Timothy S. Ivaikin
CTO / Head of Business Delivery Unit
Dubai, UAE
Timothy Ivaikin is a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead & CTO with 12+ years of software engineering and operations experience. He is working on complex international projects with teams drawn from multicultural backgrounds, such as the USA, England, Russia, Ireland, Cyprus, CIS, and Dubai. He has several certifications, such as Harvard Business School CORe.
Timothy Ivaikin is a Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead & CTO with 12+ years of engineering and operations experience. He is working on complex international projects with teams drawn from multicultural backgrounds, such as the USA, England, Russia, Ireland, Cyprus, CIS, and Dubai. He has several certifications, such as Harvard Business School CORe.
Contact Info :
Mobile Number
+971 52 464 9121
Telegram
+971 52 464 9121
Skype
ivaykin@live.com
Linkdin
Timothy Ivaikin
CORE SKILLS :
Result Oriented
- Encouraged by international ambitious projects.
- Never afraid of accepting challenges as they occur.
Agile & Scrum
- Highly experienced in appropriate application of Scrum and Agile methodologies in the management of product's life cycle.
Critical Thinking
- Capable of managing complex products and maintaining high quality.
- Determined to analyze complex data and appropriately create meaning.
Management Style
- Keen on building employees' autonomy. Seeking to create cross-functional teams based on reasonable initiative and responsibility.
- Dedicated at maintaining the effective pace of development of project.
- Prone to recommend methodology and management approaches that are based on scope, costs, risks, and deadlines.
Teamwork
- Passionate about creating and maintaining project's knowledge base Inspired to help new team members to adapt smoothly in a new environment.
- Extremely skilled in determining strategy and setting goals.
- Genuine in engaging with team members and inspiring them.
- Cooperative in supporting and leading like-minded people.
Perseverance
- Devoted to working on projects that are in critical conditions to the desired outcome.
Leadership and Motivation
- Committed to pushing projects to completion overcoming obstacles of any difficulty.
- Always ready to take responsibility regardless of external circumstances.
Technology Stack
- Proficient in React, Angular, Azure, C#, C++, SQL, TypeScript, OpenShift, rSocket, gRPC, Java, Java Spring, Python, Ruby on Rails, MSSQL.
Education :
- 2017 Harvard Business School «HBX CORe»
- 2016 Pacific National University PhD candidate in System Analysis
- 2014 Pacific National University Computer Science, Master's Degree
- 2012 Pacific National University Computer and Fundamental Science, BA in Software Engineering
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE :
INFIJOY DMCC (global eLearning, Well-being Platform for Humanity)
- Led the development of a multi-platform eLearning platform with a custom content delivery system, analytics, and CRM.
- Developed a robust, secure, and scalable architecture with high performance and scalability.
- Implemented a custom content delivery system for both online and offline learning, as well as a custom analytics engine to track user engagement.
- Built a DevOps pipeline for continuous integration and delivery.
- Implemented DevOps practices resulting in a 20% reduction of application delivery times.
- Developed a tracking system that reduced the number of open issues by 30%.
- Increased application and web performance by 40%.
- Deployed a multiregional database infrastructure that improved scalability and availability.
- Established and managed a QA department that achieved a 95% success rate.
- Developed and implemented a community architecture that increased user engagement by 60%.
- Led a team that improved API, backend, and frontend performance, resulting in a 30% reduction in page and apps load times.
Technology Stack:
Node.js, React, Redux, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
Software Engineering Manager CitiGroup :
(Global Investment Bank and Financial Services)
10/2020- Led the UI / frontend group of the project. Provided the group with the new gRPC-based transport for Citi and CI/CD based on Kubernetes and OpenShift. Arranged the creation of report components for brokers including risk management solutions. Supervised 2 direct subordinates.
- Guided solving complex technical design problems, creation of new solutions using React. Leveraged automation testing methods to increase test coverage and build confidence in Citi's continuous delivery pipeline.
- Managed the development of Investment and Risk projects.
Technology Stack:
TypeScript, React, OpenShift, rSocket, gRPC.
Tech Lead / Head of Development Notesko :
(FinTech in investment sector)
06/2019 – 10/2020- Led 3 teams of 1-5 developers with projects of around $2,5M average annual budget. Ensured a highly effective workflow with more than 11 fully automated pipelines for microservices–based projects.
- Managed the budget required for services costs and integrations. Developed technical vision, design, and implementation of the next-generation software solutions from systems architecture to user experience following the highest industry standards.
- Drove the development of a number of ERP / CRM / Client Portal projects.
Technology Stack:
C#, MSSQL, TypeScript, Angular 8, Rest, Azure.
Head of Frontend Department SM2 :
(Leading commercial real estate database in Russia that provides the most complete information for decision— making in real estate market)
12/2017 – 08/2019- Together with the founding team, launched the entire PropTech startup (https://sm2.ai) and web services at the enterprise level from scratch. Built the whole process from architecture to product development and management.
- Made strategic corporate and product decisions that resulted in 177% growth in 12 months.
- Developed customer-oriented web applications from zero. Optimized the applications for maximum speed and scalability and improved components for maximum performance on a massive variety of web-enabled devices and browsers. Focused on business results.
- Effectively contributed to SM2's team and assisted in reaching «done–done» consistently.
- By taking the initiative, organized 10 annual events, which resulted in 12 new partnership agreements
- Ensured high quality software delivery, sprint after sprint.
