IRA SARKISOV
North Potomac,MD
Summary
With over 20 years of experience, I have successfully led all phases of software product development. As a passionate and energetic leader, I prioritize the development of my team members, fostering a nurturing environment that encourages growth and innovation. Intelligent IT Manager with [Number]-year record of leadership experience in areas such as infrastructure development and management, application support and security optimization. Focused on satisfying customer needs through robust, innovative and forward-thinking solutions. Demonstrated success as operational leader, articulate communicator and practiced influencer. Collaborates across functions to outline and achieve project targets. Skilled in building solid business solutions based on methodologies and engineering principles. Complex problem-solver skilled in developing proposals, integrating technologies and managing projects.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
Work History
Director of Software Engineering
CapitalOne Software
McLean, VA
03.2022 - Current
- CapitalOne's Slingshot is a solution designed to optimize costs, reduce waste and inefficiencies and accelerate time-to-value of Snowflake, while adhering to governance requirements
- Led a newly formed team of Platform DevOps engineers, with a focus on operations and vulnerabilities management for Capital One Software's first commercial product, Slingshot
- Maintained an excellent vulnerabilities posture, ensuring robust security and operational integrity
- Concentrated on the automation of vulnerability responses, significantly enhancing the efficiency of security operations
- Implemented advanced automation strategies to streamline remediation processes, reducing response time and improving system resilience
- Managed the development and delivery of a dedicated demo environment for the Snowflake Summit while automating infrastructure deployment pipelines, enhancing efficiency and demonstrating the team's ability to execute complex projects effectively
- Identified and executed strategic cost-saving measures for Slingshot's Snowflake use, achieving a 50% reduction in expenses.
- Identified potential areas for automation or streamlining existing processes and procedures related to software development lifecycle.
- Led regular meetings with team members to discuss project status updates, risks and issues management.
- Evaluated existing systems and identified opportunities for process improvement or cost savings initiatives.
- Directed the development of software engineering processes, procedures and standards.
Sr Manager
3M Health Information Systems (HIS)
Silver Spring, MD
09.2020 - 05.2022
- Built and retained a highly functional and sought after team of diverse engineers with average employee seniority exceeding 8 years
- Built and managed CodeAssist product - a web-based system that leverages advanced NLP to examine the full text of a physician's report, extract clinical facts and automatically assign accurate medical codes
- Managed the post-acquisition integration of CodeRyte's CodeAssist product, scaling it to support a sevenfold increase in daily document volume and overseeing its successful migration to AWS
- Balanced the core business needs with innovation efforts, resulting in the 20-year-old application receiving multiple updates including a modern UI and successful refactoring of 70% of the core code
- Led teams in enhancing development practices, with a strong emphasis on continuous improvement and addressing technical debt
- This approach fostered an effective development environment and aided in the creation of a comprehensive test suite and an efficient CI/CD process
- These improvements contributed to faster application development, zero downtime deployments, and the lowest rates of support tickets in comparison to other products at 3M HIS
- Collaborated with the security team on achieving and maintaining HITRUST and SOC2+ certifications
- Assisted with internal risk assessments, defined by corporate security
- Successfully built and led a diverse team of software engineers and architects from inception, nurturing growth from junior developers to senior roles
- Assumed comprehensive responsibility for product development, deployment, support, and maintenance, overseeing developers, DevOps, DBAs, and QA teams
- Emphasized employee growth and cross-functional collaboration, resulting in several promotions
- Addressed performance issues effectively
- Additionally, facilitated a smooth transition to remote work during Covid, and efficiently managed the onboarding and transition of certain maintenance tasks, enabling the team to focus on new initiatives.
Software Engineering Manager
CodeRyte
Bethesda, MD
01.2011 - 01.2012
- Contributed to development of all parts of the application: designed and optimized backend workflows, wrote individual drivers to process customer's incoming data, refactored customer specific code for the final generated codes results, implemented secure cookie based authentication with strong password requirements
- Worked with DB admins on database optimization and maintenance processes
- Including tiered access to write and read replicas, tiered purging process and query optimization
- Built an integrated solution for 3M's Codefinder and CodeRyte's CodeAssist product prior to acquisition.
Senior Software Engineer
Gilat Latin America
Melbourne/Sunrise, FL | McLean
01.1997 - 01.2004
- Built a proprietary Network Monitoring Application for Gilat's Broadband Internet Access System that included network performance and bandwidth monitoring
- Developed GUI for control of the Hub system as well as a robust algorithm for over the air control of the remote VSAT's.
Software Engineer
Gilat Satellite Networks
Petah Tikva, Israel
01.1994 - 01.1997
- Developed satellite communication applications in embedded environments, both in the systems Hub station and remote VSATs (Very Small Aperture Terminals)
- Designed software for a proprietary state of the art satellite access scheme protocol implementing a sophisticated FTDMA access algorithm
- Implemented phone application over satellite including call routing and handling.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Math and Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Unfinished (due to immigration) - Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Moscow State University
Skills
- Technical Leadership
- Continuous Integration
- Continuous Deployment
- Performance Optimization
- Analytical Thinking
- Adaptability
- Interpersonal Skills
- Continuous Improvement
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical Skills
- Relationship Building
- Team Building
- Self Motivation
- Adaptability and Flexibility
Pronunciation
Eera
Tech Skills - Computer Skills
- AWS
- NewRelic
- MySQL
- Snowflake
- Perl
- Splunk
- Linux
- Solr
- Cloudwatch
- Git
- Jira
- Cloudability
- Graphite
- HITRUST
- SOC2
- HL7
Languages
Russian
Native/ Bilingual
Hebrew
Limited
Timeline
Director of Software Engineering
CapitalOne Software
03.2022 - Current
Sr Manager
3M Health Information Systems (HIS)
09.2020 - 05.2022
Software Engineering Manager
CodeRyte
01.2011 - 01.2012
Senior Software Engineer
Gilat Latin America
01.1997 - 01.2004
Software Engineer
Gilat Satellite Networks
01.1994 - 01.1997
Bachelor of Science - Math and Computer Science
Tel-Aviv University
Unfinished (due to immigration) - Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
Moscow State University
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