oleksahud
Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager with 8+ years of professional experience leading platform engineering, cybersecurity delivery, and cloud-native automation teams within enterprise environments. Skilled in scaling distributed engineering teams (US/EU/LATAM), governing secure cloud delivery, and aligning technical initiatives with business and compliance needs. Strong technical background in DevOps (Cloud technologies, IaC, CM), programming (Go, NodeJS, VueJS), scripting (Python, Bash) enabling hands-on oversight of automation, observability strategy, and engineering tooling. Academic contributor and mentor improving engineering culture through structured coaching and knowledge sharing.
Experience: 9 years
Yearly salary: $92,000
Hourly rate: $40
Nationality: πΊπ¦ Ukraine
Experience
Engineering Manager (FedRAMP Security & Platform Programs)
SoftServe 2024 - 2025
Led delivery for 4 concurrent security-focused engineering projects (~35 FTE) and previously managed 7 global engineering units (~40 FTE) during a cross-organizational transition. Established SCRUM governance for distributed engineering teams across US/EU/LATAM regions, improving release predictability, estimation accuracy, and risk transparency. Built unified observability migration approach (Datadog β Splunk) leveraging AWS architecture patterns to reduce long-term tooling overhead. Developed a KPI performance dashboard using Python, which enabled measurable budgeting decisions and generated a 20% quarter-over-quarter funding increase. Supported creation of AI-assisted vulnerability remediation tooling to accelerate ticket triage and reduce operational burden on engineers. Completed hiring and onboarding for a FedRAMP-aligned team within 2 weeks, optimizing budget utilization and technical competency matching.
Technical Project Coordinator
SoftServe 2022 - 2024
Executed cost-performance compromise strategy maintaining delivery goals without additional headcount, reducing workload pressure while meeting roadmap commitments. Automated QBR and KPI processing with Python + Bash, saving ~80 hours per quarter and improving leadership visibility into delivery performance. Built a smart backlog labeling solution using Python, automatically classifying engineering workload and reducing manual JIRA administration. Coordinated Ukraine-LATAM operational collaboration, enabling 24/7 team coverage for enterprise platform reliability.
DevOps / Platform Engineering
SoftServe 2018 - 2022
Built enterprise inventory system using Python + VueJS, implemented across multiple departments; recognized as Hackathon Winner and sustained as a core operational asset. Designed initial monitoring and observability foundations using Bash + Ansible, later evolved into full platform telemetry strategies. Automated upgrade routines, firmware management, policy enforcement, and platform tooling, reducing manual load and accelerating onboarding.
DevOps / Platform Operations
SoftServe 2017 - 2018
Coordinated 50+ globally distributed storage appliances and managed outage response workflows, improving SLA-aligned recovery and escalation efficiency. Certified NetApp storage administrator supporting multi-tenant cybersecurity products and infrastructure availability.
Skills
ai
dataops
devops
product-manager
project-manager
python
engineering-manager
english
ukrainian