Director of Software Development
National System of Payment Cards, JSC
Drive software development teams forward to the best results.
March 2023 - Present
Deputy Chief Officer of Software Development
National System of Payment Cards, JSC
As a Deputy Head of SW Dev, I was responsible for bringing strategic roadmaps to tactical technical tasks
and for release them to clients.
Duties:
Leading development teams: plan resources and needed skills, initiate hiring, motivate etc.
Business and system analysis: review business strategic tasks and split them to main teams epics.
Build project plans for development teams.
Develop, review and improve IT architecture for projects: drive a community of architects, works with
Tech Leads to build and control architectural artifacts.
Reviewing a technology stack, makes PoC for new system software and brings new perspective technologies
to the company.
Plan and budget procurement of 3'd party software and hardware for development tasks, report to CIO, CEO.
Main skills, used for the job:
People management: couching, mentoring, motivation, stimulation (including KPI) etc.
Project management: work in both agile and waterfall concepts.
Usage Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket).
Also:
Good in linux administration (Centos/Ubuntu, Nginx, Docker, Redis, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, MySQL etc.)
Programming experience (Python, PHP, PL/SQL)
Experience:
Integration of different product teams in a through processes of architecture and software development
Participate in teams transformation from service teams to LeSS (Large scaled SCRUM)
Build teams for new company projects according skills "heatmaps" (skills requirements)
Key role in developing of architecture for Cashback service, Mobile payment platform, Transport
processing platform, Fast payment system etc.
January 2023 - March 2023
Contractor - IT Consultant and Architect
National System of Payment Cards, JSC
Provided IT services for the company.
Made analisys for new and existing systems and architecture solutions for different projects.
September 2022 - January 2023
Deputy Head of Software Development Center
Head of IT Projects Department
Lead IT Project Manager
National System of Payment Cards, JSC
Started as a IT PM in such projects as Loyalty platform, 3DS service, Samsung Pay and MIR integration.
Developed plenty of IT archtectural solutions for NSPK projects.
Implemented Docker containers infrastructure in the company.
Improved CI/CD prcesses and platform.Boosted releases from <200 to >500 per year.
February 2016 - May 2022
CEO, CTO
Intelligent Line, LLC
VoiP platform development.
Linux administration (bash, Perl, OS installation, daemons management)
Cloud infrastructure distribution (KVM in ProxMox Hypervisor)
Software development (Perl, SQL, Apache ActiveMQ)
Telco development (Sofia SIP stack, TDM-to-SIP gateway support)
And support all the infrastructure and software.
Found investors, gathered a software development team, got licenses from government, established deals
to connect network to PSTN etc.
Controlled and managed the budget, timeline, deadline.
Issued marketing strategy, found different approaches to sell the branded services.
Produced projects plans, scheduled milestones, gathered weekly reports and managed the staff.
February 2013 - May 2016
Interconnect billing department IT manager
Mobile TeleSystems, JSC
Joined a startup project for centralization interconnect billing and MTS Russia settlements with
telecom partners.
Main responsibilities:
Operation team leadership: hiring system administrators, improve team skills set, mentoring,
controlling performance etc.
Linux administration (bash, Perl, OS installation, daemons management)
Cloud infrastructure distribution (VMWare ESXi)
Software development (PHP, Oracle PL\SQL)
Developed regulation instruments, hired specialists, provided IT infrustructure readiness and
works allocation between department staff. Combined management with IT skills and provided highly
effective works.
Managed 15 employees directly, 10 employees of different regions of Russia in functionality and an
outsorcing division.
My department provides all the services for:
billing telecommunication parnters
check bills from telecommunication parnters
carry out dispuits solving.
I've got strong skills in all levels negotiations (company management, vendors, worldwide partners),
people managment, time management, ITSM.
Joined many projects as an expert.
Complited my own projects in MTS:
Software for controling and monitoring service providers fraud (my own develop)
Interconnect billing IS and processes implementation
Insource VAS platform operations with cost decrease
Extention of billing system functionality
Worked with such software as:
ITC by "Peter-Service OJSC"
HP OV Service Manager
SAS MIS Enterprise OLAP System
Enterprise Architect
MS Project
HP/Mercury ITGC
Development technologies:
PHP, Perl (mojolicious). Oracle Pl\SQL, MySQL Percona cluster, PostgreSQL cluster (slony+pgpool).
Administering MySQL Databases, tuning and optimizing queries. Building Databases infrastructure:
cluster software and hardware, LVM strategy, KVM virtualization.
May 2005 - February 2016
