Viacheslav Bessonov

As a CTO I’m responsible for outlining the company's technological vision and implementing technology strategies one of which is an automated trading system playing a crucial role in the firm’s investment activities. - As a product manager, I’m responsible for creating roadmaps and timelines for development. Created an effective requirements elicitation process which allowed to increase dev team productivity and guarantee project delivery in a timely fashion. - As a tech leader, I’m responsible for finding the most reliable infrastructure that can handle our load 24/7 and the most efficient and reliable tech stack that can both allow us to implement new trading strategies faster and be infallible to not lose money due to technical errors and glitches. Moved most of the company workload to the cloud which significantly increased reliability, simplified maintenance, and reduced costs. - As a team leader, I’m responsible for managing the dev team. Hired a team of 6 engineers and responsible for managing its day-to-day activities: preparing backlogs in JIRA, managing JIRA boards, conducting sprint planning, daily and 1:1 meetings, and ensuring all tasks are delivered in time. - As an executive, I’m responsible for budgeting (for example, selecting cloud platforms that adhere to the firm’s needs and at the same time are cost-efficient) and preparing reports for the high management and key stakeholders. - Technical skills: Docker, Docker Compose, Kubernetes, GCP, GKE, Python (threading, multiprocessing, asyncio, aiohttp, Tornado, Flask, Fast API, SQLAlchemy), Celery, RabbitMQ, MySQL, Oracle, ELK, Redash, Prometheus, Grafana.

- As a chief architect I was called in primarily to analyze business requirements, hand-craft all technical design specs and detail them in JIRA stories. - As a senior developer, my secondary role was to design and create new functionality within the Optiva’s TCB and UDS products. - Tasked with the responsibility of raising the bar in terms of product QA, improving team efficiency and productivity, and full authority for code reviews for a software development team. - Managed a team of ten (worked as a SEM’s deputy): was responsible for daily status update calls, team’s assignments, metrics, etc. - Technical skills: .NET (ASP.NET, WCF), JavaScript (VanillaJS, jQuery), HTML, Bootstrap, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011/365, Debugging Tools for Windows (ADPlus, WinDbg, etc.). Programming languages: C#, JavaScript.

- Worked as a chief architect and the senior developer for designing and developing tools and services to support middle office enabling the bank to comply with new regulatory norms in a very short term, avoiding serious and potentially damaging financial loss. - Created an introductory course “Art of Debugging” for developers and presented it across different company offices across the whole of Poland, enabling development teams to rapidly find and fix bugs thereby improving the overall quality of software. - Responsible for new staff selection and interviewing, together with their subsequent training. - Responsible for code quality and code review for a team of ten. - Technical skills: .NET (Windows Forms, WCF, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Dapper, Autofac), SQL Server, Pentaho Data Integration, Debugging Tools for Windows (ADPlus, WinDbg, etc.). Programming languages: C#.