Mariia Shinkareva

- Greenfield Infrastructure & Process Engineering: Architected and executed a "from-scratch" engineering transformation, building the platform and core technical processes to support rapid business scaling. - Engineering Governance & AI Integration: Established company-wide coding standards and systematic quality gates. Spearheaded the integration of AI-assisted development tools into the SDLC, optimizing engineer productivity and reducing technical debt. - Market-Wide Standardization: Designed and launched the first universal OSAGO purchase protocol in Uzbekistan. Scaled it to all major national insurance providers, effectively setting the industry standard and slashing partner onboarding time. - Automated Product Delivery: Engineered the region's first fully automated App Store & Google Play release system, eliminating manual bottlenecks and materially reducing Time-to-Market (TTM) and operational failure risk. - Infrastructure Strategy: Developed a scalable microservice platform that enabled 5+ independent product teams to deploy features without increasing integration complexity or operational overhead. - Leadership & Culture: Built a high-performing bilingual engineering organization. Cultivated a blameless, ownership-driven culture focused on proactive automation and aligning technology decisions with business P&L goals.

- Green Master Methodology: Co-led the implementation of a "Green Master" (Always-Ready-to-Deploy) strategy. This ensured continuous delivery stability by enforcing strict quality gates and preventing broken code from entering the main branch. - LiveOps Automation: Engineered automated pipelines for LiveOps features, enabling rapid content updates and real-time game adjustments without manual intervention, directly impacting player engagement and retention. - Engineering Excellence Tools: Designed and deployed custom internal tools for code quality control, including advanced linters and pre-commit hooks. This standardized the codebase across global teams and reduced CI/CD failure rates. - High-Load CI/CD Architecture: Optimized and managed complex build pipelines in TeamCity, handling massive scale and high-frequency deployments for top-grossing mobile titles. - Developer Velocity: Focused on reducing "build-to-test" feedback loops, significantly increasing developer velocity by automating routine release engineering tasks.

- Platform Software Development: Engineered and maintained high-performance internal services and Python-based frameworks to automate complex workflows across the company’s engineering ecosystem. - Infrastructure-as-Code & Integration Engineering: Designed and implemented sophisticated middleware to bridge Jira API and TeamCity, creating a seamless, automated bridge between project management and build execution. - Custom Tooling Development: Built high-load internal bots and CLI tools from scratch to optimize the developer experience (DevEx). These tools facilitated real-time feedback loops and automated large-scale release coordination. - Scalable Automation Systems: Developed backend logic for the DAO (Developer Automation & Operations) internal platform, ensuring high availability and low latency for tools used by thousands of engineers. - Advanced Python Implementation: Applied expert-level Python engineering to solve infrastructure bottlenecks, focusing on performance, asynchronous processing, and system resilience within a massive high-load environment.

- Infrastructure for Complex Systems: Built a high-performance testing and simulation infrastructure for vehicle-to-cloud platforms using Protobuf. - Synthetic Data Engineering: Developed generators for high-frequency telemetry frames (com-module), simulating real-time hardware signals for system stress-testing. - Data Validation at Scale: Utilized Clickhouse and RabbitMQ to build automated verification systems for massive telemetry datasets.

- Engineering Process Transformation: Led the transition from manual quality assurance to a Quality Engineering model, integrating automated checks directly into the CI/CD pipeline. - Infrastructure for Automation: Designed and implemented a unified automation framework from scratch, significantly increasing testing throughput and reducing post-release defects. - Strategic Leadership: Managed and scaled a cross-functional team, aligning quality milestones with product roadmaps and business delivery targets. - SDLC Optimization: Streamlined the development lifecycle by introducing automated feedback loops, resulting in a [X]% reduction in time-to-market for key product features.

- End-to-End Streaming Automation: Orchestrated a comprehensive test automation strategy for high-load media platforms. Achieved 100% automated coverage of complex streaming functionality, including FFmpeg-based transcoding pipelines and multi-bitrate delivery. - Custom Tooling for Media: Designed and built a suite of internal tools specifically for validating video codec integrity, stream metadata, and real-time broadcast stability under extreme viewership loads. - CI/CD Pipeline Integration: Seamlessly integrated the entire automated testing ecosystem into the core development pipelines, ensuring that quality validation became a mandatory, automated stage of the SDLC.

- Core System Automation: Developed a high-performance automation framework for the Core Banking System (Backend) and the flagship mobile application. - Technical Research & Strategy: Conducted deep technical research to select the optimal automation stack, establishing the foundation for scalable testing across the fintech ecosystem. - CI/CD & Reporting: Built and optimized delivery pipelines using TeamCity, Java (JUnit), and Maven, implementing Allure for advanced transparent reporting. - Engineering Mentorship (Yandex Academy): Selected as an instructor for Yandex Academy, teaching advanced testing methodologies and mentoring the next generation of engineers. - Innovation & Hackathons: Active participant and winner in internal hackathons, prototyping automation tools and process improvements.

- Video Systems Foundation: Automated testing of software for video recording, storage, and processing using Bash and TestComplete.

- Infrastructure Maintenance: Provided technical support and system maintenance for a high-density web hosting environment, managing thousands of active web services. - Disaster Recovery: Managed large-scale website restorations from backups, ensuring data integrity and minimal downtime for clients after system failures or security breaches. - Server-Side Troubleshooting: Diagnosed and resolved complex issues related to Linux server environments, including DNS, web servers (Apache/Nginx), and database performance.