Alexander Lysyak

Experience

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  Новосибирский Государственный Университет (НГУ)

  Sept 2010 - now

  IT Lecturer

  Lectures for the next courses: * Database development (Oracle; SQL + PL/SQL + DB-application development). * Information security (author course). * Object-oriented development (C++).

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  ООО Системы информационной безопасности

  Apr 2012 - Mar 2013

  Технический специалист по информационной безопасности

  1. Анализ различных объектов (юр. лица с развитой IT-инфраструктурой) на предмет их соответствия законодательству в сфере защиты информации.2. Разработка проектов СОИБ (систем обеспечения информационной безопасности). В частности, типовые проекты по приведению объекта в соответствие с законодательством по персональным данным; решение конфликтных вопросов с руководством организации-объекта, постановка задач IT-отделу.3. Контроль реализации проектов СОИБ.4. Аудит готовой системы.5. Обучение и администрирование СЗИ: Dallas Lock, Secret Net, ViPNet, ПАК Аккорд, ПАК Соболь.6. Разработка плана и проведение внутренних и внешних пентестов для клиентов ООО «СИБ» (в настоящее время).Продолжаю сотрудничество в данной организации по настоящее время в рамках отдельных договорных работ по экспертному консультированию (аналитике) и работам по проведению пен-тестов в компаниях-клиентах. Show less

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  Сибирский государственный университет телекоммуникаций и информатики

  Sept 2012 - Jan 2015

  Инженер-программист (С++)

  Научная деятельность в сфере теории информации. Разработка вычислительного ПО на C/C++.Знание / использование стека технологий:* STL* MPI, OpenMP* WinForms* Qt

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  ГК Центр финансовых технологий

  Apr 2013 - Jun 2015

  Senior Information Security Engineer

  Personal site / blog for this: http://inforsec.ru/1. Risk analysis in the field of information security and making further decisions on their processing.2. Information security projects’ management and making a project documentation.3. Analysis and modernization of existing IT projects of the company: development new optimized schemes of IT infrastructure (both organizational and technical), discussion with company management, argumentation. Coordination of technical schemes of work / interactions in various departments of the company.4. Technical audit in various departments of the company.5. Solving legal issues regarding information security.6. Development of regulatory documentation on information security (regulations / guidelines / information security policies) in compliance with legal requirements on information security and internal needs of the company.7. Admins data protection systems: Dallas Lock, SecretNet, ViPNet, “PAK Accord”, “PAK Sobol”.8. Developing a plan and conducting internal and external penetration tests (pen tests). For now, continue this activity for the clients of SIB LLC. Show less

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  UpWork

  Sept 2014 - Oct 2016

  .NET-developer

  Oursource software development (freelance) at UpWork by using the next technology stack: • Often: ASP.NET MVC (C#), DI (Unity), EF, SignalR, JS, WinForms.• MS SQL + Oracle: DB-development.• Rear (desktop and network backend applications): C++ Qt, Java.

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  Magora Systems

  Sept 2015 - Sept 2016

  Senior IT Business Analyst / Analysis lead

  1. Management and control of large Russian and foreign projects (work with the customer and the team) at all stages from the collection and processing of requirements to delivery to the customer (in fact, project management role).By using Waterfall or Scrum methodologies depending on the project specific (fixed time / fixed price).2. Collection, systematization and optimization of requirements. Customer expectations management.3. Prototyping UX-interfaces for web and mobile platforms (Android, iOS).4. Design and description of the projects' business logic (in Russian and English). Writing technical specifications (GOST 34.602-89; SRS; User stories; UML, IDEF0, BPMN).5. System analysis, designing a system architecture of projects. Resolving technical problems.6. Management of the business analysis department: staff resources management; internal workflows organization (including Jira workflows); making, distribution and control of tasks; optimization of internal business processes in the department; organization of teamwork (initially there was no business analysis department, it was created with a team by me; business processes are organized from scratch). Show less

