Experience
PHP developer to engineering manager to CTO. Founder work ran alongside Wrike until March 2026. Now open to new roles, Nicosia, remote or hybrid.
- people led at Wrike
- 10
- cross-functional teams
- 2
- years at Wrike
- 6
- players on games I built as CTO
- 110K
Wrike
Cyprus and Saint Petersburg
Engineering Manager
February 2023 to March 2026, Cyprus
- Line-managed up to 10 people across frontend, backend and QA in two cross-functional teams, with no team-lead layer. Hiring, growth, performance, planning and risk.
- Delivered dozens of projects in one of the product's most used areas, including major layout changes, historical analytics and a migration of legacy common entities.
- Co-created a single priorities convention, adopted by all of the roughly 12 engineering teams across 6 units.
- Built the People Management Platform used by every engineering people manager.
- Replaced separate sprint reviews with an engineer-led grand review that stakeholders actually attended. Other units copied the format.
Senior Software Engineer
February 2021 to February 2023, Saint Petersburg then Cyprus
- Built no-code tools for configurable custom entities and worked on the core item view, where people configure work and collaborate in real time.
- Decomposed and estimated work, contributed to quarterly planning and ran technical interviews.
- Relocated from Saint Petersburg to Cyprus in February 2022.
AngularDart, Dart, React
Software Engineer
February 2020 to February 2021, Saint Petersburg
- Worked in a unit focused on scalability and performance, and rebuilt a heavily used feature on a modern stack.
- Wrote automation that improved the developer experience, and reviewed code for key features.
AngularDart, Dart
Co-Founder and CTO
January 2026 to August 2026
- Built and rolled out TellKin to around 200 alpha users, with iOS and Android apps and an agent harness around the OpenAI API, in production.
- Built an evaluation harness for the story parser that surfaces invented facts, family-match errors, unresolved references, dates, places and omissions.
- Used the results to improve the context given to the model, so relatives are matched correctly.
React, Capacitor, Node.js, Supabase Edge Functions, OpenAI API
Co-Founder and CTO
January 2025 to January 2026
- Launched Reddit and Telegram games that reached 110,000 players. Evil Coin reached 2,500 daily active users.
- Implemented complex in-game animation and made Evil Coin play equally well on desktop and mobile.
- Designed backend systems for highly uneven, platform-driven traffic.
Three.js, React, Hono, Cloudflare Workers, CockroachDB
Andersen Lab
Saint Petersburg
Frontend Developer
August 2018 to February 2020
- Built a web app that analyses purchasing power, access and routes for retail-location planning.
- Rewrote a banking customer-intake app with more unit and end-to-end coverage, and launched a lending-management CRM for corporate clients.
- Interviewed candidates and mentored junior colleagues.
Polytechnic University
Peter the Great St. Petersburg
Bachelor's in Software Development Technologies
2013 to 2017
Also
Russian, native. English, C1. Professional Scrum Master I.