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About the company

METTA is a major Russian manufacturer of innovative ergonomic armchairs for home and office, with a full production cycle of armchairs, chairs and tables on a metal frame. Operating for over 25 years, supplying products to more than 45 countries worldwide, with in-house manufacturing and a 3-stage ISO-9000 quality control system.

Responsibilities

• AI strategy and roadmap: identifying business processes where AI adoption yields impact; forming the AI initiative roadmap; prioritizing by impact, complexity and timeline; determining build vs buy solutions; aligning strategy with business goals.
• Management of AI solution development and implementation.
• Economic evaluation of AI projects: calculating potential impact before launch; evaluating development and implementation costs; calculating ROI; measuring post-implementation impact; terminating non-performing projects.
• Cultivating AI culture across the company: training employees on using AI tools; developing guidelines for AI usage; assisting departments with articulating tasks for AI; building a library of typical AI use cases; mitigating change resistance.
• Risk control: implementing rules for safe AI usage; controlling work with personal and commercial data; verifying AI response quality; mitigating hallucination risks; defining mandatory human-in-the-loop checkpoints; participating in drafting AI safety and ethics policies.

Achievements

• Analyzed operations of over 20 company departments and proposed over 50 process optimization projects leveraging AI.
• Designed and implemented an automated price-list generation system for chair configurations. Stack: Svelte, SvelteKit, TailwindCSS.

Reason for leaving

Differing vision regarding process optimization approaches and terms of further collaboration.

About the company

SKOLKOVO Moscow School of Management is one of the leading private business schools in Russia and the CIS, founded in 2006 on the initiative of the business community. The School holds the international EQUIS accreditation (held by about 1% of business schools worldwide) and has its own campus near Moscow. The portfolio of educational programs covers every stage of business development — from startups to large corporations — including MBA, Executive MBA and corporate education programs. More than 12,000 students go through the School's corporate programs every year.

Responsibilities

• Development: design and delivery of the company's internal and external web services and systems.
• Architecture: designing system architecture with the C4 notation, planning integrations between services, preparing diagrams (sequence, use-case, BPMN, flowchart, c4).
• Analytics and product work: gathering requirements from stakeholders, functional and product modeling of systems, mapping out user scenarios.
• Team management: led several teams (up to 8 people), handled planning, task setting and prioritization, code review, quality and deadline control.
• Estimation: estimated effort, timelines and architectural risks.
• DevOps: deploying systems, configuring servers, integrating services.
• AI: building and embedding AI agents and agentic systems into the company's workflows.

Achievements

• "AI Champion" award — Leader of AI Innovation at the School (2025).
• Skolkovo ID — designed and owned the single-sign-on identification product to improve customer experience and integrate user data with the School's internal systems. Responsible for architecture, task setting and acceptance. Stack: PHP (Laravel), Vue 3, Inertia, Reka UI.
• Alumni clubs platform — designed and owned the product for the Alumni Community: members apply to join clubs, club heads handle the applications and manage the roster, including external experts. Stack: Telegram client, Next.js admin panel.
• Chart rendering microservice — designed and built a service to render charts on the School's landing pages, integrated into Twill as a custom CMS block. Stack: PHP, React.
• Gift-management system — designed and built an internal product for the School's managers: composing gift orders for clients and partners, tracking inventory, keeping counterparty data up to date. Stack: Next.js, shadcn/ui.
• Corporate appreciation system — designed and built an internal service for ~600 employees of the School: colleagues and managers thank each other through the year and the results are summarized and awarded at year end. Stack: PHP (Laravel).
• Verification of private Telegram-channel users — service that vets clients of the School for access to closed channels. Stack: TypeScript, Next.js.
• Random Coffee — designed and led development of an internal Telegram service for employees: automatic random pairings of colleagues for coffee meetings at a chosen cadence, for networking inside the School. Stack: Go.
• Agentic platform for the corporate Teamly knowledge base — designed and built an agent platform letting employees create their own agents and granularly scope access to knowledge spaces and agents. Refactored the system in parallel, extracting a shared core. Stack: Python, FastAPI, CI/CD, bash.
• AI search across the School website — participated in the design of intelligent search across the corporate website.
• Grant application processing automation — designed and led a project to automatically process grant applications for the School's educational programs with AI agents. Stack: Go.
• Professional development: completed the SKOLKOVO × ScrumTrek "Agile and hybrid project-management approaches" program.

Reason for leaving

Organizational changes within the company.

About the company

Founded my own company specialised in project-based product development.

Responsibilities

• Managed and delivered projects end to end — from concept to launch — including planning, development and rolling out solutions for clients.
• Frontend: built interfaces and features in JavaScript (TypeScript) and SvelteKit for modern web apps.
• Backend: built high-throughput asynchronous services with Rust and the Tokio runtime. Worked on server-side logic and architecture with NestJS and Prisma over PostgreSQL.
• Deployment: used Docker for containerisation and GitLab CI for build and deploy automation.

About the company

The company develops, supports and tests software across a wide range — from mobile apps to websites.

Responsibilities

• Expertise: estimated effort and elicited requirements for information systems.
• Architecture design and implementation: designed and implemented architectures for various web apps, including admin panels and user interfaces. Participated in the full development cycle — from design to deployment.
• Frontend: used JavaScript (TypeScript) with React and Next.js to build interactive and responsive user interfaces.
• Backend: worked with PHP (Laravel), Java (Spring), and JavaScript (TypeScript) with NestJS and Express to build reliable, scalable server solutions. Used PostgreSQL for data.

Achievements

• Built the backend, API and admin panel for an events-management system.
• Took part in designing a large high-load e-commerce platform.
• Designed and built an admin panel for a small online shop.
• Participated in design, made architectural decisions and built an internal electronic document workflow and assignments management system.

Reason for leaving

Persistent salary payment delays.

About the company

The company has been building information systems and software products for more than 20 years, providing a complete approach to automating large, high-complexity systems thanks to built-in self-regulation and a unique data organisation and storage model.

Responsibilities

• Frontend: development in JavaScript with React and Ant Design to build usable, functional UIs.
• Backend: development in Java with Apache Tomcat and GraphQL to build reliable server solutions and APIs.

Achievements

• Maintained legacy code in JavaScript ES5.
• Built a navigation menu in JavaScript (TypeScript) and Next.js.
• Took part in building an educational platform, both frontend and backend.

Reason for leaving

Decided to switch jobs to seek new professional challenges and growth opportunities.

Taught students programming and development. My students are successfully employed in various roles, including frontend and backend developers — PHP, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin engineers, as well as UI/UX designers and other specialists.

Responsibilities

Taught students in a variety of subjects, including

Designing and building web applications;

Internet technologies and publishing data on the Internet;

Database design and protection;

Fundamentals of programming;

Machine learning and big data;

Mobile app development;

Information systems code development;

Fundamentals of information systems design and development.

Developed curricula, ran lectures and practical sessions, evaluated student results and provided feedback for their professional growth.

Taught the following technologies

Programming languages: PHP, C++, C#, Java, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Python;

Databases: SQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, OracleDB, MySQL, SQLite;

Tools and frameworks: Figma, WordPress, Laravel, NestJS, Express, React, Next.js, Vue.js, Svelte, SvelteKit, Mocha, Jest, Vite, Docker.

Reason for leaving

Decided to switch jobs to focus on my own professional growth and expand my developer skill set.

Freelance web development: delivered many projects of varying scale — from landing pages and online stores to corporate sites and information platforms.