Engineering leader with 15+ years of experience scaling teams and systems. Proven track record of building and leading engineering organizations of 40+ developers, architecting cloud-native platforms, and driving technical strategy. Expertise in platform engineering, developer experience, and delivering high-impact infrastructure that accelerates business outcomes. Successfully led digital transformations, reduced time-to-market by 10x, and established engineering best practices across organizations.

Skills

Leadership & Management

  • Team Building
  • Hiring & Onboarding
  • Technical Mentoring

Platform Engineering

  • IDP
  • DevEx
  • PaaS
  • Self-Service Infrastructure

Cloud & Infrastructure

  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Terraform
  • GitOps
  • IaC
  • OCI
  • CNCF

System Architecture

  • Distributed Systems
  • Microservices
  • High Availability
  • Cloud-Native Design

DevOps & Automation

  • CI/CD
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI
  • Reproducible Builds
  • Configuration Management

Programming Languages

  • Go
  • Python

Work Experience (4)

Apr 2024 - Current
Lead of DevEx team
Scalable Solutions Ltd.
 https://scalablesolutions.io
Lead platform engineering initiatives, driving developer experience and infrastructure modernization across the organization. Established platform engineering practices, migrated critical systems to cloud-native architecture, and implemented enterprise-grade internal developer platform serving 100+ engineers.
  • Deployed Spotify Backstage as company-wide Internal Developer Platform (IDP)
  • Reduced time-to-market from months to days through declarative, spec-driven framework
  • Led migration of 12-year-old monolith and 10+ internal services (including Jira) to Kubernetes
  • Unified CI/CD workflows, sast, sbom, cosign and speedup by 40%
Apr 2022 - Apr 2024
Lead of Feed Performance team
Cheelee
 https://cheelee.us
Led technical architecture and engineering initiatives for geo-replicated social media platform (like TikTok). Designed and delivered core platform systems including distributed feed, media delivery, and user engagement infrastructure. Established engineering standards and mentored development teams.
  • Architected geo-distributed main feed, commenting, sharing, and loyalty systems for millions MAU
  • Designed scalable media converter and delivery infrastructure
  • Optimized infrastructure costs by 35% through architectural improvements and resource optimization
  • Developed and maintained company-wide Golang SDK, establishing coding standards and best practices
Mar 2018 - Feb 2022
Deputy CTO / Head of Engineering
SoftPro
 Moscow, Russia
Led engineering organization of software development, driving technical strategy and infrastructure for gaming and live-streaming platform. Responsible for system architecture, team building, data center and studio building, and engineering culture. Delivered mission-critical systems powering live casino operations and video streaming services.
  • Built and managed engineering team (40+ engineers) across multiple disciplines
  • Architected high-performance live casino platform with studio-grade quality and cloud-scale reliability
  • Built broadcast automation, real-time odds calculation, messaging, and storage systems
  • Established data center operations managing 400+ servers with 99.9% uptime SLA
Sep 2008 - Mar 2018
System Administrator & Software Developer
Early Career
 Moscow, Russia
Broad technical foundation spanning broadcast systems, network administration, web development, and computer science education. Secured multiple grants for technical projects.
  • Led and hired engineering teams
  • Built high-load backend systems for retail, media, gaming, education, and broadcast automation
  • Designed loyalty, promotion, recommendation, shopping cart, delivery, and analytics systems
  • Improved processes with CI/CD, automated testing, monitoring, and infrastructure automation
  • Worked with Golang, Python, Erlang, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Docker, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Linux
  • Maintained and supported professional broadcast automation systems

Projects (4)

GitHub: several projects
Feb 2022 - Current
 https://github.com/kazhuravlev
Postgres proxy, project-related tool manager, codegen for go-options, and libraries
Live Casino Platform — Studio-Grade, Cloud-Scale
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Custom hardware; Cloud-native scalability; Constant Database load; Extensible system - small core with extenstions; Resilient architecture.
Declarative Framework for Back-Office Management Pages
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Specification and framework for rapid admin interface creation. UI as code; Reduced new page delivery time 10x.
Real-time transaction reconciliation system
Apr 2024 - Sep 2024
Scalable system for automated reconciliation of banking and financial transactions. Processes tens of millions daily, guarantees auditability, standardizes processes, integrates with various banking systems.

Education (1)

2009 - 2014
Master's degree
 Applied Computer Science
Moscow State University of Instrument Engineering and Computer Sciences (MGUPI)

Publications

21 Nov 2024
 Functional options in Go in Habr
Golang and configuration problem