- Solved complex technical design problems, created new architectural solutions. Leveraged automation-testing methods to increase test coverage and level of confidence in SM2's continuous delivery pipeline.
Technology Stack:
C#, MSSQL, TypeScript, Angular 8, Rest, Azure.
Project Manager Techno Media Ltd :
(leading web & mobile agency)
08/2012 – 01/2018- Launched my own web development studio from scratch in a highly competitive environment.
- Over the course of 6 years, the team under my leadership executed over 230 projects to develop and integrate software for federal networks (HoReCa, FMCG), regional IT clusters, and executive authorities with an average project budget of $ 8K.
- Orchestrated the full–stack development for the federal delivery network “Dodo Pizza” (namely dodopizza.com website and internal solutions for automating business processes).
- Led the front-end development for 3 main Spongecell / Flashtalking projects, which comprise:app.spongecell.com, advertising studio and own business processes. Automated solutions with over 1250 different functions at the infrastructure and client levels.
Technology Stack:
C#, MSSQL, TypeScript, Angular 8, Rest, Azure.
MOST VALUABLE PROJECTS:
INFIJOY DMCC (global eLearning, Well-being Platform for Humanity)
- Led the development of a multi-platform eLearning platform with a custom content delivery system, analytics, and CRM.
- Developed a robust, secure, and scalable architecture with high performance and scalability.
- Implemented a custom content delivery system for both online and offline learning, as well as a custom analytics engine to track user engagement.
- Built a DevOps pipeline for continuous integration and delivery.
- Implemented DevOps practices resulting in a 20% reduction of application delivery times.
- Developed a tracking system that reduced the number of open issues by 30%.
- Increased application and web performance by 40%.
- Deployed a multiregional database infrastructure that improved scalability and availability.
- Established and managed a QA department that achieved a 95% success rate.
- Developed and implemented a community architecture that increased user engagement by 60%.
- Led a team that improved API, backend, and frontend performance, resulting in a 30% reduction in page and apps load times.
Technology Stack:
Node.js, React, Redux, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes.
Citygroup
(international investment bank)
- Led the team that developed a SaaS solution - a service for assessing risks in working with complex financial instruments (options, derivatives, etc.) – for implementation in banks and sale on the external market.
- Automated the analysis of indicators (PnL, option greeks) of current client portfolios and assessing prospective risks for deals and options, including complex conditions and critically influencing external factors, as part of that solution development.
- Reduced the speed of making critical decisions on transactions from 2–3 days to 1 minute with many people involved in decision-making process.
- Implemented the possibility to track in real–time the dynamics of all transactions and financial results.
- Built a product delivery process based on the Kubernetes pipeline with a preliminary launch in a test environment, with further escalation to higher levels and the release of the top-quality product. Ensured the code contained no bugs and vulnerabilities.
Technology Stack:
TypeScript, React, OpenShift, rSocket, gRPC.
Aptiv Connected Services
(data acquisition and analysis solutions for pre-production and production vehicles)
- Ensured the release of an incremental product – a cloud–based Edge IoT management solution for Fleet Services.
- As a Technical Team Leader, implemented all Scrum ceremonies, wrote for the team instructions on processes, and prioritized the order of operations, taking into account business needs. Organized regular meetings (individual and group ones), and arranged a mentoring system for team members with an analysis of key growth points.
- Organized the creation of a fault-tolerant system and reduced the number of product failures by 80%, by changing the architecture to improve the speed and quality of development.
Technology Stack:
TypeScript, React, OpenShift, rSocket, gRPC.
Notesko
(FinTech in investment sector)
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Arranged the development and support of 3 strategic products with an annual
budget of $ 2.5M:- SaaS service that allows clients to copy transactions of Mirror Trading brokers.
- Client and partner portals.
- CRM system
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The team under my leadership for all products achieved the following:
- Increased the frequency of releases by 7 times (new release 1 time in 2 days, previously 1 time in 2 weeks) and built continuous integration.
- Eliminated all critical bugs on the release (previously it had at least 2 critical bugs per month due to a sharp scaling of the business), and the number of non-critical errors was reduced by 20%.
- Got 99.99% of sessions passing without interruptions in work (previously the number was no more than 60%, with interruptions within 1 hour).
- Reached velocity of at least 14 story-points per sprint for 1 team member with a low variance of deviations (previously the number was 3-6 story-points per sprint).
- Swiftly closed tickets within no more than 1 hour from the moment of first contact (previously it was not measured.
- Adopted the DDD approach (Domain Driven Design), used message bus for exchanging data between services, designed a scalable architecture that allowed the business to grow 100 times (over 2 years of operation, the number of users increased from 10 thousand to 1 million).
- Introduced all Scrum processes from scratch, defined KPIs (release duration, team speed, fault tolerance) and SLA (ticket closure speed, user satisfaction). Introduced a systematic analysis of the causes of bugs with the team.
Technology Stack:
TypeScript, React, OpenShift, rSocket, gRPC.
Added Skills :
- 2020 Strategic Management Copenhagen Business School
- 2017 Business Analytics Harvard Business School Online
- 2017 Economics for Managers Harvard Business School Online
- 2017 Financial Accounting Harvard Business School Online
- 2015 Preparation of technological projects to obtain funding Agency for Strategic Initiatives
- 2012 BA in Finance (fast-track degree program) Pacific National University
Languages :
Proficient English
Native Russian
Intermediate German
