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Igor Popov

Oranienburg

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Engineering Manager

Jimdo
02.2024 - Current

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Help the team with the roadmap planning and prioritization

✓ Facilitate and help the team with the technical decisions

✓ Facilitate continuous improvements of the team processes involving internal and external communications

✓ Mentor and coach the engineers within the team and other engineering managers in the organization

✓ Onboard new team members

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Led a couple of important migration projects involving cross-team collaboration and planning

✓ Successfully led the merging of two teams with mutual onboarding

✓ Improved the delivery speed by implementing the best practices in development processes

✓ Promoted two engineers in less than half a year


TECHNOLOGIES Kotlin, Spring, TypeScript, React, Python, AWS, Terraform, Docker, K8, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, Fastly

Head of Engineering

Embea GmbH
05.2022 - Current

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Led the development of the insurance core system

✓ Managed hiring activities from job description to contract negotiations

✓ Aligned business expectations with development team capabilities

✓ Mentored and motivated the team, reducing attrition rates

✓ Conducted regular 1-1 meetings with development and product teams

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Assembled cross-functional partially distributed team

✓ Established the fault-tolerant, extendable and simple architecture

✓ Developed the domain model of the insurance core system with CPO and Head of Product

✓ Implemented fully-automated CI/CD process for feature implementation and infrastructure changes

✓ Delivered MVP within 8 months from scratch

✓ Achieved Go-Live readiness within 10 months

✓ Created company-wide guidelines and policies for IT resource usage

✓ Successfully passed internal and external due diligence for the entire company and the insurance core system


TECHNOLOGIES Kotlin, Spring, TypeScript, React, AWS, Terraform, Docker, GitHub Actions

Engineering Manager

Delivery Hero
07.2021 - 05.2022

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Led development of solutions for integration of POS- systems of large vendors

✓ Conducted performance reviews, 1:1 meetings, and created personalized development plans for team members, fostering their growth and professional advancement

✓ Collaborated with other leads and product owners to enhance the vendor experience and deliver best-in-class solutions.

✓ Ensured the maintainability and observability of the system while optimizing costs, enabling effective long-term operation

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Fast onboarding in heterogenic domain of POS integrations team

✓ Led the development of new architecture of new order transmission system

✓ Improved the team's delivery speed by optimizing stories refinement techniques, resulting in a 20% reduction in development cycle time

✓ Successfully led the migration of the tech stack from NodeJS to Kotlin, improving system performance and scalability


TECHNOLOGIES Kotlin, Spring, JS, TS, NodeJS, AWS, Terraform, Docker

Engineering Team Lead

ELEMENT Insurance AG
02.2018 - 06.2021

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Insurance core system development.
Specifically - the underwriting domain
✓ Performance reviews, 1:1, personal development of team members
✓ Hiring of team, help with hiring for other teams
✓ Development and alignment of product roadmap
together with product owner and VP of Engineering
✓ Alignment with other teams, identification of
dependencies and risks mitigation.
✓ Reorganisation of on-site team to work in remote work

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Quick onboarding - first large product was delivered in first three month of employment
✓ Effective management of team resources
✓ Clear definition of each team domain without too much intersections
✓ Introduced kotlin to improve code quality as well as performance
✓ Introduced learning days - an initiative to improve team collaboration and knowledge sharing.
✓ Effective on hiring - everyone from hired employees have passed probation period.

TECHNOLOGIES Java 8, kotlin, Spring, JS, TS, AWS, Terraform, Docker

Technical Team Lead

Locafox GmbH
02.2017 - 01.2018

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Point of Sale system development
✓ Code review & refactoring
✓ Managing partly remote team
✓ Management of the technology stack
✓ Defining the technical architecture for backend and mobile applications
✓ Leading the migration to AWS as well as migration to real micro service architecture
✓ Analyzing technical issues and providing solutions
✓ Hiring of new team members
✓ Training developers with new technologies

