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Artem Pokrasenko
Working directly with C-level and business owners, I play a pivotal role in the companyโs transformation.
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Head of Cloud Development | Virtuozzo | 2023 – Present
As Head of Cloud Development, I lead strategic cloud architecture design and roadmap execution, aligning technical solutions with business goals. I manage a diverse, distributed team across multiple countries, including Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Georgia, fostering innovation and collaboration. My role also encompasses directing complex, company-wide projects from inception to completion, ensuring they meet strategic objectives and market demands.
Major achievements:
– Due Diligence Preparation: Successfully prepared the technical organization for due diligence
– OKR Implementation: Implemented an OKR-like goal-setting system across the company, linking development efforts with business goals and performance metrics.
– Privacy and Compliance: Established GDPR-compliant privacy by design R&D workflows from the ground up.
– Process Improvement: Built and introduced a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), unlocking AI tools for the organization and improving product quality and team productivity.
– Product Development: Led the development and launch of a Cloud Management Platform
– Customer Engagement: Forged and maintained relationships with top customers, advancing the on-premise version of the cloud through direct engagement and tailored solutions.
Areas of Expertise
Head of Engineering | NDA FinTech Startup | 2022 โ 2023
I led a team of 100+ people in a crypto startup within the FinTech sector.
Weโve developed a high-loaded web product for the mobile/web world with a P2P marketplace, crypto payment acquirer, and the ability to transfer money (e.g. USDT, BTC, TON) between users through messengers.ย
Reporting directly to the CTO, defined a long-term technology strategy and successfully led execution against it. Built an effective delivery process reducing delivery time (reduced ~2.5 times), the precision of estimates (โ of projects are in time), reducing costs (~30% cost reduction). Introduced a new technology landscape and architecture, improving system stability, scalability and performance (up to ~10 times increase)
Built a distributed remote/hybrid team of 42 engineers from scratch around EMEA, including the hiring strategy, negotiating complex relocations and salaries, and drawing development trajectories for teams and employees. Reduced the attrition rate by 40%
Technical details: Kotlin, JVM, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Python, Blockchain, RebbitMQ, Cloudflare, Kafka, Event Base system, Microservices
Engineering Manager | Miro | 2020-2022
I built from scratch and managed core teams at Miro, up to 25+ people, who built a platform for real-time collaboration on the whiteboard (from board loading and app communications to support simultaneous work on the board). We designed and developed a collaboration layer on top of which other teams built their own features.
Working directly with the CTO, I prepared an architecture vision and a roadmap, and led the transformation of an 11-year-old system according to priorities within a growing environment, and constantly scaling the team. As a result, we have a 30% infrastructure cost reduction and performance increase up to 3 times.
Hired and built teams in 2 hubs (Germany and Armenia) from scratch, organized their work processes and achieved the highest eNPS among the foundation team. Successfully performed a relocation project for a team to a new hub with keeping engineers and their performance.
Technical details: AWS, JVM, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, gRPC, Netty, Load balance and scale, Fabio, S3, API Gateways, Low-latency system, Concurrency processes, Event Bus, Lock, Actor Model pattern, Authorisation system, Scaling System, EventDriven, Monolith-> Services transformation. C4, UML.
Engineering Manager | Ingram Micro | 2015 – 2020
I progressed from overseeing a single developer to leading two development teams (15+ members) within the context of a multi-tier commerce OSS/BSS platform. This platform catered to all-encompassing everything-as-a-service solutions and can be explored at https://www.cloudblue.com/cloudblue-saas/.
During my tenure at Ingram Micro, which acquired Parallels, I demonstrated expertise in developing and managing diverse teams and products, ranging from intricate reseller marketplaces to expansive platform-to-platform unified migrations. My primary focus was on system architecture, seamless delivery, and people development.
Technical details: SPA, JS, React, Java EE, Php, C++, Python, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Selenium, Cucumber, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, DNS, and others.
Senior Software Developer | Parallels | 2012 – 2015
Over the span of 3 years, I went from an intern to the role of a senior software developer. Throughout this journey, I gained an extensive experience in Quality Assurance, Development, and Operations areas. I worked on two products:ย
โ Plesk in VPS (Automation of VM creation with Plesk installation and its management)
โ Parallels Plesk Automation (The solution caters to the needs of small and medium-sized shared hosting businesses, offering scalability and versatility)
Technical details: Python, PHP, C++, VBS, Bash, C#, Virtualisation, PostgreSQL
Technical Support Engineer |ย Internet Provider of LE | 2009-2012
I started working in the IT by combining the knowledge that I received at the university with hands-on experience. My role encompassed a range of tasks such as configuration, monitoring management, subnet configuration, and establishing alert mechanisms. I also communicated closely with the network engineers responsible for small districts networks.Education
โ Bauman Moscow State Technical University
โ Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science
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