{ "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jsonresume/resume-schema/v1.0.0/schema.json", "basics": { "name": "Svyatoslav Demochkin", "label": "Head of Engineering", "email": "svyat.dema@yandex.ru", "summary": "Engineering manager with 10+ years in tech and 3+ years leading teams. Built the frontend function at Positive Technologies from scratch to an 11-person department (4 cross-functional teams). Previously at Yandex and VK. I combine strategy, process and hands-on development in React / Angular / TypeScript. Formerly a full-stack developer — I can take on backend when needed (Python, PHP, Node.js). I bring AI-assisted development into team workflows — sped up delivery by 1.5×.", "location": { "address": "Moscow · Remote, open to business trips" }, "profiles": [ { "network": "linkedin", "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/svyat-dema/" }, { "network": "hh", "url": "https://hh.ru/resume/f9dc3a3eff0cd461720039ed1f786d4c384275" }, { "network": "habr", "url": "https://career.habr.com/svyatoslav-demochkin" }, { "network": "telegram", "url": "https://t.me/kusokBanana" } ] }, "work": [ { "name": "Positive Technologies", "position": "Head of UI Development (Engineering Manager)", "url": "https://www.ptsecurity.com", "location": "Moscow · Remote · cybersecurity", "startDate": "2024-03", "summary": "Frontend function across the IT directorate's products. Led 4 cross-functional teams: tech leads, frontend engineers and UX/UI designers. Full ownership of the function — from strategy and hiring to technical decisions and user outcomes. Acted as the owner of the UI domain, balancing business, user and team interests.", "highlights": [] }, { "name": "VK", "position": "Team Lead", "url": "https://vk.company/ru/", "location": "Moscow · remote", "startDate": "2023-04", "endDate": "2023-12", "summary": "VK fintech — Cashout: a full self-service money-withdrawal product where creators pick a monetisation earnings source on the VKontakte social network and cash out the amount they want. A high-load service within the VK ecosystem. Promoted from senior frontend developer.", "highlights": [ "Led a cross-functional development team (4 engineers) and the Cashout product.", "Drove the product core — self-service withdrawal: a creator picks an earnings source and cashes out the amount they need; alongside it, earnings analytics and related features.", "Service scale: tens of thousands of creators and payouts of tens of millions of rubles per month.", "Planned and delivered product integrations and improvements.", "Built collaboration across adjacent departments — QA, design, analytics, marketing & PR, editorial, document flow, legal — for service resilience, UX quality, growth-metric tracking, customer acquisition and correct payouts to self-employed individuals, sole proprietors and legal entities.", "Integrated adjacent departments to automate routine processes.", "Ran 1:1s and performance reviews, set goals and growth areas for the team.", "Hands-on development of VK fintech UIs and the Cashout service." ] }, { "name": "VK", "position": "Senior Frontend Developer", "url": "https://vk.company/ru/", "location": "Moscow · hybrid", "startDate": "2022-08", "endDate": "2023-04", "highlights": [ "Built high-load VK fintech UIs — a product inside one of the largest social networks in the region (~100M MAU).", "Worked under high load: significant traffic and data volumes, with elevated client-side stability, performance and resilience requirements.", "Introduced feature flags: multiple releases per day and selective rollout of functionality to specific user segments.", "Built the Cashout service UI." ] }, { "name": "Яндекс", "position": "Fullstack Developer", "url": "https://yandex.ru", "location": "Moscow", "startDate": "2018-12", "endDate": "2022-05", "summary": "Team building automation and management tooling for data-centre IT infrastructure.", "highlights": [ "Built and grew a UI component library: migrated most of the team's projects to it, multiplying the speed of new UI development.", "Mentored colleagues in backend and frontend development.", "Acted as product owner for several products — growth and support.", "Wrote external and internal operations documentation for services.", "Extended and maintained the server ordering and provisioning platform for company services.", "Built a service for assembling, disassembling and re-assembling equipment (server components, self-driving-car parts, etc.).", "Built an equipment-repair platform — full cycle from request to receiving repaired hardware from the service centre.", "Built a UI for fulfilling data-centre work orders (component and server replacement).", "Built a technical asset-tracking system for the company's physical assets.", "Built a UI for automated inventory of server-hardware manufacturing at the factory.", "Built a service for transactional equipment-state changes across inventory and quantity-accounting systems.", "Built a procurement/manufacturing ordering service: from a minimal required configuration it selects the most cost-optimal hardware." ] }, { "name": "Kodix", "position": "Developer", "url": "https://kodix.ru", "location": "Moscow", "startDate": "2017-08", "endDate": "2018-12", "highlights": [ "Built and maintained a unified platform for car-dealer websites: delivering features, updates and content from a control centre to all dealer sites; keeping them aligned with the brand site in look, catalogue and pricing. Stack: PHP 5.6–7.0, 1C-Bitrix, jQuery.", "Built a car-configuration selector by key factors with price prediction and Unity-based 3D visualisation. Stack: PHP 5.6–7.0, 1C-Bitrix, jQuery.", "Built a personal-car valuation service from parameters based on comparable auto.ru listings; microservice architecture. Stack: PHP 7.0, Lumen, Redis, jQuery, Codeception.", "Built an internal UI for automated deploy and server management (prod/test/dev) with configurable specs; Ansible API integration. Stack: Python (Flask), JS (jQuery).", "Built an MVP mobile web app for a service-station engineer: car intake report with cost, urgency and other fields. Stack: PHP (Laravel), JS (Vue.js)." ] }, { "name": "Фриланс / прямой заказчик («Европолы»)", "position": "Web Developer", "location": "Moscow", "startDate": "2017-03", "endDate": "2017-08", "highlights": [ "Built an internal inventory and warehousing system for Evropoly, including a custom access-control system; deep table-visualisation customisation with DataTables.js. Stack: PHP 5.6 (custom ORM wrapper), jQuery, MySQL.", "Built a parquet e-commerce store: an SEO manager for product ranking via dynamic rules on product attributes; warehouse and product-attribute management. Stack: PHP 5.6, Yii2, jQuery, Bootstrap, MySQL." ] }, { "name": "Givemesite", "position": "Web Developer", "url": "https://givemesite.ru", "location": "Moscow", "startDate": "2016-06", "endDate": "2017-03", "highlights": [ "Built e-commerce stores and a tool for automating bid management in Yandex.Direct." ] } ], "projects": [], "skills": [ { "name": "Management", "keywords": [ "hiring", "individual development plans", "1:1s", "OKR / roadmap", "Agile / Scrum", "process design", "stakeholder management", "cross-functional collaboration", "change management" ] }, { "name": "Technology", "keywords": [ "TypeScript", "React", "Angular", "Node.js", "CI/CD (GitLab CI)", "Docker", "Figma" ] }, { "name": "Frontend expertise", "keywords": [ "frontend architecture", "high-load UIs", "design systems", "FrontOps" ] }, { "name": "AI / efficiency", "keywords": [ "LLM-assisted development (Claude, Cursor)", "automation of routine operations" ] }, { "name": "Earlier", "keywords": [ "Python / Flask / SQLAlchemy", "PHP / Symfony / Laravel / Yii2", "SQL (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, ...)", "NoSQL (MongoDB, Redis, ...)", "Linux" ] } ], "education": [ { "institution": "National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Moscow", "area": "Business Informatics (Faculty of Management and Economics of High Technologies)", "studyType": "BSc", "endDate": "2017" } ], "meta": { "language": "en", "target": "full", "canonical": "resume-as-code" } }