about

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As a passionate problem-solver, I love to use modern technology to address customer-centric challenges. I create, modernize, optimize and scale technical processes that matter. To drive success, I focus on delivering key outcomes, building performant teams, and quickly adapting to new learnings and new insights into action.


I am passionate about software development, engineering management, solution and system design, agile, always aiming to create fast, robust and solid solutions: high-performing, resilient, and secure systems that exceed expectations. I am a dedicated tech professional, committed to driving innovation, improving efficiency, and reliable solutions in every project I undertake


My diverse skill set, which includes project management, process automation, and both software and infrastructure architecture, allows me to approach projects holistically, ensuring seamless integration of all elements. I am committed to creating adaptable solutions that can meet the ever-changing demands of the market.


𝗜 𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀, 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀. 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸 𝗼𝗳 𝗺𝘆 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜 𝗱𝗼.


While my current focus is on solution architecture and engineering management, my professional journey has also provided me with valuable experience in the E-learning domain. This experience has enhanced my versatility and added continuous education passion to my persona.


In addition to my technical skills, I bring strong business acumen to the table. I understand the intricacies of organizations, their stakeholders, and their long and short-term mission goals. I am not just a team player, but also a leader who can take charge when necessary. One of my key strengths is the ability to communicate complex issues in simple terms, tailoring my approach to suit the audience and their skills.


𝗜 𝗲𝗻𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗺𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲, 𝘀𝗼 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵, 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀, 𝗔𝗜, 𝘀𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲.


/skills

Solution ArchitectureAWS CloudSystem ArchitectureStrategic PlanningTeam DevelopmentSoftware DevelopmentDevSecOpsMobile DevelopmentWeb Development

/domains

CloudFinTechE-LearningE-Commerce

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

AWS Knowledge: Serverless

AWS Knowledge: Serverless

AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials

AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials

Well-Architected Proficient

Well-Architected Proficient

AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation

AWS Partner: Sales Accreditation

AWS Partner: Technical Accredited

AWS Partner: Technical Accredited

AWS Educate Getting Started with Security

AWS Educate Getting Started with Security

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Essentials

AWS Partner: Cloud Economics Essentials

AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials

AWS Partner: Generative AI Essentials

AWS Partner: SAP on AWS Essentials

AWS Partner: SAP on AWS Essentials

AWS Knowledge: Block Storage

AWS Knowledge: Block Storage

AWS Knowledge: File Storage

AWS Knowledge: File Storage

AWS Knowledge: Object Storage

AWS Knowledge: Object Storage

AWS Knowledge: Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

AWS Knowledge: Data Protection & Disaster Recovery

AWS Knowledge: Data Migration

AWS Knowledge: Data Migration

AWS Knowledge: Storage Core

AWS Knowledge: Storage Core

AWS Knowledge: Storage Technologist

AWS Knowledge: Storage Technologist

AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials 2024

AWS Partner: Migration Sales Essentials 2024

/experience

Solutions Architect / Engineering Manager

Silk Tech (ex-Nexus JSC) | Dec 2021 - Today

Recent years, I was mostly involved in designing enterprise solutions, supervised development teams, R&D and managing development teams. Created solution designs for HA, elasticity, fault tolerance, disaster recovery, cost optimization, and multi-vendor organization structure with automations.

  • Adopted AWS APN Partner path and AWS partner status within the organization
  • Improved AWS accounts organizations, lead migration towards multiple account automated environment instead of single account infrastructure.
  • Implemented DevSecOps solutions and Central Security management, using AWS Control Tower, Security OU, AWS Security Hub, AWS Organization, AWS Config, GuardDuty, SonarQube, OWASP, Macie and Custom CloudFormation stacks to BYOS (Bring your own security) pipeline.
  • Instilled a culture of continuous education in the team. Conducted 6 workshops.
  • Designed disaster recovery strategies for critical system parts, using warm-standby strategy. Target RPO/RTO – 5 minutes.
  • Re-designed loan application processes with serverless solutions, single table designs, state machines orchestrations
  • Migrated PHP onboarding workflow service to serverless Node.js/Typescript service
  • Took part in tender reviews, contributed findings around OLAP engine limitations, K8S elasticity problems for customer-managed clusters, helping the company save tender costs
  • Took part in E-commerce project solution design, serverless solutions, pub/sub event delivery solutions.
  • Designed solutions that utilize various sources for ETL crawlers and offload partitioned parquet gzip tables into the company Data Lake for further BI analysis.
  • Migrated bank transaction processing and injection modules to AWS serverless (AWS SAM, DynamoDB, RDS, etc).

Co-Founder / Team Lead

R2 Software | Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

Managed software development team and full SDLC. Continuous development, integration, deployment and maintenance of various E-learning and E-commerce solutions.

  • Successfully delivered an E-learning platform for the National University of Uganda
  • Successfully delivered an E-learning platform for the Parliament of Georgia
  • Successfully delivered E-commerce solutions and mobile applications for various Georgian customers
  • Designed HA elastic cloud-based solution (cluster) on AWS Cloud
  • Completed Pre-sales and gained customers for Accounting, Reporting, Payments, and CRM solutions integrations
  • Developed software solutions for complex enrolment processes, content migration, attendance management, and completion tracking

Team Lead of E-learning Development

Envirotech International College (Australian VET sector) | Jan 2016 – Sep 2021

Initially joined to re-design existing software architecture, but once succeeded moved towards System and Solutions design. In this role, I began to dive deep into AWS Cloud and its components, integration, cloud design patterns, etc. Pushed the company towards quality control and CI/CD adoption, and at later stages to process automation. Applied releases, integrations management, and code review processes.

  • Engineered robust, user-focused E-Learning solutions for the Australian VET sector, driving efficiency and bottom-line results.
  • Successfully developed 15+ complex, business-critical E-learning software services

Software Developer and E-learning Consultant

Self-Employed at Upwork | Jan 2014 – Jan 2016

Applied my previous enterprise-level experience and E-learning domain knowledge as a freelancer. Developed various web projects: custom PHP projects, Moodle plugins, WordPress plugins, JavaScript/DHTMLX/jQuery frontend components for corporate platforms, online stores, and educational websites.

  • Completed over 50+ projects with an average 4.5 (out of 5) rating

Full Stack Software Developer

Act2win Ltd Austria | Oct 2012 – Jan 2014

Shifted career towards more knowledge in frontend and server administration. Took part in software development activities (full stack) and server administration (bash, Linux, Apache). Supported the company in the development, deployment, continuous monitoring, and maintenance of around a hundred remote web servers. Focused mostly on components for remote instance management.

  • Developed a middleware backend part for remote instance management
  • Together with senior sysops supported around a hundred remote web servers for various customers (i.e. Danone S.A)

Junior Software Developer

Smart Academy Ltd Ukraine | Aug 2011 – Oct 2012

Started as a trainee and in 3 months was promoted to the Junior developer position. Took part in custom E-learning system support; created email components and qualifications frameworks.

  • Created the first website based on project requirements in Drupal
  • Contributed to company SVN repository with new Zend PHP components, guided by more experienced colleagues
  • Created first enterprise-level components (new classes inside custom enterprise E-learning system)

Student Project

Kharkiv Polytechnical University | 2010-2011

Applied knowledge from Relational Databases courses, Java, and C++ courses into a few educational projects.

  • Created Go chess game in C++
  • Created ITSM Helpdesk improvement as a part of a graduation project

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