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Alexey Zolotyh

Engineering Manager

About

Engineering Manager with 18+ years of software development experience. Currently leading a department of 40+ engineers across 4 cross-functional teams building web-based editors with real-time collaboration. Focused on technology strategy, reliability, performance, MTTR reduction, and growing people — from juniors to team leads.

Key Competencies

  • Engineering leadership: building and scaling cross-functional teams up to 40+ people, team leads, people management, hiring.
  • Technology strategy: multi-year strategies, architectural decisions, technical due diligence.
  • Reliability & Performance: SRE, metrics, postmortems, Web Vitals, MTTR reduction.
  • Product delivery: Kanban, Agile, CI/CD, lead time reduction, deployment acceleration.
  • Architecture: web editors, real-time collaboration, OT/CRDT, WebSocket, microservices, serverless, Kubernetes.

Key Impact

  • Leading a department of 40+ engineers (backend Java/Go, frontend TypeScript, C++, QA, UX).
  • Reduced deployment cycle from weeks to hours.
  • Improved collaborative editing performance up to 7×, increased active collaborators from 10 to 50.
  • Increased team throughput by ~30% and reduced lead time by ~20% after moving to Kanban.
  • Introduced Sentry and postmortem reviews, reducing errors by ~10%.
  • Mentored 4 engineers into team leads who now run teams at other companies; dozens of engineers promoted in grade (junior→middle, middle→senior).
  • Ranked in the top 5% of employees in performance reviews three times.

Experience

MyOffice

Senior Engineering Manager · Saint Petersburg · August 2022 — Present

  • Lead a department of 40+ specialists, including 4 teams with their own team leads: backend Java/Go, frontend TypeScript, C++, QA, UX, and test automation.
  • Established an engineering growth practice: regular grade promotions and team lead preparation.
  • Developed and defended a 5-year technology strategy focused on Reliability, Performance, Availability, and MTTR reduction.
  • Reduced the deployment cycle from weeks to hours and moved Web Vitals into the green zone.
  • Rebuilt the development process around Kanban: throughput increased by ~30% and average lead time decreased by ~20%.
  • Led a cross-functional team optimizing collaborative editing (OT, CRDT, WebSocket): performance up to 7×, collaborators from 10 to 50.
  • Designed and oversaw a platform integration of web editors with an AI assistant.
  • Built a prototype for summarizing large files on k3s, Apache APISIX, and RustFS.
  • Introduced Sentry and postmortem reviews, cutting errors by ~10%.
  • Launched the MyOffice API website and migrated documentation from PDF to web.
  • Speaker at Codefest, HolyJS, FrontendConf, nastachku.ru, and DUMP. Three times in the top 5% by performance review.

EPAM Systems

Team Leader / Solution Architect · Moscow · August 2020 — August 2022

  • Team Lead / Solution Architect on commercial projects in Healthcare and Agritech (Syngenta).
  • Resource manager for 8 engineers: growth, promotions, performance reviews, task allocation, 50+ interviews.
  • Participated in the promotion committee.
  • Led a healthcare project: a platform for launching Jupyter Notebook sandboxes for medical and research tasks.
  • Led an AWS serverless team for Syngenta (Lambda, DynamoDB, S3, SQS, SNS).
  • Conducted architecture reviews, shaped corporate standards, and participated in presales.
  • Taught an internal Node.js course. Received a personal recognition badge from EPAM CEO Arkadiy Dobkin.

Infobip

Team Lead · Saint Petersburg · February 2019 — August 2020

  • Led a cross-functional team (3 backend + 3 frontend) responsible for the user portal of a large communication platform.
  • Designed and rolled out a unified RBAC model across the platform, migrating 20+ product teams.
  • Introduced code review, CI/CD, on-call rotations, and release automation.
  • Stack: Java, Kotlin, Docker, Kafka, Node.js, React, microservices, REST, SQL, Git.

Wrike

Senior Frontend Developer / Architect · Saint Petersburg · December 2015 — February 2019

  • Participated in product architecture development and backend / frontend collaboration.
  • Worked with legacy code, refactoring, and build / CI/CD infrastructure.
  • Spoke at conferences.