Dmitrii Balabanov

Experience

EBAC Online 02.2022-now

CTO

• AI Tutor implementation
• Managing a fully remote, distributed team
• Introducing best development practices, including incident review process, OKRs, SCRUM, unit tests, and developer’s duty process
• Hiring and managing the development team
• Implementing a company-wide Data Mesh and transitioning some in-house solutions to AWS
• Implement telephony system from scratch
• Visibility: metrics, logs, tracing, and alerting
• LMS python simulators

Monetization Platform Department, Yandex, Moscow 01.2021-02.2022

Software architect

• Designed high-level architecture for financial platforms
• Developed Yandex PSP using microservices and event sourcing design patterns
• Achieved PCI DSS Level 1 Compliance with card storage (6M+ transactions/yr)
• Desing PCI DSS architecture in Yandex.Cloud. Redesign cryptography schema from scratch
• Served on Yandex Python committee and Arcadia (Yandex monorepository build system) workgroup

automation and support of internal processes Department, Yandex, Moscow 03.2018-01.2021

Deputy Head

• Launched MDH (gold record) service
• Implemented architecture design review process
• Migrating development process to Yandex monorepository (aka Arcadia)
• Developed MVP of Yandex.Billing platform (1C on steroids, FaaS, etc)

Payment, partner and billing systems Division, Yandex, Moscow 08.2017-03.2018

Head of direction

• Launched electronic document management service
• Implemented incident management process

Billing, Yandex, Moscow 11.2015-08.2017

Head of service

• Launched services for cash registers (54 federal law compliance)
• Launched the user api key counter service
• Launched the bank integration service
• Developed billing software systems, including price/tax management, invoicing, online processing, and document flow
• Designed high-availability distributed billing system architecture
• Hired and interviewed developers, and implemented performance review process

Billing, Yandex, Moscow 07.2012-11.2015

Team lead

• Develop significant parts of billing core.
• Interviewing and hiring developers
• Internal PSP service
• PCI DSS compliant card storage

Billing, Yandex, Moscow 02.2010-07.2012

Senior software developer

• Develop significant parts of billing core.
• Document flow system

Billing, Yandex, Moscow 03.2008-02.2010

Software developer

• Python coding
• xscript, xml/xslt, CORBA

Intersoft Lab, Moscow 2006-2008

Team lead

• Develop tools to build business reports. BI, OLAP
• High performance library from scratch to access Oracle from Python

Intersoft Lab, Moscow 2002-2006

Software developer

• Lot of C++, pascal
• Delphi, C++ Builder environments
• VCL library internals

Education

Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (State University) (MIPT) 1998-2004

Master of mathemagical science

• Economics, Mathematics, Physics

Skills

• Software Architecture and Design
• Expertise in Team Management and Leadership
• Code Quality Assurance and Review
• Specialized in High-Availability System Development and Management
• Advanced Knowledge in Linux Internals
• Extensive Experience in Artificial Intelligence
• Cloud Computing: Function-as-a-Service, Database-as-a-Service, Various XaaS Models, Terraform, Kubernetes
• Programming Languages: Python, C++, Bash, Go, JavaScript, SQL, TypeScript
• Web Development: HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Continuous Integration Tools: Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions
• In-depth Knowledge of Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Kafka
• Strong Understanding of Compliance Standards: SOX, PCI DSS
• Paintbrush

Languages

• Russian: Native
• English: Intermediate
• Hebrew: Alphabet+

Interests and Activities

• Technology, Open-Source, Programming
• Yachting (YIT skipper license), Snowboard, Roller-skates, Photography, Hiking
• Surfing, Kitesurf, Windsurf
• Singing Folk, Lindyhop Dancing
• Horseriding, Archery
• Psychology