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Khusam Alfas

@khusamalfas

Director-level SEO leader driving organic growth in high-competition markets.

Russian Federation
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What I'm looking for

I want a leadership role driving enterprise SEO and organic growth, building teams, technical systems, and measurable commercial outcomes in competitive verticals.

I am a director-level SEO leader with 10+ years of experience building large-scale organic growth systems for high-competition and commercially aggressive verticals. I specialize in dominating SERPs in YMYL, iGaming, medical, and pharmaceutical niches through strategic architecture and rapid experimentation.

I have designed and operated multi-region, multi-domain architectures spanning 48 regions and 2,500+ geo-entities, scaling organic channels from 0 to 3.2M+ monthly visits and delivering 1M+ monthly visits for a national e-commerce chain. My technical background in PHP, Laravel, and Symfony enables close collaboration with engineering teams to implement automation pipelines, crawler orchestration, and performance optimizations.

I build and lead cross-functional SEO organizations—link teams, analysts, content units, and developers—implementing hypothesis-driven testing, backlog governance, and KPI-focused prioritization. I also develop custom tooling including keyword systems, clustering engines, and monitoring dashboards to sustain velocity and scale.

I bring expertise in semantic and entity-driven site structures, schema governance, AEO/GEO preparation, and indexation control, with practical knowledge of grey/black-hat patterns for defensive strategy. I seek roles where I can architect enterprise SEO systems, mentor teams, and drive measurable commercial outcomes.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Digital Product Lead / Director of SEO

Panacea

Apr 2021 - Present (4 years 8 months)

Owned global SEO strategy across 48 regions and 2,500+ geo-entities, building a semantic, entity-driven architecture that scaled organic traffic to 3.2M+ monthly visits.

VitaLtd logoVI

Senior PHP Developer & Growth/SEO Team

VitaLtd

Oct 2016 - Mar 2021 (4 years 5 months)

Led an aggressive architecture overhaul for a national pharmacy chain, driving organic growth to 1M+ monthly visits and improving commercial SERP performance.

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SEO Specialist PHP Full-Stack Developer

5 Vlast

Mar 2013 - Feb 2016 (2 years 11 months)

Served as senior SEO specialist and full-stack technical implementer, executing technical optimizations, log-based analysis, and SEO automation to improve organic visibility.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Kazan State Technical University logoKU

Kazan State Technical University

Information Technology

Studied Information Technology at Kazan State Technical University focusing on computing and applied IT principles.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

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