Software Engineer and Manager

Intro

Hi, my name is Aliaksei, I am an Engineer and a Manager who knows how to create great software and how to do it properly together with other people.

I have deep experience connected with designing, developing and supporting in production backend services with strong performance and availability requirements.

Awesome software is much easier to create in a team. And I am able to lead a group of engineers or a cross-functional team to achieve great and ambitious goals.

E-mail: [e-mail]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aramanau/

Experience

Company, role	Years	Description
Predicted, Chief Technology Officer	[2022..2023]	Developing B2B SAAS product for mobile subscription analytics.
Wargaming, Engineering Team Lead	[2018..2022]	Key contributing to Wargaming Platform backend services, managing team of [8..16] engineers.
Wargaming, Lead Software Engineer	[2017..2018]	Creating and implementing solutions for Wargaming Platform, performing technical leadership in Backend engineering
Wargaming, Senior Software Engineer	[2014..2017]	Designing, developing and maintaining critical business applications with strong performance and availability requirements.
Melesta Games, Software Engineer	[2011-2014]	Developing game servers, meta-games and core web services for web, social and mobile games.
VirusBlokAda, Software engieer, QA Engineer	[2006-2011]	Ensure quality of the anti-virus kernel, developing a system for kernel tests automation.

Education

University	Years	Degree
Belarusian State University	[2008..2009]	Master degree in Computer Security
Belarusian National Technical University	[2003..2008]	Software Engineering Diploma (bachelor's degree)

Skills

Skill	Type	Level	Extra context
Software Engineering	Hard		Backend dev, Game dev(backend), BI dev
People Management	Soft		Engineering Team Leader for about 4 years, CTO for about 1 year with EM responsibilities
Resource Management	HardSoft		Effective managing personal/team/company resources: time, money, hw resources.
Quality Assurance	Hard
Solution Architecture	Hard		High-level system desing, careful pre-production for complex features, solution verification.
Software Maintenance	Hard		Organizing rotation on duty, problem-solving in production, .
Performance testing & optimization	Hard
Project & Delivery Management	Soft		Organizing teamwork, planning & performing complex delivieries.

Top Projects

Predicted

Predicted is a B2B platform for mobile developers and publishers which allows to estimate revenue and other significant metrics using variety of statistical models. It provide simple APIs for integrating and supports variety of features for increasing campaign performance - Grabbing and visualizing data from all media sources, SKAN optimization by erevenue, Web2Web flow, eLTV machine with multiple models and real-time interface and more.

Technology Stack: Python/SQL/PostgreSQL/Airflow/Tableau

Infrastructure providers: AWS/Hetzner

https://predicted.io/

Wargaming Money

WGM is a backend service for keeping hard and soft currencies in games, which is used by all major Wargaming titles like World of Tanks and World of Warships. It has sharded database and run over Erlang/OTP cluster. WGM was designed to process 50k RPS with 95% latency < 100 ms. Observed availability during 5 years in production: 99.99%.

Technology Stack: Erlang/Python/PostgreSQL/RabbitMQ/Nginx

Depot

Depot is a backend service for storing in-game inventory, which is used for Platform Commerce cases and big game titles like World of Tanks. It has well-designed database model with sharding and partitioning and run over Elixir/OTP cluster. Observed availability during 2 years in production: 99.99%.

Technology Stack: Elixir/Python/PostgreSQL/RabbitMQ/Nginx

Micro Api Gateway

MAG is a set of Platform APIs used by big Wargaming Titles like World of Tanks and World of Worships. Well-designed and developed according to KISS/YAGNI principles with strong performance requirements and 99.95% SLA. Observed availability during 5 years in production: 99.95%.

Tech Stack: Elixir/OTP/Redis/Nginx/RabbitMQ

Melesta Game Servers

A family of asynchronous game servers and services around web/mobile/social games. Created in a startup style using rapid dev practices. However, logic was weel-tested by functional and performance tests.

Tech Stack: Python/Twisted/MySQL/Redis