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Sergii Kanishchev

Ann Arbor,Michigan

Summary

Delivering from idea to implementation. Expertise in Project Management, Business Analysis, Application support and DevOps. Experience in automotive, banking and telecom domains.

Complex problem-solver with analytical and driven mindset. Dedicated to achieving demanding development objectives according to tight schedules.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

DevOps Tech Lead: FORD FNV4 Build and Packaging

Luxoft
03.2021 - Current
  • Optimized resource allocation by effectively prioritizing tasks based on business needs and project timelines.
  • Developed comprehensive documentation to facilitate knowledge sharing among team members and support long-term maintenance efforts.
  • As tech lead in very dynamic build and packaging team responsible for building CI\CD system from scratch and DevOps engineers coordination for project with 120+ developers
  • Developed plan and roadmap for standardized docker build environments with following implementation(Ubuntu, QNX, Elecrtobit EBLInux, WRLinux, QC QNX, etc.) -
  • Mentored junior developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill improvement.
  • Estimated work hours and tracked progress using Scrum methodology.
  • Created proofs of concept for innovative new solutions.
  • Jenkins pipeline management implementation through DSL(IaaC) managing 100s of pipelines for multiple target platforms(full switch from manual updates to DSL controlled)
  • Ensure proper packaging of deliverables for different target platforms

Achievements:

  • Time needed to complete bulk updates or do maintenance reduced by 90% ) by implementing DSL workflow
  • Coordination with infrastructure teams(IaaS) to align needed GCP\GKE resources with project needs - Move from static Kubernetes pods to dynamically allocated and also making configuration versioned controlled that is resulted in 85% reduction of time needed to update infrastructure environments
  • Release workflows: automation of infrastructure preparation, branching and tagging automation
  • Migrations from Nexus to Artifactory
  • Electrobit environment migrations: successfully completed number of migrations starting EB v2.6 till version 2.14(2.6, 2.8, 2.10, 2.11, 2.14)

DevOps Tech Lead: FORD IVI VDP

Luxoft
03.2019 - 03.2021


  • Set up CI\CD systems from scratch for VDP project: Technology and tools stack: TeamCity, Nexus, Artifactory Ansible
  • Develop CI/CD ARM64 based build systems( custom Nvidia Jetson TX1\TX2 hardware)
  • Windows build systems
  • Dockerized environments for arm64 systems for native compilation
  • Develop build pipelines
  • Develop deployment procedures
  • Develop DevOps project documentation
  • Coordination with multiple downstream to establish automated software update process
  • CI\CD audit support - Project system integration into enterprise systems
  • Manage access for remote teams located worldwide
  • Roadmap planning for CI\CD systems
  • Periodic demo of automated systems to internal customers
  • Reporting to project management
  • Release process ownership and deployment to production
  • Setup SYNC labs and virtual development environments using custom arm64 based hardware
  • Design making on continuous integration and continuous delivery aspects of the project
  • Built strong relationships with stakeholders, ensuring clear communication channels for project updates and progress reports.
  • Collaborated with product managers to define technical requirements and develop innovative solutions for complex problems.


Achievements:


  • Setup APT native release flow that allow system deployments like it is part of operating system. Users need just to press "update" to get latest release of developed system
  • Automated release deployments to SYNC lab environments. Update of 300+ VDP+SYNC systems was taking less then 1 hour


Project Manager Technical Lead

Luxoft
04.2018 - 02.2019

Tech Lead/Project Manager: Capital Group

  • Establish scrum process
  • Ensured proper tracking of all incoming requests
  • Develop non-production and production release procedures
  • Reporting to stakeholders
  • Non-production environment and application support
  • Complex application deployment coordination including updates to database, informatica, linux
  • Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
  • Monitored progress against established goals, adjusting schedules and resources as needed to keep projects on track.

Project Manager

Luxoft
01.2016 - 04.2018

Project manager: Deutsche Bank RnC Project

  • Managing 2 streams with teams in Ukraine and Romania for Deutsche Bank: Development and delivery stream
  • Automation application development from scratch for regulatory and control operation users
  • RnC Ops user time required to perform trades back reporting decreased from average 4 days to 10 minutes
  • Development of high-level approach
  • Ensuring accurate timings for delivery E
  • Established new BAU processes
  • Regular negotiations with stakeholders and product owners
  • People management and staffing
  • Regular product upgrades and changes to ensure high quality of product Service stream
  • Managing SL3 level of support
  • SDLC process implementation


Achievements:

