shtanko.me | me@shtanko.me | Amsterdam

• 10+ years hands-on engineering experience
• Serial team and tech leader for the teams of size 3-9 people
• Indie product developer
• Passionate software engineer

Ride-hailing application. Part of the FreeNow group. Fraud, safety, and identity.

As a software engineer and engineering manager in the Safety team, my main responsibility was to make sure that no one gonna be harmed given that we operate in very violent conditions.

• µServices, distributed systems, async\sync communication, golang, k8s, kafka, MySQL, DynamoDB, Aerospike, gRPC, protobuf, grafana, prometheus, loki, jira, ci\cd, terraform(-grunt), fully automated testing on multiple levels
• engineering leadership, hiring manager, team mentorship, code reviews, initiative groups, RFCs

• Managed to retain the engineering team (6 people) during very turbulent times
• 70% incident rate decrease in Argentina
• 15% safety perception increase in AR
• Closed the feedback loop with customers, and decreased user complaints by 33%
• The increased average amount of additional detections per robbery by 49%
• The number of robberies committed by a network of robbers decreased by 19%
• Average robberies per week decreased by 27.8%
• The average incident-related drivers churn decreased by 19%

• Research, design, and implement instruments for incident prevention via rules management, data analysis, and KYC procedures
• Build tools to take proactive and reactive measures
• Lead technical design reviews and code reviews
• Own the full lifecycle of components and services in the Beat stack along with my team, including architecture design and planning, development, testing, deployment and production support
• Individual contributor to the features and the tasks of the team
• Work with Product Owners to understand desired application capabilities and features
• Establish a suitable team process and a continuous improvement environment
• Manage the performance and career development of team members, working with them to define goals, track progress, and give feedback
• Hiring manager for the Fraud, Safety and Identity team

Sales automation tool (SaaS). Early-stage multifunctional developer (one of the founding developers). Went from no profit to profitable business together with the company.

• Languages: Golang, C#
• Cloud providers: Azure, AWS
• Stores: PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, Table Storage, MS SQL, Azure SQL
• Container orchestration: k8s + helm
• CI/CD: Teamcity, Jenkins within k8s, Octopus deploy
• Tools: Grafana, Azure application insights, Grafana loki

• Product technical architecture design and review
• Setting up the process for engineering teams
• Close collaboration with executives and PMs to bring all the product needs to the engineering teams
• PoCs, ideas validation, and product testing
• Catching up on bottlenecks and finding ways to solve them
• Hiring
• Team management and coaching
• Lovely CI/CD process

Building back-office application for gambling portal’s management, including players, bonuses and fraud activity control.

Developing of budget2pay management cloud solution that includes a lot of components for building custom business workflows and manage them.

Developing ERP-related applications for Versata/Trilogy group (Texas, USA).

National Mining University of Ukraine (2006 - 2011) Intelligent decision support systems (Computer Science) - Master of Science