My name is Tatiana and I am a full-stack software engineer and engineering leader.

I moved to Denver, Colorado from St Petersburg, Russia when I was 19. I currently live in Denver metro area where I enjoy 300 days of sunshine and spend time with my awesome yellow lab Chelsea.

Experience

I am a Full-Stack Software Engineer and Engineering Leader who values diversity and inclusion, consistently delivering business value, and customer focus. I find and fix inefficiencies in workflows and see the details while never losing sight of the big picture. While I love tracking down and squashing the most obscure bugs, I also take pride in building a high performing, collaborative, and happy team that values communication and mentorship.

08/21-present

Engineering Manager, Growth - Curology

I am currently managing a team of 8 software engineers focused on rapid iteration and A/B testing to facilitate subscriber growth.

10/19-08/21

Engineering Manager - Validity

I managed a team of 3-5 engineers ranging from junior to principal both in person and fully remote. My responsibilities included one-on-ones, career development, agile ceremonies (standup, grooming, retro, planning, demos), working with product management (roadmap, breaking down high-level requirements into sizable cards, trade-off analysis), stakeholder communication, team OS, hiring and onboarding. In this role I have taken a product from concept to soft-launch, reduced knowledge silos and improved on-call workflow. As a player-coach, I also gave feedback in code reviews and completed cards.

05/16-10/19

Senior Software Engineer - Return Path (acquired by Validity)

I was a top performer on a small agile team responsible for feedback loop service (FBL), which we provide on behalf of 18 mailbox providers. I played a critical role in designing, developing, testing, and deploying version 2.0 of the application, transitioning from a jQuery/PHP/Oracle tech stack to React/Go/PostgreSQL/AWS. My team successfully migrated over 300,000 customer accounts with no rollbacks, data loss, or outages while still supporting legacy applications. After being promoted to Senior Software Engineer, I continue designing, developing, testing and deploying new features and bug fixes, as well as mentoring junior engineers.

09/12-05/16

Web Aplication Developer - SurveyGizmo (now Alchemer)

Starting as a Support Developer, I helped my team achieve zero defect status in just a few months, addressing well over 1000 bugs in the application. I worked my way up to Core Developer in October 2013. I developed new features, enhanced existing tools, fixed defects, performed QA, pair programmed, and code reviewed junior developers. I also provided advanced support and troubleshooting of escalated issues.

Tech Skills

JavaScript

React

jQuery

HTML

CSS

GO

PHP

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Redis

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

APIs

Git

Education

Master’s Degree

Web Design and Development – University of Denver. Graduated in 2015 with a 4.0 GPA.

Bachelor’s Degree

Applied Information Systems – St Petersburg State University of Engineering and Economics. Graduated in 2007 with honors.

Projects

CivicsQuestions.com

I built CivicsQuestions to help immigrants like myself practice for the US Citizenship Test. Every day it helps thousands of users study to become US citizens.

ProjectSelfDefense.com

Interactive self-defense training website that covers topics from Women’s self defense to advanced firearms training.