I started my first job in IT in 2001, joined a small company in Volzhsky (Volgograd region, Russia) as a sysadmin, was doing network support and Active Directory maintenance and support.

In 2004 became a web-developer, did lots of javascript/html/css/php then some .NET. Had lots of fun supporting IE5.5, IE6, Opera 7+ :)

Assembled my first team in 2007, but was still also coding at the time.

Since 2016 I stopped coding professionally, doing it only occasionally now — I became a fulltime EM / teamlead.

I also started mentoring Engineering Managers in 2017.

Teaching, mentoring, lecturing — essentially helping others — is my passion.

All my talks can be found on youtube.

Sometimes companies approach me and ask to give talks for their peeps, which I of course love to do. I was giving talks in Rocketbank, Badoo, Am-tech, mail.ru, Pixonic, Softwise, DouDouGames.

I believe that being as transparent as possible is the way, so I try putting all my thoughts in the github repo.

I work at Qase — we help companies build and maintain good product quality with our great TMS

Want to chat? I'm always available in telegram.