Alexander Gladchenko

Solutions / Software Architect
Technical Expert

  • IT Professional and Solution Architect with 13+ years of extensive experience in leading and managing teams, working on the projects in Europe and North America.
  • Hands-on experience in implementing and improving the overall project, program, and solution governance for software providers and major financial institutions.
  • Experienced in pre-sales collaboration with the customers, estimations, providing effective solutions with full based documentation.
  • Experience in successfully leading a transformation program to implement best practice software development processes and tools (Agile Methodologies, DevOps practices).
  • Passionate about new technologies and actively pursuing continuous learning on the latest technologies and especially Front-End Full-Stack and Cloud Services.
  • Deep experience and knowledge of Front-End stack in cooperation with Cloud services and databases (Full-Stack).
  • Experience in performing resource management activities, coaching and mentoring students and co-workers, managing expectations, risks, budgets.
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal and negotiation skills required to influence critical business decisions.
  • Professional Technical Interviewer in Full-Stack area (base language JavaScript).
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Main skills

Leadership and Management
90 / 100
Software Development Processes and Tools
95 / 100
Front-End Full-Stack and Cloud Services
98 / 100
Technical Documentation and Diagrams
92 / 100
Collaboration and Communication
94 / 100
Resource Management and Coaching
88 / 100
Technical Roadmaps and Solutions Design
96 / 100
Continuous Improvement
90 / 100
Technology Integration
97 / 100
Performance and Reliability Assurance
95 / 100
Team Leadership and Mentoring
93 / 100
April 2023 - Present

Top 5 Telecom Companies in Russian Federation

Lead Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Architectural Leadership & System Design:
  • Developed a system to counter SMS and phone call fraud for high load, processing 4-15k transactions per second.
  • Created a multi-layered architecture for more effective and timely message delivery and validation (fast-delivery, transit, target).
  • Designed and developed a end-to-end verification tool for SMS traffic analysis to identify grey routes and spam.
  • Technology Modernization & Compliance:
  • Engineered the shift from a legacy protocol to gRPC (HTTP/2) in a microservices environment for improved scalability and security.
  • Offered full documentation for regulatory compliance and smooth transition, generating reports to RosReestr.
  • Designed disaster recovery solutions across multiple regions to ensure system resilience and failover capabilities.
  • Innovation & Data-Driven Development:
  • Developed an SMS traffic classification and fraud detection real-time ML model as an individual.
  • Built a PoC to prove new architectural concepts before putting them into production. Applied the latest development approaches to make the system more efficient and easy to maintain.
  • Team Leadership & Cross-Team Collaboration:
  • Directed a team of architects, developers, and engineers to work in a collaborative and high performing environment.
  • Defined new ways of working for code storage, building, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. Worked with partners and other teams to achieve the deployment of the current state-of-the-art telecommunication security features.
  • Implemented 24/7 monitoring and on-call schedules to guarantee the continuity of the system.
  • Technology Stack:
  • Kubernetes, Scala, Java, JavaScript (ReactJS), Gradle, Docker, GitLab, Redis, PostgreSQL, SeaWeedFS / Ceph (S3), Apache Kafka, gRPC (HTTP/2), Machine Learning (ML), Cloud and Microservices Architecture.
July 2022 - April 2023

Financial / Tax domain

Solutions Architect / Technical Team Leader

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Documenting and standardization processes
  • Prepare diagrams of solutions, ideas, proposals, deployments
  • Negotiations, roadmaps, requirements gathering and definitions with business
  • PoCs, technical proposals and blueprints for the teams
  • Educational activities to educate development teams, share knowledge, etc.
April 2021 - July 2022

EV - Manufacturing & Auto

Technical Team Leader / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members.
  • Implement end-to-end delivery process from the scratch to deliver for staging and production environments.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Coach and mentor other less senior developers on his team and in the Canadian organization.
  • Lead and guide technology discussions with client.
  • Ensure the performance and reliability of the system I build.
  • Facilitated planning and estimation sessions with the Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements, held demos.
  • Responsible for Git pull requests to review, administer a Git repository, the architecture of applications and solutions; created releases, provided information in release notes, documented the functionality in Confluence, notified real users regarding release changes.
  • Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) Consumer-driven contract testing practices.
  • I worked with Customer’s management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
January 2021 – March 2021

