Alex Ischenko

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.