Sergey Shishkin

08/2021–present Software Engineer, Consultant and Coach at shishkin.org

🚀 Performed design thinking training for startup founders covering stakeholder mapping, customer value proposition, business model, storyboarding, agile and rapid prototyping.

🏗 Developed a serverless application, data pipeline and a chatbot application for real estate industry. Using: AWS Lambda in TypeScript with DynamoDB for cost-effective backend; AWS CDK insfrastructure as code deployment automation eliminates manual infrastructure drift in the cloud across production and development environments; AWS Textract and ML tools for intelligent data processing; Next.js and React stack for effecient, interactive and server-side redered web application; Integration with Telegram API for conversational UI capabilities.

📖 Developed a company internal employee handbook and knowledge base using JavaScript and Antora. Custom Antora extensions for mirroring content from Confluence and Slack. Content management via GitLab, including CI/CD pipeline and discussions via automated issue templates. Custom UI and corporate branding.

07/2017–08/2021 Technical Lead, Solution Architect at Standard Chartered Bank (Singapore)

🏎 Led an agile product development team. Introduced technical excellence practices of test automation, CI/CD, peer code reviews, regular architecture and design sessions. Hired and developed strong engineers. Ran initiative to containerize the application and replatform from enterprise application server on internal on-prem Kubernetes PaaS.

🌱 Promoted agile ways of working and product management within the technology department. Managed business stakeholders, infrastructure teams and internal process control owners. Helped to devise the business unit’s technical strategy and enterprise architecture.

🎓 Led efforts to design and roll out a bespoke talent development program for emerging technical leaders.

10/2015–04/2017 Data Scientist at Teralytics (Singapore)

🦾 Reengineered a big data analytics pipeline for performance using Apache Spark, Mesos, Parquet, HDFS. Improved CI infrastructure and development workflow. Driven technical excellence in the engineering team, internal and external open-source, and community engagements. Raised team’s competence with Scala and functional programming.

05/2014–08/2015 Agile Coach at JPMorgan Chase Bank (Singapore)

Coached teams in lean and agile software development and architecture. Coached program leaders in lean and systems thinking. Led by example while working in the product development teams. Taught developers test-driven development and clean code practices through pair-programming and internal communities of practice. Implemented parts of the continuous delivery pipeline using Jenkins. Taught functional and reactive programming with Scala and Akka.

01/2012–04/2014 Independent Software Consultant and Coach (Düsseldorf, Germany)

Coached a client’s software development teams and stakeholders in Kanban and Scrum. Helped implement the continuous delivery pipeline using TeamCity and F# scripting tools. Coached developers in OO design principles, TDD, refactoring and working with legacy code.

Designed and developed hypermedia web API and a high throughput event processing system for a telecom provider using Scala, Akka, Hadoop, MongoDB and Kafka. Introduced Kanban as a method of an evolutionary change that helped increase delivery throughput and release predictability.

04/2010–12/2011 Senior Consultant at MT AG (Ratingen, Germany)

Developed backend, client-server and portal software systems using .NET technology for various clients. Authored and conducted trainings on lean and agile software development.

07/2007–03/2010 Software Architect at InterComponentWare AG (Cologne, Germany)

Developed a modularized rich-client and server backend application with .NET technologies in over 500k LoC in 150 components with a team of 20 developers. Analyzed and optimized performance. Mentored team members and conducted code reviews.

Introduced Scrum in a cross-functional team of 35 people including product managers, testers, developers and technical writers. Trained and conducted workshops individually for each group of stakeholders and team members to ensure the lasting effect of agile transition. Introduced automated acceptance testing and executable specification practice with FitNesse.

03/2006–06/2007 Software Engineer at newtelligence AG (Korschenbroich, Germany)

Developed web and backend software systems with .NET, SQL Server, asynchronous messaging, claim-based authentication and JavaScript.

Authored and delivered developer trainings on .NET and service-oriented architecture.

08/2001–12/2005 Software Developer at Electronic Documents (Novosibirsk, Russia)

Developed line of business intranet and internet applications using ASP.NET technologies and SQL Server databases. Built dynamic HTML applications with asynchronous JavaScript requests way before the term AJAX was coined and became popular.