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Fast handover from previous team lead
✓ Introduced unit testing
✓ Dockerisation of dev and test environments
✓ Introduced Amazon SQS as messaging provider
✓ Designed and implemented replacement for 3d party authorization service.
✓ Designed and implemented Spring Boot micro services as replacement for EJB war modules
✓ Fast understanding of mobile application architecture

TECHNOLOGIES Java 1.8, Spring, EJB, PostgreSQL, AngularJS, Docker,
ActiveMQ, AWS, Google FireBase, AndroidSDK

Technical Team Leader

Lamoda LLC
06.2014 - 01.2017

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Development Warehouse Management System.
✓ Development of solutions to automate business processes.
✓ Code review & refactoring
✓ Team hiring and building from scratch
✓ People management. Performance review
✓ On site rollouts

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Deep refactoring of system, to improve simplicity and productivity.
✓ Designed and implemented business processes monitoring application using spring boot and AngularJS.
✓ Designed and implemented web-based solution to replace old Swing Rich-client application, using AngularJS framework.
✓ Successfully rollout 7 phases of warehouse automation

TECHNOLOGIES java 1.8, Spring, EJB, Postgres, Redis, ActiveMQ

Senior Java Developer

Buzzlike LLC
06.2013 - 06.2014

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Development of small social startup with AngularJS
frontend and Java backend.
✓ Maintaining of test environment.
✓ Code review.
✓ Refactoring.
✓ Release engineering.
✓ Release planning.

ACHIEVEMENTS
✓ Designed and implemented java backend.
✓ Designed and implemented lightweight python micro
service for loading image to AWS CDN.
✓ Understanding of scrum development.
TECHNOLOGIES Java 1.7, Spring, Jersey, python 2.6, Mongodb

Java Developer

QIWI
10.2011 - 06.2013

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Development of popular payment service in Russia.
✓ Release engineering.
ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Development of new version of qiwi.com application.
✓ Understanding of S.O.L.I.D. principles.
✓ Application of refactoring.
✓ Performing code review practice.
TECHNOLOGIES java 1.6, core spring framework, Struts 2

Java Developer

Lognex LLC
05.2011 - 11.2011

Development of warehouse and sales management cloud
service.

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Fast understanding of building GWT application.
✓ Completed new UI for billing.

TECHNOLOGIES Java 1.6, GWT

Java Developer

Haulmont LLC
02.2011 - 05.2011

Development of several enterprise application on the in-
house built framework CUDA.

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Fast learning of core spring and hibernate.
✓ Complete project for Ministry of Education.

TECHNOLOGIES Java 1.6, Spring, Vaadin, GWT


Java Developer

NetCracker
08.2008 - 02.2011

RESPONSIBILITIES

✓ Development of the inventory module of huge
TOMS(Telecom Operations and Management Systems).
✓ Participation in the development of technical
documentation

ACHIEVEMENTS

✓ Understanding of core java.
✓ First commercial coding experience.

TECHNOLOGIES Java 1.4, 1.5, EJB 2.0, Servlets, Weblogic

Education

Specialist - Applied Mathematics And Computer Science

Samara State Aerospace Univercity
Samara, Russia

Languages

English
Advanced
Russian
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Timeline

Senior Engineering Manager

Jimdo
02.2024 - Current

Head of Engineering

Embea GmbH
05.2022 - Current

Engineering Manager

Delivery Hero
07.2021 - 05.2022

Engineering Team Lead

ELEMENT Insurance AG
02.2018 - 06.2021

Technical Team Lead

Locafox GmbH
02.2017 - 01.2018

Technical Team Leader

Lamoda LLC
06.2014 - 01.2017

Senior Java Developer

Buzzlike LLC
06.2013 - 06.2014

Java Developer

QIWI
10.2011 - 06.2013

Java Developer

Lognex LLC
05.2011 - 11.2011

Java Developer

Haulmont LLC
02.2011 - 05.2011

Java Developer

NetCracker
08.2008 - 02.2011

Specialist - Applied Mathematics And Computer Science

Samara State Aerospace Univercity
Igor Popov