Artem Pokrasenko

Artem Pokrasenko

Executive R&D Leader

15+ Years in software development
9+ Years in leadership
100+ Professionals managed

Working directly with C-level and business owners, I play a pivotal role in company transformation — from architecture strategy and team building to delivery and compliance.

Areas of Expertise

R&D Team Analysis
Architecture & Product Quality
Workflow Design
Delivery & Project Management
Mediation
Performance Management

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Career

Head of Cloud Development

Virtuozzo

2023 – Present

Lead strategic cloud architecture design and roadmap execution, aligning technical solutions with business goals. Manage a distributed team across Spain, Turkey, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Georgia.

  • Due Diligence: prepared the technical organisation for due diligence
  • OKR Implementation: linked R&D efforts with business goals across the company
  • Privacy & Compliance: established GDPR-compliant privacy-by-design workflows
  • Process Improvement: built and introduced an SDLC, unlocked AI tools, improved quality and productivity
  • Led the development and launch of a Cloud Management Platform

Head of Engineering

NDA FinTech Startup

2022 – 2023

Led 100+ people in a crypto FinTech startup — P2P marketplace, crypto payment acquirer, USDT/BTC/TON transfers via messengers. Built a distributed remote team of 42 engineers from scratch across EMEA: reduced attrition by 40%, delivery time by ~2.5×, costs by ~30%.

Kotlin, JVM, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, Redis, Python, Blockchain, Kafka, Microservices

Engineering Manager

Miro

2020 – 2022

Built and managed core teams (25+ people) for the real-time collaboration platform. Worked directly with the CTO on architecture vision and roadmap — led transformation of an 11-year-old system resulting in 30% infrastructure cost reduction and 3× performance increase.

AWS, JVM, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, gRPC, Netty, Low-latency, Actor Model, Monolith→Services

Engineering Manager

Ingram Micro

2015 – 2020

Progressed from overseeing one developer to leading two teams (15+ members) within a multi-tier commerce OSS/BSS platform. Focus on system architecture, delivery, and people development.

React, Java EE, PHP, C++, Python, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Docker, Kubernetes

Senior Software Developer

Parallels

2012 – 2015

Went from intern to senior developer in 3 years across QA, Development, and Operations. Worked on Plesk in VPS and Parallels Plesk Automation.

Python, PHP, C++, Bash, C#, PostgreSQL, Virtualisation

Technical Support Engineer

Internet Provider

2009 – 2012

Started in IT combining university knowledge with hands-on network configuration, monitoring, subnet management, and alert systems.

Education

  • Bauman Moscow State Technical University
  • Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science

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