Alex Ischenko
Public Speaker
Experience
Public Speaker
WeAreDevelopers
- Participated as a public speaker regarding leadership and transformational topics at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress with 15 thousand visitors.
Public Speaker
WeAreXena
- Participated as a public speaker during the 700+ people Xena Tech Summit in Berlin, discussing leadership and diversity topics.
VP of Engineering
elopage
Doubled delivery speed by reorganizing functional teams into smaller cross-functional units for 80+ FTEs (around 10 direct reports), including both in-house and remote teams.
Optimized cloud costs by reducing database expenses by 70%.
Developed a solid technical and product strategy for the international expansion.
Full CI/CD integration, reducing automation test runtime from 60 minutes to 15 minutes.
Stabilized the release process, reducing the number of incidents by 300%.
As a public speaker at numerous technical events, built a strong company brand, helping hire more than 30 people within one year from companies like Shopify, Solarisbank, Adjust, and Marley Spoon.
Scaling technology platforms in a high-growth, scale-up environment (over 70,000 businesses use our platform).
Establishing a strong culture of transparency, diversity, and regular, honest feedback across the department.
Identifying and mitigating potential risks associated with technology development, including technical debt, resource constraints, and regulatory compliance issues.
Creating development handbooks and best practices from scratch across the entire engineering organization.
Responsible for developing robust and scalable system architectures to ensure the company's technology solutions are designed to accommodate growth and adapt to evolving requirements.
Establishing and monitoring KPIs for the engineering team, measuring progress towards goals and identifying areas for improvement.
Conducting technical due diligence of external companies for potential acquisitions.
Promoting continuous learning and providing opportunities for training and mentorship.
Member
alphalist
Director Of Engineering
Unzer
Shaping the future of Fintech with Pay Later, Payment API, Risks, etc at the hottest payment unicorn of Europe.
Establishing the strong technical strategy during the hypergrowth from 100 to 1000 people within two years.
Managing different engineering cross-functional teams across Austria, Germany and other countries (more than 100 FTEs in the structure, around 10 direct reports).
Hiring engineers and scaling the teams.
Mentoring engineering leaders and architects.
Creating a culture of inclusivity, transparency and openness in the diverse set of engineering teams.
Distributing teams across Germany, Austria, Denmark and other countries.
Principal Architect
Unzer
Shaping the future architecture of payments at the hottest payment unicorn of Europe.
Working on the technical strategy for the enterprise architectural vision of the company, including the API integrations and connection of the acquired companies into the Unzer One platform.
Mentor
Mentoring Club
Supporting people in their personal learning journeys and connecting professionals with learners as part of a not-for-profit platform.
Mentoring topics include leadership & management, software engineering, scaling teams, relocating engineers from different countries to Germany, solutions architecture, technical due diligence, building strong engineering culture and startups.
CTO
dentolo / petolo (part of Zurich Insurance Group)
Managing engineering teams and building from scratch next generation insurance products for dental health with frontend, backend developers, DevOps, QA automation engineers and freelancers.
Building API platform as a SaaS solution for other insurance partners such as DA-Direct and Zurich Group.
Building software architecture of the product, developing and applying best code practices and continuous code review.
Preparing technical due diligence that played a big role for acquiring company by Zurich (in the top 10 world insurance companies).
Planning budgets for the team and infrastructure.
Coaching and mentoring team members through 1:1s and honest feedback.
Representing the company from the tech side for investors.
Effective management of remote and in-house teams using agile approaches (scrum, kanban, etc.).
Building scalable microservices with teams.
Building scalable affiliate marketing service.
Applying GDPR rules to services and infrastructure.
CTO, Co-founder
Skillfolio
Managing engineering team and building job platform from scratch.
Hiring new team members.
Setting strategy and goals across engineering teams.
Creating best practices for teams, continuous code review and code style guides.
Representing company from the technical side at events and pitches.
Building microservices with team based on REST API.