Business Information & Media

Technical Lead / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members.
  • Implement end-to-end delivery process from the scratch to deliver for staging and production environments.
  • Implemented Excel-like application with automated validation and automation pipeline steps.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Lead and guide technology discussions with client.
  • Ensure the performance and reliability of the system I build.
September 2020 – December 2020

Commercial Banking

Advocate and Leader of Front-End competency

  • Collaborated closely with customer’s teams, aiming to clarify and validate requirements.
  • Reviewed and defined CI/CD pipelines and platforms’ software design.
  • Provided audit consulting for the customer for pre-sales.
  • Defined key quality attributes for both platforms, evaluated their compliance.
  • Defined best practices for code quality, tests, reports.
  • Conducted root cause analysis, assessed requirements; estimated tasks and supervised delivery.
  • The frontend team and I, as a head, followed EngX Framework, created quiz for customer’s team leads, developers, architects, management and devops. Based on answers and review the codebase my team prepared report based on world-wide practices, SonarQube output and our own experience as 3rd party experts.
  • My team and I were responsible for frontend projects in end-to-end solutions, codding approaches in terms of software architecture, for devops and testing practices used in the platforms.
  • Helped to tune platform the throughput and performance with scaling and sharding strategies.
  • After reviewing the report each node of assessment team did presentation for customer’s top management and then send our report as recommendation.
  • Implemented new CI/CD flow with Bamboo pipelines to save build and deployment time.
August 2019 – August 2020

Insurance

Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Created a cloud-native end-to-end solution for insurance, calculate risks, create deals and policies and maintenance them through set of statuses. Solution contains 7 projects: Clearing Manager, Policy Manager, Process Manager, Deal Manager, Costings, Task Manager, Claims. All these projects help underwriter create deals and policies with appropriate data. Deals and Policies have its own lifecycle and phases.
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team and related teams.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • I worked with Customer’s management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
  • Because in the team were another Solutions Architects, we split responsibilities and I was responsible for Clearing Manager as a Direct Manager, work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • I was working with almost all teams to coordinate work between them from architecture point of view, working with management to match their expectations.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members, coach and mentor other less senior developers on my team and in the Canadian organization.
April 2011 – July 2019

Business Information and Media

Technical Team Lead / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Created a full end-to-end solution (Cloud Gate) to monitor versions of microservices, execute unit/e2e tests, parsed results and store in Elasticsearch and showed statistic info on UI for end-users and send statistic via mailbox.
  • Responsible for deploying application to AWS, maintained and monitored costs as well as changed and kept up-to-date project’s architecture for reducing costs and new business needs, ensure the performance and reliability of the systems I build.
  • I worked with Customer’s management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) Consumer-driven contract testing practices.
  • Implemented e2e and unit tests and monitored the quality of test coverage.
  • Provided comprehensive technical documentation including high-level architectural diagrams and (sub)systems description for all deliverables and solutions.
  • Helped with share knowledge with newcomers, estimated development tasks, mentored less senior team members, improved methods of working.
  • Responsible for Git pull requests to review, administer a Git repository, the architecture of applications and solutions; created releases, provided information in release notes, documented the functionality in Confluence, notified real users regarding release changes.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in related teams in building new features and functionalities, coach and mentor other less senior developers on my team and in the Canadian organization.
  • Facilitated planning and estimation sessions with the Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements, held demos.
  • Provided go-live 24/7 support.
August 2010 - April 2011

Mobile operator

Senior Software Engineer

  • Created specifications and architecture for new CMS page components: tariff selection control, tariff information component, phones specs component.
  • Conducted planning and estimation sessions with customer Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements for different site sections: news, tariffs, campaigns, roaming information, service centers, phone and equipment information.
  • Produced high-level design and implemented components using JavaScript and VBScript, worked with the database, formatted output data, transformed the content, created hierarchies, created new elements in menu.
  • Implemented components for testing the system using VBScript in OpenText CMS.
  • Created a knowledge transfer plan and helped share knowledge with newcomers.
  • Showed demos to Product Owner.
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