Alexey Popkov
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Head of Engineering, Marketplace
Netherlands
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Head of Engineering, MarketplaceTolokaJan 2026 - Current (9 months)- Full-stack Engineering ManagerTolokaSep 2023 - Jan 2026 (2 years 5 months)• Scaled GenAI supply infrastructure: Built a new payment system handling >€1 M per cycle and an automated motivation engine for 250K+ candidates, slashing manual processing by 70% and enabling GDPR‑compliant data deletion.
• Optimized hiring pipelines: Designed a Directus‑based CRM for resource managers, processing 100K+ applications and hiring 2K+ experts; cut time costs for setup sourcing process from 3–4 days to 1.5 hours.
• Modernized workflow orchestration: Adopted Temporal for real‑time pipelines and integrated with Workable, candidate verification, bootcamp, and GDPR flows.
• Automated syncs & ops: Migrated Zendesk and Mellow synchronizations to Temporal, boosting fault tolerance, auto‑resolving conflicts, and savi - Frontend Engineering ManagerTolokaSep 2021 - Sep 2023 (2 years 1 month)• Led the requester module of Toloka, our most data‑intensive UI: managed a 5‑person frontend squad, championed our design system, and drove performance optimizations to speed up interface load and interaction.
• Overhauled i18n workflows: rolled out new translations management system, streamlined translation pipeline, reducing localization errors and manual overhead.
• Built visual regression testing with Storybook & Chromatic, catching layout and styling issues early and slashing visual bugs before release.
• Open‑sourced Template Builder (TB) and repo‑lens, driving broader design‑system adoption and enabling teams across the org to ship consistent components.
• Boosted performance visibility by integrating Sentry for - Frontend DeveloperYandexMar 2018 - Sep 2021 (3 years 7 months)• Rebuilt Test Management System for thousands of QA users: led a 1.5‑year migration from a Java/Spring monolith and AngularJS 1.6 to a horizontally scalable Node.js backend and React + MobX frontend, doubling peak RPS on ~90 % less hardware.
• Revamped Goal Management Platform: architected a Node.js BFF, migrated data storage to Yandex Tracker, and spearheaded a 6‑month rewrite of the UI from Backbone + Marionette to React + Redux.
• Turbocharged performance: cut goal‑tree build times from ~30 s to ~5 s (6× faster) and delivered interactive planning interfaces with dynamic tables and real‑time updates. - FFull-stack DeveloperJan 2017 - Mar 2018 (1 year 3 months)• Built bulletproof login & media portals for Consultant.ru, guaranteeing 99.9% uptime and sub‑500 ms page loads on IE8 running on decade‑old hardware.
• Engineered backend services with PHP (Yii2) & PostgreSQL, layered Redis caching and Nginx load balancing—cutting average query times by 40% and scaling capacity 2× under peak traffic.
• Developed a custom jQuery UI framework for rapid prototyping, slashing time‑to‑prototype by 60% and speeding up UI iterations across projects.
• Introduced React to the team: delivered a full‑featured access‑management admin panel—complete with large dynamic tables and in‑place editing—in under one m
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- Russian State Social UniversityRussian State Social UniversityJan 2013 - Jan 2017 (4 years 1 month)