ALEX SHULGA

7 Graydon Avenue, Newcastle, Co Dublin, Ireland, D22 E7K2 shulgaalexey@gmail.com +353 873320006 https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-shulga/ Citizen of Ireland

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING MANAGER I consider myself to be a pragmatic servant leader as well as a team player, as demonstrated by my experience working in research and architecture design for cloud services. As a result of my extensive career in this field, I have acquired excellent management skills across the software development life cycle. Currently, I am focused on the Developer Experience of Microsoft software developers using our One Engineering System.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

Methodologies: Agile/Scrum, OOP, BDD, CI/CD, Restful API, NoSQL, Cloud Services Languages: Java, Python, JavaScript, C, C++, C# Software: Git, Azure DevOps, JIRA, IDEs, SIEMs

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

MICROSOFT, Dublin, Ireland 6/2022 to present

Senior Software Engineering Manager – DevEx & AI Productivity, 6/2022 - present

• Leading a team of 4-9 Software Engineers
• The team is improving Developer Experience of thousands of software developers at Microsoft by automating tech support experience with innovative Microsoft chat bot technologies

RAPID7, Dublin, Ireland 8/2018 to 6/2022

Lead Software Engineer – Search Team, 1/2022 - 6/2022

• Led a team of 5 Software Engineers, that created Log Search services and query language Senior Software Engineer – Search Team, 8/2018 - 1/2022
• Created log search query language and scalable log search services for the industry-leading Rapid7 log management solutions
• Servant Leader and Scrum Master of a team of 5-6 Engineers; in 2021 the team created 15 new query language features in 7x less time
• Maintained and presenting to executives 2+ years development roadmap; working with stakeholders (Architects, InfoSec Experts, PM, UX, Customer Success, Publishers, Engineering) to facilitate cross-team cooperation; hiring, providing mentorship, encouraging the growth of Rapid7 Engineers
• Overseed, evaluating and contributing to source code development (Java, Python) following CI/CD practice; strongly focused on customer success metric analysis

SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS, R&D Headquarters Seoul, South Korea 11/2010 to 4/2018

Senior Software Engineer, 11/2010 - 4/2018

• Provided technical leadership in coordinating design and development activities of Scrum teams of up to 20 Researchers and Engineers in 3 overseas departments and 2 universities to create numerous Tizen OS Connectivity, Context Awareness, Intelligence and IoT APIs and services for mobile app and platform developers
• Reported project status to Lead of Tizen Advanced Developer Experience Lab
• Performed coaching and mentorship, promoted best programming practices and Agile methodology; trained customers to understand new tools and services
• Oversaw and evaluated source code development; facilitated stakeholder management, planned projects, defined architectures, and coordinated project release schedules
• Maintained Tizen API and IoT Tools source code in online open-source repositories MEDICOM MTD, Taganrog, Russia 8/2002 to 11/2012 Junior to Lead Software Engineer, 8/2002 - 11/2010
• Created software modules for biomedical diagnostic equipment for electroencephalography and electrocardiography

EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS

• Ph.D. in Computer Science Dissertation: Development of a Method and Adaptive Algorithms of Biomedical Signal Compression SOUTHERN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, Rostov-na-Donu, Russia

• Master of Science in Computer Science TAGANROG STATE UNIVERSITY OF RADIO ENGINEERING, Taganrog, Russia

• Professional Development & Training Social-Aware Ubiquitous Computing; Creative Software Design; Business Process Engineering and Management