Artem Zhurid

About Artem Zhurid

Technical engineering leader with 18+ years of industry experience in delivering…

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Manager

   Amazon Web Services (AWS)

   May 2018 — Present

   Leading multiple software development engineering teams to deliver data plane ingress and egress mission for AWS IoT Core services. Owner of IoT Core Device Gateway area and responsible for connectivity of all platform’s IoT devices with high availability and scale. • Building efficient engineering teams by recruiting talent (20+ hires), developing leads and promoting engineers (10+), mentoring and growing managers (2+), addressing low performance concerns (8+), and scaling by creating new team structures with own charters. • Defining team narrative and mission, performing SWOT analyses, creating groomed backlogs and initiatives lists, building multi-year strategic roadmaps. Optimizing processes including sprint planning and execution, oncall responsibilities and ops reviews, retrospectives. • Track record delivering on AWS goals and re:Invent launches like MQTT5 support, Kafka Action, HTTP Action, Custom Domains support. Facilitating and supporting cross-team feature development like Large Payload, Basic Ingest, Per-Device-Logging, Alexa for IoT, etc. • Enabling key customers and partners to onboard to AWS IoT Core by identifying gaps and addressing with reusable solutions, managing across teams and influencing organizational priorities to unblock customers, aligning to long term architecture, consulting customers. • Creating team culture of innovation through own ideas and inventions, encouraging and funding productizing innovative proposals, enabling risk taking without fear of failure through enhanced team safety practices, and allocating time for regular hackathon events. • Championing software engineering and operational excellence best practices. Leading infra reduction and cost optimizations. Created escalation manager’s reporting process, developed centralized dashboards and runbooks, enabled automated customer impact reporting.

Education

• University of Washington

  BS, Computer Engineering

  2002 — 2004

• University of Washington

  MS, Computer Science

  2008 — 2011

• MCP Program

  Certification, Designing and Implementing Databases with MS SQL Server 7.0

  2001 — 2001

• University of Washington

  Certification, Game Development

  2006 — 2007

Skills

• Software Engineering
• Xml
• Integration
• Distributed Systems
• Scrum
• Tfs
• C#
• Win32 Api
• Agile Methodologies
• Programming
• Visual Studio
• Web Services
• Java
• C++
• Software Design
• Test Automation
• User Experience
• Oop
• Software Documentation
• Software Development
• Operating Systems
• .net
• Testing