Oleksii Starovoitenko
Engineering Lead
Prague,10
Summary
Engineering Leader with a solid background in development for over 8 years. Took ownership of several teams of 20+ people. Demonstrated expertise in diverse business domains and successfully collaborated with global teams. Dedicated to personal and professional growth, with a keen interest in team and technical management. Thrives in roles that involve close collaboration between business and technical stakeholders, driving effective outcomes. Has a Master's Degree in Information Systems and Technologies with Honors.
Overview
7
7
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Engineering Lead
Favbet Tech
6 2021 - Current
- Technical ownership of the payment business domain which is the main money flow for all companies represented by 50+ different payment integrations
- Definition of the robust service architectures, identified areas for improvement, and performance tuning techniques to optimize system efficiency and provide support of boxed solutions on 10+ different production environments.
- A pivotal force in the technical implementation of a dedicated cross-functional team of 20 software engineers grown from a team of 2 people, ensuring successful project delivery and adherence to timelines
- Expertise in conducting a thorough analysis of business features, providing valuable feedback on implementation strategies, and assessing their impact on the current system
- Prediction of possible feature cost
- Mentor and guide team members, providing strong technical leadership and fostering their professional growth and development
- Taking care of performance and salary reviews
- Responsible for the new engineers hiring from CV check till the final approval
- Organizing regular 1:1 sessions, technical synchronizations, plannings, retrospectives, department-wide discussions
- Regular team progress reporting to the corresponding Head of Engineering
- Close collaboration with engineering managers and cross-functional teams to tackle complex features and establish seamless connections between departments
- Raising company-wide improvements.
Senior Node.js Engineer
Maven Machines
9 2020 - 6 2021
- Developed an IoT-based truck management system, optimizing logistics operations and improving data average total time required for the signal processing by 250% from the original time
- Oversaw end-to-end data processing, ensuring seamless flow from device signals to targeted services using event-driven architecture, CQRS approach, and most modern AWS services
- Led the re-architecture process to enhance data consistency at each step and ready to process high-load bandwidth by refactoring and implementation of 7 microservices
- Authored technical documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing within the team
- Regularly create sequence, state, use case, and architecture diagrams with the brown bag sessions.
Part-time Technical Lead
Combinvest
02.2019 - 08.2021
- Led successful project setups from MVP to stable phase, demonstrating strong technical and team leadership skills
- Developed an innovative insurance financial solution utilizing microservices architecture, integrating with external legacy CRM using Go and MQ system
- Hired and onboarded a team of 10+ people
- Managed and provided technical guidance to a cross-functional team consisting of backend and frontend software engineers, as well as QA professionals
- Acted as the primary point of contact for product owners, ensuring effective communication and alignment between the technical team and stakeholders
- Orchestrated the deployment process, ensuring smooth and efficient releases while maintaining a high standard of code quality through automation and regular code reviews
- We proactively resolved production and deployment issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring seamless operation of critical systems.
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
IronSource
02.2019 - 09.2020
- Developed and supported an AdTech platform consisting of more than 30 services, facilitating integration between advertisers and publishers
- Full product and technical ownership of several services
- Refactored the fraud and tracking server from scratch, enhancing performance and reliability to be able to process 40-50k requests per second
- Conducted end-to-end investigations into complaints, analyzing logs and external code
- Created an admin panel for advertisers, enabling easy campaign management and updates with the minimum latency decreasing the average time for the campaign creation by 60-70%
- Participated in PR reviews, ensuring code quality and compliance by organizing regular technical sessions for knowledge sharing
- Presented more than 40 technical topics for the team including brainstorming sessions
- Mentored and onboarded new 5 team members.
Node.js Engineer
DB2 Limited
02.2018 - 02.2019
- Implemented a study platform using microservices and data migration scripts
- Introduced centralized logging approach which decreased average bug fixing time from 1 hour to 10 minutes
- Created APIs for iOS and Android applications, enabling real-time communication and improving user experience
- Organized teamwork consists of 7 engineers from the different stack
- Designed and implemented a solution for food delivery, representing 10 properly isolated microservices such as orders
- Implemented based on the event-driven architecture and achieved a test coverage of 85%.
Full-Stack Engineer
Ignite Outsourcing
01.2017 - 01.2018
- Developed an admin panel for a gateway payment solution, optimizing payment management
- Created a platform for selling cars with a streamlined business booking flow
- Took care of marketing products to improve SEO optimization and to be easily manageable by the content manager
- Decreased amount of time required for the content update 3x times by also optimization and better user experience.
Education
PhD - Information systems and technologies
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Kyiv, Ukraine 10.2021 - 9 2024
Master degree - Information systems and technologies with honours
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Kyiv, Ukraine 09.2018 - 12 2020
Bachelor degree - Systems engineering
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
Kyiv, Ukraine 09.2014 - 6 2018
Skills
Leadership: team leadership and development, cross-functional communication, presentation skills, conflict resolution, resource allocation, efficiency optimisation, crisis management, process enhancement, RCA
Project management: project lifecycle management, risk assessment, timeline and deliverables scheduling, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), WaterfallLanguages/Platforms: JavaScript/TypeScript, NodejsArchitecture: microservices (DDD), event-driven architecture, CQRS, layered architectureTechnical documentation: OpenApi, JsDoc, PlantUml, diagrams, flowcharts, UMLInfrastructure: Kubernetes, ELK, Docker, CI/CDCloud computing: AWS, Azure, Google CloudDatabases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Cosmos DBCache: RedisMessage brokers: RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, AWS SNS/SQS, AWS KinesisSoftware design: OOP, OOD, FP, design patterns, IoCData exchange API: RESTful API, GraphQL, gRPC, SOAP, websocketsTesting: Jest, Chai, Mocha, CypressCode management: GitHub, GitLab, BitbucketTimeline
PhD - Information systems and technologies
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
10.2021 - 9 2024
Part-time Technical Lead
Combinvest
02.2019 - 08.2021
Senior Full-Stack Engineer
IronSource
02.2019 - 09.2020
Master degree - Information systems and technologies with honours
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
09.2018 - 12 2020
Node.js Engineer
DB2 Limited
02.2018 - 02.2019
Full-Stack Engineer
Ignite Outsourcing
01.2017 - 01.2018
Bachelor degree - Systems engineering
National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute"
09.2014 - 6 2018
Engineering Lead
Favbet Tech
6 2021 - Current
Senior Node.js Engineer
Maven Machines
9 2020 - 6 2021