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  LC Group

  Oct 2016 - Jul 2020

  • Organization all the work at two IT companies (product and outsourcing specific) from scratch (upto 170 IT-specialists): • Made and integrate BA, QA, separately back, front, DB: separately own teams (not out-staff): own expertise growth, third party experts invitation.• Regularly performance review and motivation meeting. All staff is involved in business and super-motivated, constant initiatives, overwork by theirs initiative.Staff turnover was about 2-3 specialists per 2017 year from in average 60 IT-specialists.• Micro-services high-load architecture and modern stack (.NET Core, Azure service Fabric, Event sourcing, CQRS, ELK-stack; SignalR, PWA / TWA (WebView), Angular5+).• Making Research & Development (R&D) department for Machine learning tasks.• Development and control the key technical strategies for all the departments. o Strong architecture control in order to improve the scalability and flexibility.• Developing a flexible approach to building teams: a matrix system of project management and adaptation the processes for projects' (customer’s) specifics: o Service or large teams for stable large projects: Kanban (Russia, Scoring).Goal: maximize flow of business-value to production (and minimize Lead time) with complex and large team.o Fixed time / price project teams (Waterfall) (outsource, some large services in current products) (Mexico).o New product teams with high business ambiguity, not the stable: Scrum (SA, Poland, ChatBot, MDS).• Integrate a grade system for all the departments.• Year and quarter premiums depends on company profit and OKR + tech KPIs.• Retro meetings and continuous effectiveness improvement.• Organized the process of developing a corporate culture, HR processes and team level growth:o Internal conferences and schools, hackathons.o Trips to conferences with knowledge sharing.o External schools (incl CompTechNsk).o Internship programs. Show less • Internal projects and resources planning and management (PMI, Scrum). o IT-resources planning, management.• Implementation of BI systems and machine learning in order to analyze and optimize the work of the company's products and internal teams.• Integration and control a Scrum methodology for projects’ management Including corresponding best practices (story points, planning poker, PO, Scrum master, sprint goals, SPM+DSM+RM, velocity, etc).• Project and resource planning, as well as customer expectations management (PMI, Scrum).• Facilitating, resolving conflicts and motivate the team.• Integrate team performance monitoring by KPIs with auto-collection KPIs: Lead time (mainly KanBan), Cycle time (mainly KanBan), EstimationVsFact (not the Scrum), Effectiveness, Wasted time, SP-Velocity (for Scrum), Throughput (for KanBan). • All plannings are based on real statistical KPI (not the developers’ estimations!).• IT-resources cross-project management for all the departments (development, QA, BA, PM, DS, SA).• Integrate OKR practices and corresponding planning in a real practice.• Organization technical support team and system by ITSM practices and based on KanBan methodology + auto-monitoring (Prometeus + Grafana + ELK + Kibana) + Atlassian Service Desk.• Decision to make BI-department (PowerBI). Show less

  • Chief Technology Officer

    Feb 2017 - Jul 2020

  • Project Manager

    Oct 2016 - Feb 2017
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  FinTech IQ

  Jul 2020 - Dec 2021

  Chief Technology Officer

  High-load enterprise products and team management.Technical leading and organization of the enterprise product development.• Hiring and developing IT team for a large micro-service project "from scratch".• Organization and development the business org processes in a team (Front, Back, BA, DevOps, QA, PM).• Performance review and cross-project resource management (dev, QA, Sys Analysts, PM, sys admins, tech supp).• Facilitation of teams / project work and retro meetings.• Management of customer expectations, participation in the strategic development of the products, decomposition and roadmap planning.• Organization of a matrix system for project management and processes’ adaptation to the specifics of projects: product development teams by KanBan, fixed-time project teams by Waterfall.• Motivation of the team, development of the grading system, performance review system for all grades.• Development of technical solutions in a cooperation with a system architect and control of tech development of the company's products.Development stack used: .NET, EF, GraphQL, gRPC, Ocelot, Camunda BPM, React + TypeScript; Postgres + MongoDB + ClickHouse, PowerBI, Python, RmQ, Kafka, DWH / ETL, OLAP-BI; Docker, k8s.• Control over bringing the code and core of products to a single architectural design / tech core in accordance to the world's best practices (DDD, SOLID, TDD, micro-services architecture, Event sourcing, CQRS, Evential consistency).• Implementation a number of modern management automation tools (Jira, Confluence, Gantt) into practice; development (Crucible, CI / CD; HashiCorp Vault; Kubernetes), tech. support and monitoring (Prometheus + Grafana), QA (TestRails, SpecFlow). Show less

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  IDF Eurasia

  Jan 2022 - now

  Chief Technology Officer

  * Formation IT-center and dev teams in a product company (120+ members).* Automation of internal business processes, including monitoring the efficiency of IT teams (metrics, business SLA).* Development and transition to the target architecture of a highload platform, SLA availability and reliability.* Increasing the efficiency of dev and support teams: increasing IT productivity, optimizing costs.* IT-processes management: Scrum, KanBan, LeSS, ITSM processes; cross-teams interaction; effective team-performance metrics (TTM-metrics, delivery control metrics, QA-metrics, teams-balance metrics, team-conversion metrics, support-metrics, etc)* Resource planning (incl team balance, bottlenecks, economics efficiency).* IT-HR-department organization: hiring, HR-brand; intern learning schools (backend, QA,SA, BA); motivations controls; performance reviews.Results and achievements:* Launched within 1 year an online bank in the Russia (svoi.ru). Backend stack - Java.* Formed an IT center in Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation, hiring 150+ employees in the following areas: project management, analytics, development, data engineering, admin/devops, QA.* Developed and implemented a Performance review and a team motivation system.* Organized a development school and internship programs in the following areas: Java, QA, BA.* Built a project management office and built a project management process in 4 MFIs (2 in KZ, 2 in the Russian Federation) and online-bank (in the Russia), implemented a project management framework (based on LeSS), which allowed us to complete about 10 large projects with a total budget of over RUB 1.1 billion over the past year.* Launched 9 cross-functional teams for the development of products, services and platforms, increasing their specific cost-effectiveness by 20%.* Accelerated TTM for key products by 4 times. Having achieved the cost of IT staff at 22% below the market level. Show less