United Kingdom

Architectural Engineering

Platform Product Management

Back-end

Data engineering

Development Operations

Kirill Velikanov

Technology Director

Critical-thinking

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Information architecture

Docker

Java

GitLab

REST API

Kafka

- Running and supporting mission critical transformational client initiatives primarily as a Lead Architect/Head of Engineering, contributing product and project roadmaps; process design; security; system and enterprise architecture; data modelling, storage and retention; ways of working; natural language processing and artificial intelligence adoption.
- Contributing to client’s technology and cloud strategies, multi-year digital transformation and application modernisation initiatives, including ERP-systems, storefronts and back-office systems.
- Running partner and sales engineering function for Retail department.
- Leading multiple technical pre-sales and up-sales initiatives, contributing to the acquisition of multiple 7 figure contracts.
- Leading architecture for multiple engagements, with total of 200+ engineers.
- Contributing code to R&D activities.

- Implemented Technical and Architectural Governance practices for two major clients, resulting in reduced delivery costs and improved efficiency, involving a total of over 300 engineers.
- Led multiple technical pre-sales and up-sales initiatives, contributing to the acquisition of several 7 figure contracts.
- Designed and implemented engineer’s skillset matrices and career ladders; reduced hiring costs by 35%; halved attrition rate.
- Established Communities of Practices encompassing Software and Quality engineering, Architecture, DevOps, and UX practices, fostering knowledge sharing and collaboration throughout the company.

- Established Microservices platform having multiple zero-downtime releases per day buit by multiple teams in parallel, having more than 99.95% availability over 3 years.
- Built multiple sales channels using the Platform trading 9 figures per year, including eCommerce Web and Mobile and multiple B2B channels, trading over 100m/year.
- Introduced innovative CI/CD approach allowing product managers to control each release and environment, enabling transparency and reducing waste.
- Established technical governance practices deeply integrated into client’s processes, for architects, software engineers, QAs and DevOpses, total of up 80 engineers both on- and off-shore, reducing amount of bugs by 40%.
- Introduced mentorship programme for the engineering, helping growing the team from 20 to 80 engineers.

Responsibilities:
1. Solutions architect
2. Business and technical risk analysis
3. Technology partnerships and integrations

https://pixtraffic.com/
Position: CTO, small startup with 4-6 engineers, partial involvement
Responsibilities:
a. Coordination team of developers
b. Tech stack definition from Web UI to persistence layer
c. Requirements creation
d. Technical risk analysis
e. Coaching team members

Project details:
creation of new generation photo stock

Position: Database and interaction design
Responsibilities:
-Database design;
-Interaction design and usability tuning;
-Database’s logic and all SQL code needed;
-DBA;
-Adapting business-processes of company to digital accounting;
-Teaching less-trained co-workers;
-Java utilities developer;
Technologies used: J2SE, Swing, MS SQL 2008, SQL (DML+DDL), T-SQL, 1C Enterprise, XML

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