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Alex Ischenko

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Alex Ischenko
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jun 2024 - Jun 2024
1 month
Berlin, Germany

Public Speaker

WeAreDevelopers

  • Participated as a public speaker regarding leadership and transformational topics at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress with 15 thousand visitors.
Feb 2024 - Mar 2024
2 months
Berlin, Germany

Public Speaker

WeAreXena

  • Participated as a public speaker during the 700+ people Xena Tech Summit in Berlin, discussing leadership and diversity topics.
Feb 2023 - Present
3 years
Berlin, Germany

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.

Sep 2022 - Sep 2022
1 month
Berlin, Germany

Member

alphalist

Dec 2021 - Feb 2023
1 year 3 months
Berlin, Germany

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.

Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
4 months
Berlin, Germany

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.

Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
1 month
Berlin, Germany

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.

Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
3 years 6 months
Germany

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.

Aug 2016 - Mar 2018
1 year 8 months
Berlin, Germany

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.

Dec 2015 - Jul 2016
8 months
Berlin, Germany

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.

Feb 2013 - Feb 2018
5 years 1 month
Germany

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.

Sep 2001 - Jan 2013
11 years 5 months
Ukraine

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

German
Advanced
English
Advanced

Education

Jan 1998 - Dec 2004

Oles Honchar Dnipro National University

Master of Computer Science · Computer Science · Dnipro, Ukraine

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