Vladimir Lazarev

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ABOUT VLADIMIR LAZAREV

Engineering leader with 8 years of experience in scaling teams, shaping technical strategy, and building reliable, scalable systems across fintech, travel, and media domains. I\'ve led cross-functional teams of up to 50 people, built departments and products from scratch, and improved systems architecture, delivery pipelines, and engineering culture.I thrive in high-growth, product-focused environments — whether launching a new product, scaling a team, or untangling legacy infrastructure. I care deeply about mentorship, team career growth, and building healthy, autonomous teams that ship high-quality work. I’ve driven engineering execution across backend, frontend, and infrastructure. Hands-on when needed, especially with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, React, and Bun.My key abilities— Leading engineering teams in fast-paced, iterative environments. For instance, scaled media projects from 6.5kk to 30kk MAU and handling x2 headcount growth— Managing performance, hiring, onboarding, and feedback cycles— Driving architecture improvements and reducing technical debt by implementing practices like Event Storming, Domain-Driven Design, RFC, ADR or Post-mortems— Aligning engineering with business needs and product goals: from using Agile frameworks like Kanban or Extreme Programming to reorganising departments with the Team Topologies approach to implementing methodologies like DevOps or SRE— Fostering engineering culture grounded in ownership, quality, and growth.Other familiar tools: Jest, Express, Elysia, Hono, htmx, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, Kafka, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD, NGINX.Let’s connect!