Motion Design School

Leading the development of a cutting-edge educational platform. My responsibilities include the comprehensive ecosystem architecture design, the creation of an e-commerce platform, social platform and the gamification of the educational process. Launched the MVP of this platform within four months.

Co-Founder

Big Drop Inc

As a key contributor, I have played a central role in the successful execution of our company's overarching strategy. My hands-on leadership style has allowed me to manage various engineering and managerial teams expertly, ensuring the seamless delivery of highly successful products. This strategic approach has played a pivotal role in the substantial growth of our organization, leading to the acquisition of an esteemed clientele and partners.

• Ignited growth and positioned Big Drop as a global market leader, garnering 34X global awards within the agency space, with Fortune 100 and 500 clients, including Samsung, Citi Bank, United Nations, Moroccanoil, Assurant, Warner Music Group, Optimum, Midea, Northwell Health, Activision, and more
• Participated in sales meetings and helped the company close major contracts. Led the architecture conversations, answered RFP questions, trained BDRs and SDRs, provided examples, and presented solutions to help the sales team. Helped to close deals with Optimum, Warner Music, Midea, Northwell Health, Samsung, and Bank of China.
• Worked with leadership to improve the planning and roadmap process – resulting in fewer missed deadlines, improved quality, and better work/life balance for the team.
• Built and managed vendor relationships. Discovered and seized market opportunities while mitigating risk. Resulting in 5 strategic partnerships, including Contentful and Drupal, that brought enterprise clients.
• Established best software development practices and processes - code reviews, branching strategy, continuous integration, Agile sprint planning and standups, testing, etc.
• Strategic planning of engineering resources. Created team-wide OKRs and KPIs to align with the company’s business goals.
• Promoted company engineering culture: appeared at conferences and wrote blog posts for a company blog.

Chief Technology Officer

Hand-on coding for the most strategic clients while managing the production team. Consulted clients to assess needs and build client capabilities. Prepared proposals, negotiated deals, and led end-to-end production of projects for global brands. 
• Built a global workforce from 0 to 100+ full-time engineers and contractors while attracting, developing, and directing a team of managers, designers, testers and support staff, driving a commitment and high-performance culture. Redesigned the interviewing process, trained engineers in interview best practices, and improved developer onboarding to allow for rapid scaling.
• Built a proprietary innovative technology stack. Built internal products and tools for overall efficiency, process optimization, and improving department communication.
• Ignited growth and positioned Big Drop as a global market leader, garnering 34X awards within the agency space, with Fortune 100 and 500 clients, including Samsung, Citi Bank, United Nations, Moroccanoil, Assurant, Warner Music Group, Optimum, Midea, Northwell Health, Activision, and more
• Built a global workforce to 70+ full-time employees and contractors while attracting, developing, and directing a team of designers, developers, and support staff, driving a culture of commitment and high performance

Director of Engineering

YMEE

Provided estimates and led 2 developers. Developed strategic projects assigned to me. Collaborated with product managers and designers. Improved website performance and user experience by optimizing code and reducing load times.

Senior Software Engineer Team Lead

Loginaut

Provided estimates and led the development of projects assigned to me. Worked on a few projects at the same time. Collaborated with product managers and designers to deliver new features and enhancements. Improved website performance and user experience by optimizing code and reducing load times.

Sr. Software Engineer

Upwork

Developed and maintained websites and applications. Promoted by Upwork as a top engineer. Co-founder of a small dev shop. Delivered projects for clients like Google, Cisco, Ja Rule, and others. Recruited, trained, and led a team of 5 Engineers, 1 Designer, 1 DevOps.

Software Engineer

Qway Solutions

Led development efforts on multiple projects for a software development company. Developed and implemented CMS reusable templates, resulting in 5x performance improvement, quality improvement, and significant cost savings.

A passionate visionary with over 15 years of experience in software engineering, technology leadership, and management who thrives on solving complex problems and creating value for customers and stakeholders. 

As a CTO at Big Drop Inc., a digital agency that serves Fortune 100 and 500 clients, I built and managed a global team of over 100 talented professionals and implemented a proprietary technology stack that enabled us to deliver award-winning (34X global awards) web design and development projects.

As Co-Founder at Motion Design School, I lead the development of the educational platform and ecosystem products for a global online school of motion designers and CG artists.

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