Hello!
I am a business oriented, data-driven engineering leader with 23 years of experience in creating/maintaining critical solutions in global markets.
I work on outcomes, efficiency, quality, risks with a lean, transformative mindset with people in the core.
Besides my professional experience, I am using computers for more than 30 years. Over the years, I worked on different aspects of critical global products at telco level, provided consultancy and took engineering, management and leadership roles.
Currently I am a senior manager working as solution leader at Johnson & Johnson on innovative healthcare products where software and medical technology meets.
Previously I worked at:
- Devoteam
- Big Industries (Part of Cronos Group)
- Nokia
- Alcatel-Lucent
- Bell-Labs
- and some more
Here is what I did / do:
- Lean software principles
- Waste-conscious environment
- Agile principles
- Continous improvement cycles (PDCA, Kaizen)
- OKR setting
- Supporting individuals and roles like scrum masters, product owners
- User story writing
- Team building and data-driven engineering environment creation
- Business alignment, value propositions, creating product mindset
- Metric building (Lead/Cycle times, DORA, SLI/SLO ..)
- Kanban and scrum setup. Setting up purposeful swimlanes, classes of service
- Backlog management and prioritization
- Quality gates and metrics
- Triage systems
- GitOps
- DevSecOps
- People management, learning and development
- Crisis and risk management
- Design and implementation of (mainly) scalable, performant, reliable, observable backend systems
- Programming and documentation best practices
- Branching, release and deployment strategies
- Efficient testing approaches
- Secure coding
- Refactoring and managing technical debt
- Cloud migrations
- Infrastructure automation
- Network connectivity
- Security
- Cost and risk management
- Performance tuning on operating systems and databases
- Kubernetes native solution design and implementation
- Cluster lifecycle and configuration management with complete automation
- Cluster security, service meshes
- CNCF ecosystem
- Increasing observability of products
- Creating SRE teams
- SLI/SLO setting
- Working with CNCF ecosystem and alternatives
- Incident management, RCAs
- Lean software principles
- Lean wastes
- Agile principles
- User story writing, prioritization and estimation
- Kanban & Scrum
- Best practices and anti-patterns when using issue management systems
- Laws in software engineering
- Antifragile software
- The Black Swan and Lean & Agile principles
In the meantime I have earned some certifications while working on variety of subjects in hands-on manner.
- Professional Scrum Product Owner, 2021
- Professional Scrum Master, 2021
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator, 2021
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), 2019
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, 2020
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert, 2019
- Oracle Certified Professional Java 8, 2016
- Red Hat Certified Engineer 7, 2017
- Oracle Database 10g Administrator Certified Associate, 2009
- Oracle Database SQL Certified Expert, 2009
- Sun Certified Network Administrator, 2002
- Sun Certified System Administrator, 2002
- Microsoft Certified System Engineer, 2003
- Microsoft Certified Database Administrator, 2003
- Microsoft Certified System Administrator, 2003