
Andrii
From United Kingdom (UTC+1)
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Andrii is an accomplished engineering leader with proven success in scaling teams and driving technical strategies in high-growth environments. Experienced in guiding organizations from Seed to Series B, growing from 9 to 145 employees, and leading cross-functional teams across Backend, Frontend, and ML. Andrii combines a strong product mindset with deep technical expertise in scalable architectures, microservices, and cloud systems. He's recognized for a compassionate leadership style rooted in mentorship, career development, and fostering collaborative, high-performing cultures.
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Full-stack Product Engineer
A fast-paced Series A startup building cutting-edge internal tools powered by Large Language Models.
- Led development of a Microsoft Excel plugin powered by LLMs, enabling professionals to automate spreadsheet tasks, extract insights, and interact with data naturally.
- Focused on improving customer experience, refining LLM outputs, and ensuring product stability through structured testing, observability improvements, and fast iteration.
- Built and monitored product-level metrics using observability tools, helping identify bottlenecks and user friction points.
- Played a key role in shaping the plugin’s direction, balancing usability, performance, and AI accuracy.
- Participated in end-to-end product work, from prototyping and user testing to deployment and post-release iteration, collaborating closely with design and leadership.
- Contributed to LLM prompt engineering and response tuning for higher reliability and relevance in user-facing scenarios.
Lead Software Architect (Principal Engineer scope)
Freight-forwarding data visualisation and forecasting with ML-powered automation. Andrii joined the company at the Seed stage as the 9th employee and helped scale the team through Series A and B to 145 people. Contributed to building enterprise-grade software used by leading global freight forwarders (e.g., DHL, Kuehne+Nagel) and financial institutions (e.g., HSBC, Standard Chartered). Played a core role in technical strategy, architecture, and team scaling across the UK, India, and Ukraine.
- Defined the engineering vision and architecture roadmap to support strategic business growth.
- Standardised documentation and decision-making processes across all engineering teams.
- Led architectural reviews and technical design across Backend, Frontend, and ML domains, enabling system-wide consistency and scalability.
Engineering Manager
Freight-forwarding data visualisation and forecasting with ML-powered automation.
- Managed cross-functional teams, including line management of team leads and senior engineers.
- Oversaw delivery of high-impact features, balancing roadmap priorities with team velocity and morale.
- Mentored engineering talent, fostering a high-performance, collaborative culture across regions.
- Championed architectural improvements that enhanced platform reliability and onboarding speed.
Development Team Lead
Freight-forwarding data visualisation and forecasting with ML-powered automation.
- Led feature development for major clients, ensuring product excellence under tight timelines.
- Introduced team-level engineering rituals and mentoring frameworks that improved knowledge sharing and junior developer growth.
- Reduced tech debt and increased code quality by initiating refactors and testing strategies.
- Interviewed candidates, conducted onboarding, and led new team members. Helped other developers to improve their skills in their preferred directions.
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Freight-forwarding data visualisation and forecasting with ML-powered automation.
- Created Python, FastAPI back-end project, which provides API to both internal services and external clients to manage their document uploads and documents processing flows.
- Worked on React.js client-facing application which uses the previously mentioned API to provide operators with tools to upload, verify and process their scanned documents.
- Re-architected the back-end project to support a rapidly growing code base and allow for the simultaneous development of multiple related parts of our application in a stable and tested environment.
Full-Stack Developer
A cutting-edge start-up at the forefront of AI and Computer Vision Technology, building a real-time digital replica map of the world, to provide future industries the architecture they will need to connect to operate. Existed through an acquisition by Meta (Facebook at the time)
- Built and maintained React Native and web applications for large-scale computer vision data collection.
- Led the development of high-throughput Flask APIs for uploading and managing geospatial media.
- Refactored legacy codebases to improve UX and data quality.
- Reported directly to the CTO in a lean, fast-moving team.
Front-End Developer
The project intended to help cryptocurrency traders to analyze their trading results from different cryptocurrency exchanges
- Built and maintained user-facing React components for crypto analytics dashboards.
- Created a “Trader’s Diary” feature to visualise historical trading performance, including P&L per transaction.
- Contributed to frontend reliability and visual clarity in a fast-paced startup environment.