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Oleksii Starovoitenko

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

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Timeline

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
Oleksii StarovoitenkoEngineering Lead