Victor Pudeyev

Experienced Director of Engineering Specializing in Technology: Driving Innovation, Leading High-Performing Teams, and Delivering Complex Web Solutions at Scale.

A software professional with over a decade of hands-on experience solving business needs with technology.

Experience

Wasya Co

Full-time 
Austin, TX - Hybrid
  • Senior Director of Engineering
    2024 -

    As a seasoned Senior Director of Engineering, I excel in leading cross-functional teams with expertise in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Python, and AI. Leveraging my strategic vision, I drive the successful execution of innovative projects, fostering a culture of excellence and collaboration. My proven track record includes delivering cutting-edge solutions in dynamic and challenging environments.

  • Director of Engineering
    2023 -

    My responsibilities include: leading and managing teams of software engineers, overseeing the design and development of software solutions for clients, and ensuring the timely delivery of high-quality products. I am responsible for providing technical guidance, mentoring, and fostering a collaborative and innovative environment within the team. I play a crucial role in client engagement, understanding their requirements, and aligning technical solutions provided by Wasya Co with their business objectives.

  • Software Engineering Lead
    2021 -

    Providing Architecture and Implementation of Software Systems for Various Clients.

Finra

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Houston, TX
  • Arbitrator
    2023 -

    Arbitrating and moderating Finra's clients' disputes.

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Haulhub

Full-time 
Chicago, IL - Hybrid
  • Senior Software Engineer
    2020 - 2021

    Bringing efficiency and automation to heavy construction industry's transportation management.

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Credit Ninja

Full-time 
Chicago, IL
  • Senior Software Engineer
    2018 - 2020

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Wasya Co

Full-time 
San Jose, CA
  • Software Engineering Manager
    2017 - 2018

    Projects and Clients:

    • Creek Enterprisse
    • ZM Digital
    • Redes Y Edificaciones S.A.
    • Zayn
    • Coincidence Networks

    Responsibilities:

    • Manage small, agile teams of 2-6 developers.
    • Use industry-standard practices of test-driven development in fulfilling technical specifications
    • Write extensive documentation and supporting tools
    • Formulate and plan a marketing strategy
    • Provide ongoing maintenance & security updates to the deployed systems
  • Principal Software Engineer
    2015 - 2017

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Operaevent

Full-time 
Fremont, CA
  • Software Architect
    2016 - 2017

    Operaevent's product is a platform for audience engagement for twitch.tv. The platform is a game ecosystem that allows buying and spending currency, progressing one's character, accomplishing quests, battling other players, and finding easter eggs. The technical stack is ruby on rails, node.js, react.js, chrome extension, redis, aws, chef, bootstrap.css, and related technologies.

    Responsibilities:

    • Provided architecture and implementation of the software system
    • Provided guidance and leadership to junior staff
    • Performed code review, planning, and other managerial tasks
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Nexenta Systems, Inc.

Full-time 
Santa Clara, CA
  • Senior Software Engineer
    2014 - 2015

    Nexenta Edge is an object storage system similar to S3 and Openstack Swift.

    Responsibilities:

    • Use non-relational and in-memory datastores to achieve high performance of systems.
    • Implement automated testing, disaster recovery and extensive monitoring to guarantee uptime, robustness and resilience of the system. Automate build and deployments with Jenkins and custom scripts.
    • Write a collection of API’s in node.js to implement open storage standards: Openstack Swift and S3.

Wasya Co

Full-time 
San Jose, CA
  • Senior Software Engineer
    2012 - 2014

    Projects and clients included:

    • Serro LLC
    • Cruisewise
    • Techvox
    • Marchesi Design
    • ITU
    • Goji Access
    • BJJCollective
    • Liatrio
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    Responsibilities:

    • Build applications in hybrid stacks: Ruby on Rails + dozens of other components and JavaScript (Node.js, Socket.js, React.js, jQuery).
    • Used industry-standard TDD, BDD practices in fulfilling technical specifications
    • maintained existing projects and performed iterative feature implementation
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MediaTec Publishing

Full-time 
Chicago, IL
  • Software Engineer
    2009 - 2011

    Mediatec Publishing Inc. maintains the following resources: http://clomedia.com, http://diversity-executive.com, http://talentmgt.com, http://www.certmag.com. These resources are online and print magazines, as well as an annual conference event. The target audience is corporate learning professionals, such as Chief Learning Officers and talent aquisition managers.

    Responsibilities:

    • Advised the team on the use of technology; Suggested and implemented the use of CakePHP
    • Suggested and implemented iterative development and test-driven development
    • Used Fedora, Solaris, Apache, DNS, PHP, CakePHP, MySQL, Ruby, Java, Spring, Alfresco, Tomcat, Perl, HTML/CSS, jQuery
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NACLO

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Ann Arbor, MI
  • Academic Specialist
    2008 - 2009

    NACLO is the North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad. It is a project run by students and faculty of several universities - among which is the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

    Responsibilities:

    • Composed questions for the linguistic olympiad
    • Translated a number of resources from Russian to English
    • Performed some web admin and linux admin for online and off-line resources (websites, data sets, corpora, user management, and resource management)