Ilia Isakov

Experience

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  Teamo.ru

  Apr 2011 - Apr 2013

  Software Engineer

  Key achievements and responsibilities:- Started working as the first in-house developer and took over the responsibility for the development of the whole project from the outsourcing company.- Worked on almost all types of functionalities of the feature reach website, including messaging, dating matches game, mailing marketing platform, billing system, and paid services.- Successfully completed two full redesigns of the site without degradation of functionality.- Planned and completed a merge of an acquired project with more than 5 million users.- Developed a mailing platform with millions of delivered emails per day.- Sharded a monolithic database addressing the issue of a fastly growing number of active users and online activity.- Assisted in addressing team growth issues and running collaborative development practices by introducing a code review process and automated CI/CD pipeline. Show less

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  Badoo

  Apr 2013 - Aug 2021

  Key achievements and responsibilities:- Designed and developed a billing system for one of the biggest dating apps in the world accepting payments in 200+ countries.- Led a cross-functional team of talented developers and QA engineers and mentored a new team leader for the neighboring team.- Coached the team in scrum aiming to complete sprints with regular incremental releases and mitigate the growth of technical debt.- Integrated and maintained dozens of payment system providers, including Apple Pay, Google Wallet, PayPal, Adyen, Worldpay, Fortumo, Braintree, Ingenico, and others.Coordinated the development and deployment of own in-house credit card processing platform. Took responsibility for SDLC part on annual PCI DSS compliance audits, and prepared teammates for participation in audits as interviewees.- Implemented a subscription engine for managing recurring payments for time-based services.- Coordinated a mission-critical project of sharding a monolithic database containing terabytes of data to scale the platform horizontally.- Developed and launched an experimental ML-baked risk scoring service for blocking fraudulent payments and forcing 3DS authorization for high-risk transactions.- Architectured the payouts system with an entire cash flow cycle from the accrual of the internal currency to the withdrawal of real money to external user accounts. Show less

  • Team Lead in Billing Department

    Aug 2015 - Aug 2021

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Apr 2013 - Aug 2015
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  OZON.ru

  Aug 2021 - Jan 2023

  Engineering Manager

  Responsibilities:- Managing department of four cross-functional teams developing sellers-oriented products on the online marketplace with tens of millions of users.- Overseeing the product delivery process by facilitating building roadmaps, designing software architecture, planning resources, and growing teams of talented developers.- Hiring, promoting, and coaching team leaders. Setting goals and the scope of responsibilities for teams.

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  Distribusion Technologies

  Jan 2023 - now

  VP of Engineering