Yekaterinburg

Alexander Palchikov

Engineering team lead, Team Lead, Tech Lead

I now have more experience working with teams than coding alone: I hire and grow people, set up how we work, and own the outcome. Go is my primary language. PHP is a strong background I grew up in.

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Experience

Kuper

Head of Engineering, Operations.

2023-08 — present

Delivered integrations with the Department of Transport and other government systems with the team
Built a photo-verification system for an anti-fraud initiative
Designed an interview framework for the eCom group: resistant to AI assistance, clear for managers and recruiters
Built a high-performing team; conducted more than 120 interviews in a year
Reduced team incidents to zero; 90% of projects shipped on time
Spoke at internal meetups and ran workshops on how the team works

Yandex Eats

Head of Engineering, Choice team.

2022-12 — 2023-07

Shipped many catalog, search, and venue-card features with the team
Established current agile processes in the team and the stream
Set working agreements so engineering, product, and QA each owned their part

Delivery Club

Engineering group lead.

2022-04 — 2022-12

Led a cross-functional team
Set personal goals with team members
Formed the team's OKRs and roadmap
Wrote Golang services and reviewed colleagues' code
Took part in adopting ZBP and 3 Amigos agile practices

EBC Group

Team lead, backend development.

2018-03 — 2022-04

Managed the development team
Introduced Scrum
Dockerized the project
Successfully split the project into separate services
Introduced Codeception tests, team conventions, and a code-review process
Ran personal development for engineers (performance review, 360 review)

E96.ru

Software engineer.

2016-08 — 2018-02

Built customer-facing features and internal services for a high-load online store
Built a smart search on ElasticSearch
Horizontal scaling and load balancing