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Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

FinTech · EMEA · Cyprus · Limassol

Total compensation band $180K+. The figure is the member's band, not an offer.

Seasoned CTO with 9+ years of engineering leadership experience, specializing in scaling high-availability systems and engineering organizations. Proven track record of improving system reliability from 97% to 99.99%, scaling teams from 14 to 60+ engineers, and delivering mission-critical platforms in FinTech and gaming industries. Expert in Java, AWS, microservices architecture, and implementing observability platforms with strong focus on business value delivery.

Achievements

• Scaled engineering department from 14 to 60+ specialists at 01tech
• Improved system availability from 97% to 99.99% for mission-critical services
• Reduced MTTR from 76 to 19 minutes and improved release success rate to 93%
• Increased EBITDA x30 and grew team from 2 to 20+ at L2Saga gaming company
• Delivered mission-critical billing platform for 20+ B2B SaaS products at Sberbank

Skills

• CTO Leadership
• Engineering Leadership
• Technical Leadership
• Software Architecture
• System Architecture
• Microservices Architecture
• High Availability
• Cloud Architecture
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• Team Building
• Organizational Design
• Strategic Planning
• Performance Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering
• 99.99% High Availability Systems

Looking for

• Chief Technology Officer
• VP Engineering
• Head of Engineering

Experience

• Engineering Manager — Banco Plata March 2026 - Present

  Leading Notification Platform development and engineering team management.

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) / Department CTO — 01tech January 2024 - January 2026

  Led development and delivery for product stream, managed leadership layer of 13 people, scaled engineering department from 14 to 60 specialists, improved system reliability to 99.99%.

• Information Technology Lead — VTB September 2023 - January 2024

  Led development of business-critical ITSM system for 80,000 employees, performed architecture design and microservices decomposition.

• Solutions Architect / Department CTO — Sberbank December 2021 - September 2023

  Led development of mission-critical automated billing platform for 20+ B2B SaaS products, managed cross-functional team of 35 people, acted as Product Owner.

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) — L2Saga.net June 2017 - December 2021

  Ran 20-person GameDev company as CTO and co-owner, led MMO product with 3,000+ concurrent users, increased EBITDA x30 and improved availability to 99.9%.

• Senior Java Software Engineer — Freelance | Self-Employed March 2015 - June 2017

  Custom development for projects of varying scale and complexity as independent contractor.

Languages

• English (B2)
• Russian (C2)

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