CV

Over the past 15+ years, I’ve led multinational and distributed organizations, redesigned quality functions, and introduced measurable improvements in cycle time, reliability, and engineering effectiveness.

I focus on building sustainable systems that keep working when focus shifts elsewhere:

  • sustainability over heroics
  • accountability over bureaucracy
  • evidence over assumptions
  • clarity over fluff

Experience

Head of QA | Babbel

September 2022 - Present, Berlin

Led 25 engineers across 15+ teams, shaping a quality-first culture. Key achievements:

  • Reduced mobile release cycle by 20% through risk-based testing
  • Standardized bug workflows reducing MTTR by 30% and bug backlog by 40%
  • Implemented quality gates & static analysis across 300+ repos
  • Mentored engineers into senior & leadership roles

Quality Manager | Unity Engine | Unity Technologies

February 2021 - August 2022, Berlin September 2015 - February 2021, Odesa

Led 3 distributed teams of senior engineers in the platform and foundation areas. Key achievements:

  • Created a student worker programme with 100% conversion into successful full-time hires.
  • Stabilised test infrastructure and reduce flaky test incidents.
  • Owned department-level quality strategy with Engineering Directors

Software Developer in Test | Unity Engine | Unity Technologies

July 2012 - September 2015, Odesa

QA Engineer -> Automation QA Engineer | HP BSM & HP SiteScope

2008 - July 2012, Odesa

Core Competencies

Leadership & Strategy

Engineering Leadership, Org Design, Quality Strategy, Developer Experience, Career Development & Mentorship, Hiring & Performance Management, Cross-functional Collaboration

Delivery & Engineering

Quality Engineering & Test Automation, CI/CD & DevOps Practices, Shift Left & Early Quality Integration, Release & Risk Management, Engineering Metrics & Observability, Version Control Systems, Containerisation & Dev Environments, Agile & Defect Management Tooling, Development (.NET, Python(basic), Ruby(basic))

Education

Odesa National University / Master’s Degree in Mechanics and Computer Science

2009, Odesa