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My name is Marat Bakirov and I am a Senior Software Engineering Manager with experience managing large teams of engineers. I am skilled in implementing agile methodologies, cross-functional team leadership, and strategic planning. My technical skills include PHP, GoLang, Javascript, and various databases and messaging systems. I am also certified in elasticsearch and kanban system design. I have a strong interest in SDLC processes and have led several key projects in my previous roles, including successful product development and kanban/scrum methodology implementation.

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Experience

Head Information Technology Development at SBER EAPTEKA

November 2022 – Present · Moscow, Russia · Hybrid

Managing 7 tribes (~300 dev and QA engineers). Responsible of all product initiatives development and delivery processes. Accountable of tech debt, human resources, quality assurance and 24/7 products availability.

Head of technology, e-commerce at SBER EAPTEKA

January 2022 – November 2022 · Moscow, Russia · Hybrid

Managing 7 dev teams (~80 dev and QA engineers). Leading the monolith decomposition process, EDA and SOA implementation, PHP to GoLang transition. As a senior SDM led the kanban to scrum transition, scrum metrics development and implementation.

Products: SBER EAPTEKA website and mobile app.

Key projects: Kanban to Scrum transition, Teams scrum reporting protocols, Teams performance metrics, Developers quality metrics, Technical debt management process.

Head of Software Engineering at SBER EAPTEKA

April 2021 – January 2022 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

At this position I was responsible for the all development processes at the company (~150 engineers), reviewing, managing and aligning processes in different teams. As a result was created a new domain-driven tribe scheme with cross-functional teams that was implemented with new CTO.

Key projects: Agile methodologies implementation, Spotify Tribe model adaptation and implementation, Organisational and functional structures reformation, Implementation of world leading software development processes and practices, Incident management process, Software development regulations.

Engineering Team Lead at SBER EAPTEKA

September 2017 – April 2021 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Lead of web development teams. Team grew from 3 up to 30 engineers, so we've started working with CI/CD processes, QA processes. When team size was 20 engineers we had to transform it to several cross-functional teams to grows continues.

Products: websites www.eapteka.ru and www.piluli.ru, EAPTEKA mobile app, advertising system NEON.

Key projects: Migration of piluli.ru (custom php framework) to the eapteka.ru engine, Web application clusterization and scaling, Code review as a process, QA/QC processes implementation, CI/CD processes implementation, Team redesign, Communication patterns rearrangement.

Senior PHP Developer at SBER EAPTEKA

January 2016 – September 2017 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Public products development and support in integrations with ERP and CRM systems.

Products: web site www.eapteka.ru and bunch of internal web-based products.

Key projects: checkout refactoring, catalog refactoring, search with elasticseach engine, mobile app API.

Achievements: brand new checkout and catalog components that works to this day in base, catalog performance was increased up to 75%.

Senior PHP Developer at Aero eCommerce Agency

August 2015 – January 2016 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Backend (PHP) development for clients projects, SAP and ERP systems integrations, development of highloaded web applications.

Key projects: Alba online shop (shoes retailer), Kari online shop (shoes retailer), Nikon online shop (consumer electronics retailer).

Chief Technology Officer at Anima Interactive Agency

July 2014 - August 2015 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Responsibility for all development processes, sales calculation and estimation, clients negotiations, people management

Team Lead at Anima Interactive Agency

January 2012 - July 2014 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Led a small team of 3 full-stack developers to develop client projects. Development and implementation of new technologies and processes. Managing relationships with contractors.

Full stack web developer at Anima Interactive Agency

September 2010 - January 2012 · Moscow, Russia · On-site

Backend (PHP) and frontend (HTML5/SCSS/JS) development for clients projects.

Digital product manager at Kursiv Media

September 2008 - September 2010 · Almaty, Kazakhstan · On-site

Leading of digital transformation process from offline newspaper to online media, management of website development and growth.

System Administrator at Kursiv Media

September 2007 - September 2008 · Almaty, Kazakhstan · On-site

Servers administration (Ubuntu, Fedora), LAN management, IT procurement, CRM software integration.

System Administrator at Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation

September 2003 - April 2005 · Krasnoyarsk, Russia · On-site

Servers administration (Windows), LAN management, IT procurement.

Contact

[email protected] +995 (591) 095-388 LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook

Based in Tbilisi, Georgia


Education

Engineer in economy Siberian State Technological University, 2007 Krasnoyarsk, Russia


Skills

Professional

Community development Engineering management Team leadership Agile methodologies Kanban Scrum Cross-functional team leadership Cross-functional team building Cross-team collaboration Community development Strategic planning

Technical

PHP GoLang Javascript Github Gitlab Elasticsearch PostgreSQL MySQL MSSQL Redis Keydb RabbitMQ Apache Kafka Nginx Apache CentOS Linux Laravel Bitrix Symfony Microservices


Certifications

Elasticsearch engineer II Elastic April 2019

Kanban System Design Kanban University December 2020

Kanban System Improvement Kanban University February 2021


Languages

English Professional working proficiency (C1)

Russian Native or bilingual proficienc