Alexey Bokov Contacts: +1-425-320-83-99 / bokov@bokov.net / http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexeybokov / http://github.com/abokov Location: Sunnyvale, CA Professional Experience --- Microsoft: Technical Evangelist & Project Manager: Microsoft Russia (2011-2018), Microsoft US : from 2018 - present - Lead architecture design and code-with efforts for top tier enterprise customers worldwide, portfolio with these industries: * Security ( 5 Global ISV ), * Travel and Transportation ( 2 Enterprise Customers ), * Tax & Finance ( 2 Enterprises), * Global SI ( 3 Global System Integrators ), * Global Sport events - 2014 Sochi Olympic Game backend ( pre-games stage ). - Trusted technical advisor - more than 17 Azure certifications, inlcuding DevOps Expert, Solutions Architect Expert and Cloud Platform and Infrastructure Expert. - Recognized cloud expert - long time technical reviewer for Packt Publishing ( reviewer for 8 Azure books and one GCP book ). - Experienced PM with leadership/PM certifications: Product School ( Leadership and Procuct Executive ), 6 Sigma Green Belt - Business and product mentor for startup community - instuctor and speaker for Skolkovo Startup School from 2019 - Technical Mentor for CalHack (Community hackathon by Berkley) from 2019 - Run and lead hands-on events - workshops on customer side, hackathons, community events ( first CloudCamp in CEE ), founder of Azure developers group on Facebook - more than 2k devs now. - Awards achieved: Microsoft Russia Q4 Hero ( 2014 ) - for significant impact on Azure revenue, CEE Sharefighter ( 2013 ) - impact on Azure marketshare on CEE level --- LG Electronics RUS - from September 2010 to October 2011: Principal architect (AWS) and Project Manager - Responsible for global dev project, manage and lead as PM 7 geo distrubuted teams in 4 location with budget of 1.5 $ M - Build up end customer facing cloud storage application from a scratch - POC in 3 month, beta 6 month. - Developed product deployed and used as core cloud storage technology on LG - Project hosted on AWS, client side - Android/iPhone, web and SmartTV --- GridDynamics Consulting / Questora ( 2008 - 2010 ): Team lead and Development Manager - Lead a distributed team of 12 engineers ( Russia, US, China ) - Build outsource development center and geodistributed from a scratch in 4 months. - People manager, stakeholder management, technical pre-sales activities - Hands-on on java, C++, python, bash, perl. All code is AWS hosted. - 4 customer facing projects delivered --- Yandex.ru ( 2006-2008 ) : Senior engineer in search engine core team - Created and owned CI/CD framework whihc improved search enginer release cycle from 4 months to 2 days - Responsible for front-end engine for market leader managing more than 70% of search traffic in Russia - Strategic planning and research for search engine technologies - Development process improvement - introduced CI/CD process and build-in-code fault checking mechanics for codebase of 200 devs organization - Distributed development team management and collaboration - Tools: C++, CVS, gdb, perl, bash, Apache, BoundsChecker --- Russia-On-Line ( 2003-2006 ): lead architect and team lead - Own all full stack code base (C++, IIS ) for search engine, including crawler, indexing, spam protection, search, front-end/back-end, etc - Lead and own roadmap and key architecture desicions - Build up and manage team of 4 senior engineers - Implemented from a scratch - suggestion search, spam protection, doorway detection, XML search, memory allocation engine. search thought XML databases, etc. - Manage codebase on search engine server cluster of 100 servers ( 40 indexing, 40 search, 10 front-end + 10 additional searches and services) - Project incoming indexing traffic is about a 105 Gb per day, - User requests - one million per day - Database size - more than 4 Tb, indexed documents > 250 Millions (as documents) and > 800 million documents indexed by links ( images, mp3, etc ). --- Software Systems and Technologies ( 1998 - 2003 ): software developer - Hired at age 17 as full time software engineer. - Created from a scratch developer tools for smart card OS: macro-assembler, debugger code, ANSI C compliter, developer toolkit, P-Code Virtual Machine.