Aleksei Shikhov

Chief Technology Officer

May 2020 — till now

CarPrice, Moscow

• Management and organization of work > 50 employees
• Product management IT, product owner
• Active participation in the development of the main product as an architect (PHP [Laravel/Symphony/B24], GoLang, gRPC/Protobuf, Dart, Flutter, React, Redux, Next.js, MySQL, PGSQL, Clickhouse, RabbitMQ, Centrifugo, OpenAPI, OpenTelemetry, Kubernetes, ArgoCD)
• Implementation of smog tests in production; automated regression testing of releases; automation toolkits for QA engineers
• Implementation of incident management with automated escalation (Grafana OnCall); introduction of duty in critical departments
• Information security, №152 federal act (GDPR); Security penetration testing; runned CI/CD security pipeline in development team
• Centralized secure storage for services and employees (Vault, Bitwarden)
• Implementation of a single authorization window in internal information systems (Keycloak, Kerberos)
• Server resources clustering, 2 clusters (Proxmox hypervisor, HP Blade System, All-Flash SAN System)
• Direct support, escort and control of the company's key projects
• Operational efficiency and performance management
• Participation in the strategic planning of the company
• Planning and control of budgeting of the IT department, including wage fund
• Actuality and updating the technical stack in accordance with business requirements
• Architecture design and DWH development, ETL processing, safe DWH (CI/CD; Airflow; PostgreSQL; own migrator; gateway for main product on GoLang with gRPC/Protobuf; migration old dwh MSSQL to new DWH PG, PowerBI, Superset, isolated sandboxes for data engineers)
• Developed and implemented a common universal business metrics monitoring system withdepartment segmentation (custom triger, searching anomaly, alerta.io)
• Centralized management of network infrastructure and print control at >90 branches across the country
• Centralized management, procurement, and maintenance of IT equipment at >90 branches across the country
• Digitalization of internal business processes in all departments company
• Actively implementing GPT in processes to automate and reduce costs
• Building business processes and organization of fault-tolerant internal and product infrastructure of the company 24/7/356
• Formation of a stable and professional IT department team
• Conducted more than 1000 interviews in more than 20 specialties
• and many other features and developments...
• Direct management of departments:
  • Development (Frontend, Backend, QA, QA Automatisation, Project/Product management, UX/UI Design)
  • DevOps (product infrastructure, kubernetes, dev envirement, etc...)
  • System administration (employee hardware and software, network, server hardware support)
  • Analytics, Data and BI Engineering (DWH, ETL, BI)
  • Support (first line for employee, single window)
  • BPM system (business process management, sale department)
  • ERP system (financial management, accounting, human resources department, human recruitment department, paymasters operation)
  • SIP telephony (organization of work of 3 call centers)

Head of the IT branch

May 2015 - May 2020

CarPrice, Moscow

• Opening of IT departments of the development department in Kirov and St. Petersburg on a turnkey basis:
  • recruitment and training of a full-stack team (backend/frontend/QA manual and automated) / dismissal;
  • cost estimates, office equipment, accounting, personnel and legal issues, communication with contractors of all directions;
  • formation of autonomous units;
  • solving life support issues for teams;
  • performance review, one2one meet, adaptation meeting.
• Participation in the formation of the technological stack in the company's products.
• Active implementation of best practice in development processes, implementation of the enterprise approach.
• Active participation in the development of Core products as a developer, project manager and product manager.
• Participation in OKR planning and protection.
• Administration and consulting of an international outsourcing development team in a Japanese project.
• Social responsibility: successful experience nurturing juniors into leaders who are taken to top companies.

A supporter of Agile, SOA, DevSecOps, SPA.
I use PHP, Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, ELK, Jira

Lead and Core Developer

April 2014 - May 2015

CarPrice, Moscow

Developing an MVP product as the sole Backend and JS developer. Intensive development in a very short time, thanks to which, after 7 months, it is possibled to attract investments in a successfully working product.

Club Chairman

October 2006 - May 2015

Sports Club X-Kirov (volunteer activities)

Founder of a bicycle sports club. Organisation and holding of competitions of regional and federal levels. Conducting organisational activities. Creating a club team. Recognisability of the club at the federal level.

Founder

April 2008 - January 2014

Hostmile

Virtual hosting on your own servers. Own self-written billing and an automated control panel for hosting services, integration with payment systems. Secure shared customer accounts. Monitoring of software and hardware infrastructure, hardware maintenance.

Served as commercial and technical directors, architect and full stack developer.

Fullstack Developer

November 2010 - June 2013

Linemedia

Processing of components, modules and core systems "auto.linemedia" (saas-shop for the search and delivery of auto parts). Technical support, prompt diagnostics and problem solving on client projects.

Stack: PHP / MySQL / Sphinx / JavaScript / Devops

Founder

April 2008 - July 2011

Flango

An web-agency specializing in complex tasks and high load solutions. Recovery of higher problems in large projects, consulting. Served as commercial and technical directors, architect and backend developer.

Stack: PHP / MySQL / JavaScript / DevOps / Security

Informatics, Applied Informatics [Master, Specialist]

2008

Branch of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Kirov

Automated Information Processing and Management Systems [Bachelor]

2006

Modern Humanitarian Academy, Moscow

Informatics and Computer Engineering

The best team

August, 2017

CarPrice

The best IT Employee of the Year

January, 2015

CarPrice