Under my supervision new UI based tool was developed and provided to operation teams in UK that helped to reduce time needed for trades replays from weeks to hours. That included software development along with new process establishment

Project Manager

Luxoft Romania
10.2014 - 01.2016

SL3 Project manager\Tech lead at Luxoft Deutsche Bank

  • Delivery management for L3 scope
  • Risk/Time/Scope Management - Planning, Reporting
  • Problem resolution
  • On boarding of new services and ensuring proper knowledge transition

Senior SL3 support engineer/Informatica ETL dev

Luxoft
10.2012 - 10.2014
  • SL3 support for Transaction Data Warehouse
  • Hotfix development and delivery for onboarded applications
  • Production release support activities
  • Project status updates reporting to management
  • Informatica hotfix development KT session for internal purposes
  • Support during audit activities

Support engineer

EPAM Systems
09.2010 - 10.2012
  • RTB support for Banking trading platforms, PnL and internal reporting systems
  • Support of internal users
  • Configuration managment
  • Full non-prod support
  • Release management
  • QA support

Snr. IT Spesialist

ACUMEN OUTSOURCING
05.2009 - 10.2010
  • Client: Ukrainian Radio Systems - Middleware software administration
  • ETL software administration(HP IUM)
  • HP BladeSystems administration, troubleshooting, fixing, deployment, installing and migration
  • Implementation of new hardware and writing specifications for future upgrades
  • Reporting about troubles and projects to IT management
  • Windows Server 2003R2 administration
  • 24/7 support for broadband and GPRS(WAP, Internet, MMS) services
  • Ensuring non-stop service for company customers

BSS Support Engineer

URS (TM Beeline)
05.2007 - 05.2009
  • Billing system administration
  • Incident management, second level of support
  • Internal users support
  • Intensive work with Oracle databases, script writing, reports creation
  • Short term problem resolving depending on the priority(from 1 hour up to 4 days)
  • Bug reporting to the 3-rd level of support(Outsourcing companies and developers )
  • Configuration management

Education

Bachelor of Science - Management Science

European University
Kyiv

Master of Science - Management

European University
Kyiv
01.2009

Skills

  • DevOps principles
  • Agile development methodologies
  • Process Improvement
  • Software Architecture
  • DevOps tools
  • Continuous Integration Systems
  • Build releases
  • Technical problem solving
  • CI\CD system implementation

Certification

  • IC Agile: ACP-ATF
  • Google: Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
  • Project Management Institute: Generative AI Overview for Project Managers

Personal Information

Title: Project Manager\Team Lead

Languages

Ukrainian
Native or Bilingual
Russian
Native or Bilingual
English
Full Professional

Trainings and cources

Luxoft Training center :

HPC 3.0-003 Effective presentation
HPC 3.0-005 Negotiations. Conflict Management
HPC 3.0-008 Delivery Maturity
HPC 3.0-001 Basics of Project Management
EAS-006 Data warehouse – modeling and design
SS-SCH-05 Art of persuasion
SS-SCH-04 People management
SS-SCH-03 Succesful communication
SS-SCH-02 Personal Effectiveness
SS-SCH-01 Management fundamentals
JVA-008 Development with Java® SE.
JVA-007 Development with Java® SE.
DB-007 Oracle 10g, PL/SQL Language for Developers
EAS-001 Informatica PowerCenter 8.6 Developer Level



Oracle university:

Oracle database 10g: SQL fundamentals 1

Oracle database 10g: SQL fundamentals 2


Hewlett-Packard:

U3986S - HP OpenView IUM: Fundamentals

00115801 - Implementing HP BladeSystems


Knowledge Center:

Posix shell programming




Timeline

DevOps Tech Lead: FORD FNV4 Build and Packaging

Luxoft
03.2021 - Current

DevOps Tech Lead: FORD IVI VDP

Luxoft
03.2019 - 03.2021

Project Manager Technical Lead

Luxoft
04.2018 - 02.2019

Project Manager

Luxoft
01.2016 - 04.2018

Project Manager

Luxoft Romania
10.2014 - 01.2016

Senior SL3 support engineer/Informatica ETL dev

Luxoft
10.2012 - 10.2014

Support engineer

EPAM Systems
09.2010 - 10.2012

Snr. IT Spesialist

ACUMEN OUTSOURCING
05.2009 - 10.2010

BSS Support Engineer

URS (TM Beeline)
05.2007 - 05.2009

Bachelor of Science - Management Science

European University

Master of Science - Management

European University
Sergii Kanishchev