Igor Popov

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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