Alexander Zheludkov

Experience

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  Ugra News

  Jun 2009 - Apr 2012

  Deputy editor-in-chief

  - In 2010, developed and launched new streamlined print version of the newspaper- In 2011, launched ugra-news.ru, the digital version of the newspaper, being responsible for its development and growth from the outset- Managed the newsroom's news flow and shaped day-to-day print and digital news storytelling to ensure audience and revenue growth- Oversaw various workstreams from media planning to customer support - Liaised with numerous teams (commercials, IT, print, etc.) to boost newsroom efficiency Show less

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  Muksun.fm

  Dec 2011 - Aug 2016

  Editor-in-chief

  - In 2011, started Muksun.fm, a leading online news agency in the Ugra region (Russia)- Led the launch of Muksun.fm, making it profitable in the first half year- Overseeing all news agency workstreams ranging from the brand development to editorial policy- Responsible for the agency's strategy development and its implementation (to drive conversions from the website visits) - Leading various teams (writers, IT, customers support) to ensure coherence with the agency’s vision- Leading the agency’s development in order to capitalise on various local opportunities- Doubled agency's revenue growth and readership audience from 2014 to 2016- Responsible for analysing KPIs to achieve growth and profitability. - Developed cooperation with key clients (regional and municipal authorities, Gazprom neft, Rosneft, Utair etc.) Show less

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  EPAM Systems

  Oct 2017 - now

  Worked for the leading provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries, public libraries, corporations, schools, government and medical institutions. Goal was to refactor legacy system into a modern, cloud-based microservice architecture with scaling seasonal workloads, leading to significant cost reductions.Worked in team who built ingestion pipeline compatible with legacy data from publishers on one side and new-born search system and applications on another side. Also team developed mapping engine - special microservice able to map fields from different producers to customer's format.Tools & Technologies: Oracle, AWS (DynamoDB, Glue, Lambda, S3, RDS, ECS, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, IAM), Jenkins, Git, Rally, Confluence, SonarQube, Java 8, Python, Groovy Show less Search engine for medical data.Customer has a vast amount of clinical study data and other data sources within and external to it. They need to have an search engine on the metadata repository to show the results of the user searches in a user friendly manner. Customer has engaged EPAM to implement Elasticsearch capability on the metadata repository stored in the cloud environment to display the results of the user searches.Participation: Developed ontology and synonyms search with ElasticsearchResearched principles of JSON creation from SAS-filesExplored principles of Elasticsearch indexing, mapping and searching.Tools & Technologies: Elasticsearch, Amazon S3, Amazon SQS, Amazon EC2, Spring Boot Show less

  • Lead Software Engineer

    Apr 2022 - now

  • Senior Software Developer

    Jul 2019 - Apr 2022

  • Software Developer

    Mar 2018 - Jun 2019

  • Software Developer

    Jan 2018 - Mar 2018

  • Software Developer

    Oct 2017 - Feb 2018