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// 2007 → present

Work

Eighteen-plus years shipping across four countries — Russia, Vietnam, the US Midwest, and the US West Coast. Search engines, consumer marketplaces, voice platforms, jobs infrastructure. Reverse chronological.

  1. 2022 – presentcurrent

    Principal Software Engineer / Indeed

    Seattle

    Principal Engineer at the world's largest jobs marketplace. Top individual-contributor tier.

  2. 2017 – 2022

    Senior Software Engineer / Amazon

    Seattle · Alexa Connect Kit

    Core contributor on Alexa Connect Kit — the platform letting third-party device makers put Alexa in their hardware without building and running their own cloud + firmware stack.

  3. 2015 – 2017

    Software Engineer / Tech Lead / Groupon

    Chicago · 26 countries

    Led the Groupon Interface team — the consumer web surface across 26 country sites. Shipped auth- and deal-flow optimizations against top-10 global e-commerce traffic.

  4. 2013 – 2015

    Software Engineer / OpticsPlanet

    Chicago

    Optics, tactical, sporting-goods e-commerce. First landing in the US after Hanoi.

  5. 2011 – 2013

    Head of Frontend & Tools / CocCoc

    Hanoi · Head of department

    Ran frontend and tooling for the Russian-founded Vietnamese search engine challenging Google. Owned ranking, crawling, indexing work in the search dept; onboarded newcomers landing in Hanoi.

  6. 2011

    Team Lead / Talkover

    St. Petersburg

    Real-time multimedia messaging platform.

  7. 2010 – 2011

    Senior Developer / Geometria.ru

    St. Petersburg · Pre-Instagram photo social

    A pre-Instagram photo social network. Russians went there to find themselves in photos from last Saturday's party, tag friends, and follow venues — the full photo-social loop built on top of event-photography workflows, years before Instagram won the category globally. Later scaled to 60+ cities and international markets (now geometria.pro).

  8. 2009 – 2010

    Chief of Web Development / Baltpromkomplekt

    St. Petersburg

    Internal tools + e-commerce for industrial supply.

  9. 2008 – 2009

    Senior Developer / WizardSoft

    St. Petersburg

    Linux distribution platform and construction-automation products.

  10. 2007 – 2008

    Developer / BrandMaster

    St. Petersburg

    Web applications for advertising-agency clients. First professional gig.

// education

  • 2016
    M.S., Information Systems & Technology Management
    Capella University
  • 2002 – 2009
    M.Eng., Computer Science
    St. Petersburg State University of Waterway Communications