Alexei Maistrenka

VP of Engineering

Medvidi

Sep 2023 - Current (3 years)

Acting as a CTO, - Increased delivery speed by 3 times by reconfiguring the process and creating full-cycle cross-functional self organized teams with no managers and team leads. Resulted in multiple releases every day vs. monthly releases in the past, having a monolith architecture. - Improved the quality of the product by increasing autotest coverage from 0 to 60%, which reduced the number of bugs in production by 5 times. Completely changed the mindset from "We don't know how to write tests” to “How can we not write tests?” - Reduced the number of production incidents by dozens of times by conducting an infrastructure audit and rework with a focus on fixing architectural problems. No more downtimes since Feb 2024. - Implemented HIPAA co

Senior Director Of Engineering

PandaDoc

Jun 2022 - Sep 2023 (1 year 4 months)

- Over three years, I reduced the level of staff turnover in the track from 15% to almost 0. - Led the quality section in the PD engineering strategy, contributing to achieving uptime of 99.99%. - Successfully developed a successor who was promoted to the position of Director of Engineering.

Director Of Engineering

PandaDoc

Apr 2020 - Jun 2022 (2 years 3 months)

- Launched Growth Engineering Track, expanding engineering teams from 2 to 10 in 2 years with focus on acquisition, activation, monetization, and expansion. - Led product engineering organization transformation, growing team size from 50 to 250 in 2.5 years alongside other directors. - Recruited and onboarded 50 engineers through outstaffing, overseeing their integration across engineering departments. - Promoted 4 Staff engineers and 3 Engineering managers within the team. - Doubled annual product releases without increasing staff by optimizing team setup and delivery processes in final year of role. - Implemented initiative halving engineering onboarding time, evolving into comprehensive L&D and Bootcamp program.

RnD Group Manager

Playtika

Apr 2019 - Apr 2020 (1 year 1 month)

As a Playtika casual games Infrastructure division manager, - Executed development and incident management for high-load applications across a diverse portfolio of casual games. - Managed the migration of the infrastructure of several casual games (40M ARR) from Windows to Linux server, successfully completing the project on time. - Managed the migration of part of the infrastructure, increasing the speed of development of games backend components by 2 times.

Head of Operations

Verv

Apr 2018 - Apr 2019 (1 year 1 month)

- Optimized engineering setup to support scaling from 35 to 95 employees - Led the development and launch of Meditation & Sleep app and VERV super-app

Site Lead | Head of Mobile PoS Development

Kibo Commerce

May 2017 - May 2018 (1 year 1 month)

- Led the development office to ensure seamless product transition to US post M&A, maintaining performance metrics. - Oversaw product integration into parent platform and facilitated transfer to development and support teams.

Co-Founder / R&D Director

Lean Technologies

Aug 2012 - Jul 2016 (4 years)

- Co-founded a digital agency in Copenhagen, Denmark, focusing on real estate, e-commerce, and social sectors. - Established and managed the R&D office, overseeing recruitment, administration, and promoting teamwork. - Oversaw complete project lifecycle from initiation to delivery. - Handled daily client interactions and support for satisfactory project results.

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Co-Founder

Amerikaby

Jan 2009 - Jul 2012 (3 years 7 months)

Collaborated with my partner to spearhead the development of a highly successful car shipping company from inception to TOP5 in the country reaching a turnover of $1 million in a first year. I played a pivotal role in overseeing sales and marketing, managing operational functions, and cultivating strategic partnerships with key US vendors and shippers. Innovated and implemented a range of growth-hacking and marketing strategies that not only fueled our own success but were emulated by competitors, establishing enduring industry practices.

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