Formed an SRE team from several (previously) backend engineers.

The Team delivered so far:

• Internal PaaS for developers and QA. 40K+ cloud devbox provisions in 12 mon with 99% success rate. Positive impact on the organization's SDLC time.

• Consolidation and complete re-engineering of CI/CD pipelines: Jenkins, Drone 0.8, DIY -> GitHub Actions. Self-hosted runners in Kubernetes.

• Observability platform for production and dev environments composed of interconnected DataDog, GrafanaCloud, and Sentry. Integrated toolset for developers: metrics, logs, traces, profiles.

• Performance optimization project. Identified bottlenecks in systems, and re-engineered them for better performance and throughput. Achieved x2-10 performance gains in content ingest pipelines and high-loaded API endpoints.

Burnt out. Stepped away from the PM role, and returned to engineering.

Built a short-living project team whose goal was to modernize the exitsing large Python codebase. Drove the team toward creating a holistic view of the application. The team has refactored tens of thousands lines of code, improving the internal quality of the core platform.

Personal contribution in the project:

• Produced architectural diagrams on systems, layers, and components.

• Wrote API design document: semantics, features evolution, binding to implementation: flask, pydantic, peewee ORM.

• Wrote concurrency guide, outlining recommended patterns for corotines (gevent), threading and multiprocessing in the Python backend.

• As a showcase of the new foundation, refactored Workspaces API

I have participated in a small product discovery team, whose objective was to define the scope of the company’s new product and deliver the MVP. I wore both product and engineer hats. After 6 months, we successfully launched the new product https://www.scalr.com/

After the launch, lead a feature team. Did user research, wrote PRD, oversaw UI/UX design, and engineering execution. The team built several features from the ground: terraform cloud cost estimation framework, and catalog of terraform apps.

Overseen 3 backend teams. Launched several new sub-products targeted at the enterprise market, namely: cloud cost optimization, Kubernetes infrastructure management, and cloud credentials audit. Those new products helped Scalr CMP to win the competition over other vendors and land several Fortune 500 companies as customers.

Advocated organization delivery transformation from DIY process to Agile methodology. Together with HR hired agile coaches, organized workshops, and designed new teams layouts. Wrote the new delivery process document. As a result of our joint efforts with team managers, the lead time was reduced x2.