BenchSci

Project Manager

-Independent Consultant-

- Work with individuals, particularly in high-stress industries like IT and tech, helping them to create strategies to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives, boosting overall well-being
- I help IT leaders (team leaders and middle management) to enhance their emotional intelligence, decision-making and leadership development through personal coaching based on ICF principles.

Coach ICF ACC

As an experienced Agile coach, I guide organizations through the process of adopting and refining Agile delivery to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. My work involves coaching teams, managers, and executives on how to apply Agile approaches such as Scrum framework and Kanban method to their specific contexts.

Agile Coach / Management Consultant

K&C (Krusche & Company)

While working in this position, I collaborated with numerous customers and assumed various roles. The clients included Nestle Switzerland, Informa Connect UK, Bosch Group, HSBC Germany. My responsibilities were diverse, as detailed below:

As a Portfolio Manager:
- Oversaw the company's entire project portfolio.
- Ensured the successful delivery of all portfolio components, involving 150+ people.
- Designed PMO processes and templates to support Delivery.
- Maintained the operational profit margin within the agreed target.
As a Program Manager:
- Managed two programs for the company’s key customers (team 50+ people).
- Implemented strategies that exceded to expected YoY accounts growth.
As a Project Manager:
- Managed predictive and adative projects with various types of customers, including startups, mid-size companies, global enterprises, and government organizations.
- Handled delivery with different contract types, including fixed-price, managed service, delivery team, and dedicated team arrangements.
As an Agile Coach:
- Guided teams in adopting the Agile culture and principles, while supporting several customers through their Agile transformations.
- Acted as Scrum Master for different customer and setups, including in SAFe.

Head of Delivery (customer-side roles: Project Manager / Program Manager)

I managed client-oriented software development projects, leading all stages of development process from pre-sale to completion. I ensured timely project delivery for customers such as Societe Generale, Informa, Burda, Puma, Avalgon, Solar-Log.

As the Head of the Business Unit, I was responsible for overseeing the project delivery excellence for the Business Unit Ukraine (BU UA). I served as the focal point for daily operational activities and organizational growth, maintained the agreed net profit for the BU.

Delivery Manager / Project Manager / Head of BU Ukraine

Bosch

As a Scrum Master I helped to establish a healthy Scrum cycle with predictable deliverables, reduced cycle time and lead time.

Scrum Master (via K&C)

SvitSoft

As a Project Manager, I managed client-oriented web development projects on schedule and achieved milestones for notable clients including Microsoft Ukraine, The American Chamber of Commerce, Ukrbud and Osvitoria.  Actively participated in planning, managing change requests, budgeting and stakeholder management.

As a Scrum Master, I oversaw the software development activities for the AdSaver product, a dynamic call-tracking software. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, improving the team's productiviry to deliver reliable software with a 99.8% uptime.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Indus Valley

Head E-commerce / Product Manager

JCDecaux

System Administrator

I’m a Project Manager and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience helping distributed product teams deliver complex software development projects across a variety of environments - from startups and scaleups to Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations.

What sets me apart is the ability to blend structured project delivery (PMP, PfMP) and Agile expertise (CSP, KMP, ICP-ACC) with coaching mastery (ICF ACC). This combination enables not just timely results, but sustainable team growth and human-centered leadership.

Currently, I’m working in the GenAI space, contributing to the development of frontier product. It’s a space full of ambiguity, experimentation, and rapid shifts - where my coaching mindset and delivery discipline help teams stay focused and resilient.

Dmytro Salo

Intellias

The client was an international company with headquarters in Ratingen, Germany. Client is the provider of commercial toll solutions in Europe and also offers services for vehicles at around 33,000 stations and innovative digital solutions. The main goal of the project was to create a Platform on top of Azure and Kubernetes for the 15 engineering teams.


Responsibilities & achievements
Providing extensions with Java and customers support for Keycloak oAuth
Automatization with Python scripts for Azure DevOps pipelines
Automatization of infrastructure using Terraform
Providing new solutions for the Platform and support for engineers from other teams
Provided pipelines for creating and integration of KSQL clusters with Confluent Kafka platform
Maintaining and improvements for Kubernetes clusters


Technology stack used
Java 11, Python 3, Keycloak, Confluent Kafka, Azure, Azure Devops, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, PostgreSQL, Kadeck, Grafana Mimir, Keda, KSQL

Senior Platform Engineer

Eptura

Projects: Eptura unified worktech platform

Technologies: Java 11,Confluent Kafka, Azure, Github Actions, Terraform, Kubernetes, Flux, Helm, Argo Workflows, Codefresh, Datadog, PostgreSql

Participation:
Provided architectural solutions and documentation as a member of Engineering Enablement team
Reviewed and improved infrastructure for new platform
Support 3 teams as a DevOps
Built a microservice generator for a new platform on top of Spring Initializr
Clients support and incidents resolution after release of a platform

Projects: 
Identity and access management, vehicle device command, tenant management systems for Robert Bosch GmbH Mobility Cloud platform (https://bit.ly/39wHI6W)

Java 11,  Python 3, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Argo(cd, events, workflow), ELK, RabbitMQ, Redis, Netflix OSS, PostgreSql, Serenity, Cucumber

Participation:
Provided architectural solutions and documentation for Mobility Cloud platform services
Administration and managing of Kubertenes cluster and infrastructure services(DevOps role)
Integrated CI/CD and Infrastructure as a Code concepts
Developed GitOps solution for tenant management system
Covered 10+ services with integration tests(QA Automation role)

Senior Java Software Engineer

Softjourn, Inc

Projects:
chromeriver.com(expense reporting and invoice processing)

Technologies: Java 8, Spring Boot, Hibernate, MySQL, ELK, Docker, Hystrix.

Participation:
Discussing system requirement with business and supporting customer needs.
Development.

Senior Java Developer

EPAM Systems

Projects:
Onsite work for EPAM customer in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Technologies: Angular 5, Java 8, Spring Boot, Hibernate, PostgreSQL, Docker.

Participation:
Discussing system requirement with business and supporting customer needs.
Database architecturing and developing.
Development.

Java Developer

JSC UKRCARD

Projects:
1.	Backend for self-service terminals
2.	REST service for Ukrpost Mastercard payments and p2p transfers
Technologies: Angular 2, Spring 4, Java EE(JAX-WS, JMS), Hibernate, JDBC, JSF(Ice Faces), PL/SQL(Oracle),  Postgresql, Tomcat, Weblogic.

Participation: 
     Took part in system design both parts from existing parts and developing from scratch.
Made decisions in system architecture as main developer.
Discussed system requirement with business and supporting customers needs. Refactored legacy parts of the system.

Middle Java Developer

BMS Consulting

Java EE application for https://prozorro.gov.ua procurement system.
Technologies: JSF(PrimeFaces), EJB, JPA(EclipseLink), JasperReports, PostgreSQL(PL/pgSQL).

Junior Java Developer

Freelance

Android Developer

Miroktel

Junior Android Developer

Took part at all stages of software development(architecture, programming, infrastructure, QA). Certified Kubernetes specialist. Have experience with modern software development practices like 12-factor microservices concept, clouds, DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as a code, SaaS/PaaS. Experienced is system design, database development. Rich experience in close interaction with business and it's customers.

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