Alexander Kolesnichenko

Technical Producer @ Scorewarrior

About

I am an Engineering Lead focused on Platform Engineering, Developer Experience, CI/CD, and applied AI. I build and scale company-wide engineering platforms, lead high-performance teams, and drive technical transformations that improve delivery speed, reliability, and developer productivity.At Playrix, I lead the DevExperience Platform (DevOps, DevTools, Build System, Mobile Automation, AI Platform), owning strategy, architecture, and execution across the entire delivery lifecycle.Key achievements:• Built a unified CI/CD platform running 17,000+ builds/day on 500+ agents.• Delivered corporate Quality Gates ensuring KPI < 60 min for all major projects.• Migrated build and test infrastructure from bare metal to AWS.• Accelerated C++ builds ×24 and reduced checkout to 3 minutes.• Migrated CI/CD and DevTools Nomad → Kubernetes (AWS EKS).• Built a macOS VM cluster with ≤10 min p95 queue times.• Delivered AI initiatives incl. Stimpak, an AI assistant that auto-fixes failing builds.I focus on building scalable engineering ecosystems that let teams ship faster, safer, and with predictable quality - combining infrastructure excellence, developer tooling, and AI-driven automation

Country

Cyprus

City

Limassol

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

FinOps Optimization, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Technical Program Management, Platform Strategy, Engineering Leadership, Quality Gates, CI/CD AI Agents (Stimpak, Devin-style workflows), AI-assisted Code Review, AI Automation for Engineering, Cloud Migration & Scaling, Infrastructure as Code (Kotlin DSL, Terraform), AWS (EC2, S3, Device Farm, VPC), Kubernetes (AWS EKS), Build Systems (C++, CMake, multi-platform), CI/CD Architecture, Internal Developer Platforms, Developer Experience (DevEx), Platform Engineering, Engineering Management , Coaching & Mentoring

Experience

Technical Producer

Scorewarrior

2026-2 - Present · 8 mos

Engineering Lead / Platform Engineering Lead

Playrix

2024-9 - 2026-2 · 1 yr 6 mos

Лимасол, Кипр

Oversee the company-wide CI/CD and build platform, drive AI-enabled automation and DevEx standards, and lead platform engineering initiatives to ensure scalable, reliable delivery across all Playrix games and internal services

Engineering Manager

Playrix

2022-10 - 2024-9 · 2 yrs

Лимасол, Кипр

Led several Scrum teams (Release, DevOps, Full-Stack, QA); scaled and managed cloud/on-prem CI/CD infrastructure; developed internal DevTools; defined team workflows and engineering practices; and ensured fast, reliable delivery of multi-platform products.

Team / Tech Lead

Playrix

2020-4 - 2022-10 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Санкт-Петербург, Россия

Led design and operations of company-wide CI/CD and build systems, managing multi-cloud and on-prem infrastructure (~8500 builds/day), maintaining cross-platform pipelines (iOS, Android, UWP, macOS), mentoring Build Engineers, aligning requirements with stakeholders, and establishing engineering standards.

Lead Build Engineer

Playrix

2017-9 - 2020-4 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Санкт-Петербург, Россия

Built Playrix’s CI/CD platform from scratch, ran high-load cross-platform pipelines, managed build infrastructure, and expanded the Build Engineering team.

Automation Team Lead

Social Quantum

2015-6 - 2017-9 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Санкт-Петербург

Led an automation team, developed and maintained an in-engine automated testing framework, managed CI/CD and release pipelines, and ensured stable automated testing and delivery.

Senior Automation Engineer

Social Quantum

2013-7 - 2015-6 · 2 yrs

Санкт-Петербург

Led an automation team, developed and maintained an in-engine automated testing framework, managed CI/CD and release pipelines, and ensured stable automated testing and delivery