I’m looking for technical leadership roles combining hands-on engineering, architecture, product thinking, and R&D. I enjoy building meaningful, ambitious products from the ground up, solving complex problems, making key technical decisions, and turning uncertain ideas into working systems.
Open to opportunities
Yuriy Novikov
@yuriynovikov
A technology leader with 20+ years of hands-on experience in software development, infrastructure automation, and team building.
IndonesiaWhat I'm looking for
🔹 Tech Stack & Strengths:
Ruby on Rails (API & Fullstack), Python, Go, Flutter, Ansible, Docker, ELK stack, RabbitMQ, Kafka, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code.
🔹 What I Do Best:
Building development teams from the ground up
Leading engineering strategy with a pragmatic, delivery-first mindset
Designing resilient backend systems for high-throughput environments
Mentoring technical teams and fostering engineering excellence
Rapid MVP development for startups and innovative products
🔹 Leadership & Methodology:
Certified Agile Team Facilitator. I believe in lean, adaptive processes, tight feedback loops, and empowering teams to take ownership. I bring a mix of strategic thinking, hands-on technical depth, and a commitment to long-term impact.
🔹 Current Focus:
Open to full-time leadership roles (Engineering Manager, CTO, Tech Lead) or high-impact freelance projects. Interested in opportunities globally, including relocation.
Let's connect if you're building something meaningful and need someone who thrives at the intersection of code, strategy, and execution.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Current
Intensive new product development and launch - from prototype to competitive product
Current
Relocation, parenting, travel and own startup development.
Same time has implemented numerous app developments, including
- Referral link management system for SEO betting
- Mobile applications: Translator, automation of bureaucratic document filling in Japan, proprietary device management with low-level NFC protocols
- Automated booking software
- Automated scraping farm solution
- Interior col
- Took over an incomplete Rails project and ensured the timely launch of the product
- Covered needs in development, architecture, and DevOps
- Structured the UX development process for the new version of the apps Dashboard
- Established a systematic, measurable development process and a knowledge management infrastructure
Transparency for everyone
https://wowlook.app
- New marketing automation product developed and launch-ready
- Agile team builded
- Product Owner role performed as well as CTO: more than 300 user stories described including analytics
- High-load architecture model described to serve up to millions rps
- Secure infrastructure with "stage","prod" environments based on CircleCI and Amazon EC2 builded with k8s, ES, Kafka, MongoDB and Vault cluster
5000 DAU queue-management system reengineering.
Agile team with creative sessions practices builded. Delivered a number of optimizing solutions.
- Led software development team in delivery of large scale data caching system project with ML solutions to optimize look-to-book KPIs for the e-ticket search engine with billions routes.
- Led software development team in delivery of new backoffice for internet acquiring clients and staff with realtime analytics engine with 10,000 rps to significantly improve clients user experience.
- Maintained
- Built outstanding and dynamic team of software engineers and developers which significantly boosted overall success of organization.
- Orchestrated efficient large-scale software deployments, including testing features and correcting code.
- Designed and performed innovative large scale e-ticket search engine solution
- Designed and performed custom ETL system to satisfy e-ticket search engine i
Projects assessment and estimation, consultative sales, software development management, technology and architecture consulting, new projects launching, business development.
Book-on-Demand start-up business analysis, software development and management on pre-seed stage.
Comprehensive refactoring of the solution to deliver high-load stability and new UGC services launching targets. PHP-qualified staff retraining to RubyOnRails.
Architecture design and develop number of unique social services at one of the first social networking services in Russia.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
SE
State University — Higher School of Economics
Postgrad, Math methods in economics
2010 - 2011
MU
Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
2004, Masters degree in engineering
1998 - 2004
Mathematical Statistics, Regression Analysis, Optimization Methods, Systems Analysis, Programming, Management, human-machine systems
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Availability
Open to opportunities
Location
IndonesiaAuthorized to work in
Russian FederationSalary expectations
80k-200k USD
Social media
Job categories
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