Alexander Zheka

Led a 50+ engineer platform organization, aligning cross-country product and business stakeholders while increasing team velocity, motivation, and cross-domain collaboration. Reduced platform build/run costs through vendor optimization, defined shared platform goals and OKRs/KPIs, and established target engineering profiles to scale delivery.

Engineering Manager for a cross-functional team, driving individual growth through structured 1:1s, development planning, and strategic hiring to improve team consistency and performance. Operated as a player-coach, delivering hands-on improvements to shipping speed, infrastructure efficiency, and cloud cost optimization through GitHub pipeline scaling, JVM native image adoption, and GCP metrics/logs migration towards custom solution.

Coordinated an 8-engineer delivery team in a high-scale order management and fulfillment domain, acting as the bridge between product and engineering while leading solution architecture and technical delivery. Contributed hands on using Kotlin and TypeScript in containerized GCP environments, improving reliability and SLA adherence through observability, alerting, and site reliability practices.