Using agile methodologies to manage team (scrum, kanban, etc.).
Developing tech-focused company culture.
Building software architecture of the project and main core functionality.
CTO, Co-founder
Edumagics
Managing engineering team and building service for students for different universities from scratch.
Hiring new team members.
Building software architecture of the project and main core functionality.
Creating best practices for teams, continuous code review and code style guides.
Using agile methodologies to manage team (scrum, kanban, etc.).
Developing tech-focused company culture.
Hands-on CTO
SOFTGAMES - Mobile Entertainment Services
Responsible for the development from scratch of the gaming platform's core with traffic of more than one million unique users per day.
Leading several projects connected with subscriptions and integrations with different APIs.
Developing software architecture of the platform.
Teaching and coaching developers.
Creating best practices for code for development teams.
Lead Developer, Engineering Manager
Various Consulting Projects
Spearheaded development teams across multiple sectors including logistics, FinTech, healthcare and real estate for clients in the US and EU.
Worked as the main technical contact, translating business needs into technical solutions.
Managed and mentored cross-functional engineering teams, fostering a collaborative environment and driving continuous improvement in coding standards and development practices.
Developed and executed technical strategies aligned with the latest industry trends and best practices.
Balanced multiple projects simultaneously, ensuring timely delivery and maintaining high standards.
Designed and implemented robust, scalable system architectures tailored to specific industry needs.
Led code reviews and established QA processes to ensure code quality, security and regulatory compliance.
Championed agile and scrum methodologies to improve team productivity and adaptability.
Evaluated and selected appropriate technology stacks for each project.
Provided clear, regular updates to stakeholders, bridging the gap between technical teams and business leaders.
Summary
- More than two decades of experience in building and leading development teams with high-quality product delivery
- Strong architectural experience and technical strategy in building scalable platforms (from zero to 2M daily users within few months, from zero to more than 250M€ ARR)
- Managing an annual engineering and product budget of 15M€+
- Strategy focused on small but efficient teams (the best example for me is the Telegram platform, with an R&D team of 30 developers). In the past, I’ve managed teams ranging in size from 5 to 150 FTEs
- Establishing SLI and SLA targets to achieve 99.99% uptime, ensuring high customer satisfaction
- Fostering a strong engineering culture while scaling from 5 to 100 and then to 1000 people
- Integration of the GenAI and AI into the product and internal processes
- Strong experience in Fintech, SaaS, E-commerce, Insurtech, Healthcare, and Gaming domains
- Focus on the Engineering domain, Web, Cloud, and DevOps
- Extensive track record in scaling enterprise architecture across diverse industries
- Software Engineer at heart and inspirational leader
- Setting strategies and goals across multiple engineering teams
- Hiring, inspiring, and growing cross-functional engineering teams
- Effectively managing remote and in-house teams
- Building apps that handle more than two million unique users per day
- Participating as a public speaker at engineering events with over 15000 attendees and building the strong company brand, which helps attract the best talent
- Consulting for startup investors in the U.S. and Europe
Skills
- Ruby
- Ruby On Rails
- Hanami
- Node.js
- Elixir
- Kotlin
- Golang
- Python
- React
- Vue.js
- Javascript
- Typescript
- Mysql
- Postgresql
- Mongodb
- Redis
- Application Performance Optimisation
- Scaling High-load Systems
- Aws
- Engine Yard
- Heroku
- Kubernetes
- New Relic
- Datadog
- Rest Api Implementations
- Graphql
- Event Driven Systems
- Consulting
- Outsourcing
- Insurtech
- Saas
- Fintech
- Remote Work
- Logistics Management
- Leadership & Management
- Software Engineering
- Scaling Teams
- Relocating Engineers From Different Countries To Germany
- Solutions Architecture
- Technical Due Diligence
- Building Strong Engineering Culture
- Startups
Languages
Education
Oles Honchar Dnipro National University
Master of Computer Science · Computer Science · Dnipro, Ukraine
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