Engineering Manager / Deputy Head of Development with 14+ years in software engineering, including Tech Lead and EM roles in high-load, distributed product environments.
My current focus is engineering execution, predictable delivery, technical risk management, and AI-assisted SDLC transformation. I have managed engineering through leads across 3-7 teams and 25-40 FE/BE developers, covering complex product domains such as loyalty, bonuses, tournaments, gamification, third-party integrations, and legal/compliance-related systems.
I come from a strong Ruby/Rails and architecture background: event-driven systems, Kafka/RabbitMQ, PostgreSQL, Redis, observability, monitoring, SLO/SLA setup, cost optimization, throttling, batching, and high-throughput services.
A separate area of focus is AI SDLC: moving AI-assisted development from ad-hoc prompting toward structured, auditable, vendor-agnostic engineering workflows with contracts, tooling, benchmarks, replayability, evidence gates, and human review.