers and a
business analyst, and I created a basic design and development roadmap as Product Owner.

We started out as a typical early-stage startup with no formal processes, but I took the lead in organizing the
development workflow. Over time, the team adopted agile methodology and began working in sprints.

Currently, we have a few clients, but the funding for software development is running out. At one point, I received an
offer from a some Ukrainian Venture Fund to invest $150,000 in this the project, but I declined due to concerns about
the legal terms in their agreement

Now the ATS fully supported and my technical co-founder fix requests from existing clients and improve user
experience.

Oct.2019- until now IT WorldWide Recruitment Agency. – IT-recruitment agency https://itwwr.com/
Owner / Recruitment Team Lead/ Senior Recruiter
I opened my own IT recruitment agency where I start to work with couple Senior IT Recruiters and starting to recruit IT
developers.
I made teachnical researchers and I am working as Business Development Manager and as Talent Acquisition
manager at the same time.
I have had clients from Thailand, EU, Ukraine, and closing IT vacancies with candidates from all over the world (UK,
Armenia, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Thailand, Philippines, Vietnam, Poland, etc.).
I was involved in interviewing process so all candidates who my agency closed was interviewed by me personally, and
I use researchers as helpers to make more interviews with candidates.
I organized learning programs for entry-level researchers and recruiters to achieve expected result from their job.

In agency used to work up to 8 recruiters, and we used to have up to 30 vacancies from clients in our workflow.
Recruitment Tools: LinkedIn RecruiterLite, Turbohiring, Google X-Ray, “own huge Data Base of candidates from
Ukraine”, Facebook, Cleverstaff ATS, Stoplist ATS

Apr.2022-Sep.2022 NDA, (USA) – Outstaffing IT company
Recruitment Team Lead
Responsibilities:
• Implementation of ATS system for the company
• Organization of team-work of 3 recruiters and 5 researchers, and checking the results of the recruitment team
• Introduced and indulged “cold calling” technique to recruiters over messaging, as it is more effective and had higher
response rate from candidates
• Verifying which recruiters provide not relevant candidates and making decisions about replacements of such recruiter
• Improving the quality of candidates which was provided to clients of the company
• Making the structure of IT-recruitment department
• Managing the entire recruitment cycle (managing the team of researchers, making hiring interviews, managing the
team of recruiters, daily checking of all candidates in the recruitment process from all recruiters of the company,
verifying the quality of candidates and approving the candidates before the sending to clients)
• Teaching researchers the best practices of research to faster improving the results of research’s work and how to find
the better candidate for the direct vacancy
• Improving Job Descriptions of vacancies and making Job Descriptions clear for candidates and nice to read
Reason of leaving – company has luck of vacancies, I build all the process and they decided that now when all works
they can use 3-times cheaper recruiter to work with all the process.
Recruitment Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, Cleverstaff ATS (transferred all processes from Zoho to Cleverstaff),
Turbohiring
Jul.2021- Mar.2022 Emex Software Limited (Ireland) – Product IT company. https://emex.com/
Recruitment Team Lead / Human Resource Specialist
One of my partners have vacancy for their startup in Sustainability domain and I was so exited to do something to
made our world cleaner and made some influence on reducing CO2 emission so I join this project

Responsibilities:
• Managing the entire recruitment cycle (sourcing, identifying, evaluating, closing)
• Providing active sourcing of candidates according to the vacancy’s requirements, using various channels
• Closing the vacancies of company, according to recruitment plan
• Multitask working and organizing all recruitment process for company
• Helping with onboarding of newcomers
• Making 1x1 meetings with developers, who was in progress of probation period to manage they expectations
and happiness
• Making the offers to the candidates
• Participation in technical interviews with representatives of the technical team, where I found some interesting
technical questions for myself.
• Making technical pre-screening with the candidates on my own, to save the time of the technical team.
• Closed 18 Senior and Middle vacancies in 8 month.

Hiring in Ukraine was stopped and 80% of Ukrainian team was fired because of war in Ukraine.

Recruitment Tools: LinkedIn Recruiter Lite, Cleverstaff ATS, Turbohiring, Google X-Ray, Google Docs, “own huge Data
Base of candidates from Ukraine” and I closing vacancies with the direct phone calls to such a candidate’s from own DB

Jun.2018 – Jul.2019 Recruit Alliance, Kyiv, Ukraine – Recruitment Agency, IT Department
International Business Development Manager
Responsibilities:
• Searching for new customers: different IT-companies from all over the world
• Negotiating with clients at all stages. Maintaining all recruiting activities
• Attracting new foreign customers to the company and helping to the customers to find IT developers of any level from Ukraine or
from countries where a customer is located (selling the services of recruiting developers);
• Organization of the work of the team of recruiters - with the goal of closing of client positions in the searching of developers.
• Closing positions as IT recruiter – when I have had low recruitment team resources.
• Searching IT developers in LinkedIn as recruiter, on clients vacancies, interviewing the candidates and organizing Technical
Interviews with clients.
• Making job offers to the candidates
2012 - 2019 Different companies:
IT-event sales manager – 2+ yrs
Head of remote Sales Department (FinTech) – 1,5 yrs.;
Sales Manager (IT services) – 1 yr.;
Director of Exhibition Metallurgy and Mechanical Engineering. – 2,5 yrs.
IT-department – Digitalization Program of plant – Aluminum plant – 1 yr.
Head of pressure Department – Aluminum plant – 1 yr
Languages Ukrainian (Native),
English (Upper-Intermediate)
Education Donetsk National Technical University 01.09.2004-18.01.2010
2004-2010 Master's degree. Physics and Metallurgical faculty.
“Metal forming and Nanotechnology in Metallurgy”. – graduated with the excellence.
Education Ternopil Ivan Puluj National Technical University 01.09.2023-26.06.2025
2023-2025 Bachelor’s degree. Software Development

Filled position (Middle to Senior levels):

Fullstack: React.JS/C#/.Net, Angular2+/C#/.Net, Java/React.JS, React.JS/Node.JS, Python/React.JS
Back-End: C#/.Net, Java, Python (AI/ML), Node.JS, PHP, Golang, C++/Embedded
Front-End: React.JS, Angular2+, Angular.JS, Vue.JS
Mobile: iOS, Android, iOS/Android, Flutter
DevOps: Azure, AWS
QA/AQA: Manual QA’s, Java (Selenide/Selenium), Python
Other: CEO, CTO, AI/ML Engineer, Robotic Integrator, Business Analyst, Cyber Security Engineer, Support Managers,
Business Development Managers, Technical Writer, Media Buyer
Non-IT Roles: Managers for Call-Centers, Sales-managers, Translators, Welders (for Oil&Gas industry EU – using Facebook
campaigns)