Oleh Sych

Key responsibilities: - Delivery ownership: release planning, execution control, delivery assurance. - People management: hiring, onboarding, performance reviews, coaching, conflicts resolution, motivation. - Close collaboration with engineering teams, product managers and customer support. - Building strong engineering culture, improving team’s experience, AI enabling. - Team strategy & vision planning, company business needs sensing. - Technologies: Rust, Python. - Deep, hands-on experience using AI to accelerate the software development lifecycle, improving how code is written, reviewed, or refactored.

Engineering Manager at world leading cyber security software company - IMPERVA by Thales Corp. Leading the team of end-to-end development and support DataSecurity software. My responsibilities are: - People Management: leading the hiring process, overseeing onboarding, providing a performance management, coaching and developing the team, resolving conflicts, retaining and motivating the team; - Delivery Management: work planning (participating in sprint planning, release planning, and defining team priorities), building and maintaining workflows (Agile, SAFe), execution control, delivery assurance, synchronizing with product managers and other teams; - Culture & Community Building: building engineering culture, strengthening team cohesion, establishing behavioral standards;

Engineering Manager at leading security company - IMPERVA (Data Security division). Leading a team of cyber security software development engineers.

Leading in Innovative technologies research: - Sensing state of the art and researches; - Strategy&Vision planning; - Developing PoCs of modern intelligent systems; - Patents materials preparation; - Presentation of materials and proposals to heads of the company Technologies: Braine, Python, Machine Learning (pytorch, TensorFlow), C, PowerPoint Topics: Mobile devices security, Biometric security, Intelligent data processing systems, Data processing and objects/events recognition

Leading of Software R&D team in Innovative Security technologies field (Anti-Malware security, Biometric security, network security, device protection security, User’s privacy). Management - General management of the department (laboratory) - Multi-projects & people management (50+ employees); - Technology sensing, strategy & vision planning - Technological development strategy definition, building the team; Development - Participation in new technologies development in the field of information security (Python, C/C++, Machine Learning, Data Mining); Representation - Communications with headquarter: department work's results presentation, PoC and project proposals presentation, communications and contacts dispatching; - Company representation in Universities of Ukraine, joint training programs organization; Organizational activities - Solving of internal department infrastructure issues.

Management - General management of the anti-virus company (up to 35 employees); - Definition, maintenance, adjustment of company's business strategy, and technological development strategy; Development - Participation in development of new technologies to counter malicious programs; - Conducting research and analysis of virus attacks, epidemics; Representation - Organization of cooperation with the government structures of Ukraine (Cyber-department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, SSU, DSTSZI, Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, etc.); - Training courses creation (internal and public), lectures, speeches of anti-virus protection problems; - Leading of company's technical press releases preparation, reviews of viral activity; - Presentation of the company in media (interviews on TV, printed and online publications); Partnership activities - Work with test centers: VirusBulletin, AV-TEST.org, AV-Comparatives and others (full cycle: from acquaintance to testing participation); - Technical cooperation with other anti-virus companies (primarily organization of virus samples exchange).

- Creation and organization of development teamwork (3 departments, including anti-virus laboratory, with up to 15 people total); - Client software architecture development; - Design, development of a technical task for anti-virus software client creation.

- Anti-virus kernel and anti-virus products architecture development; - Organization of work and management of the anti-virus laboratory (management of development team up to 6 people, training, development and implementation of motivation schemes); - Leading of new technologies development to counter malicious programs; - Coding of the anti-virus kernel, malware analysis, adding signatures to the anti-virus database; - Anti-virus laboratory automation software development; - Virus collection creating and management, company's official malware classification development, virus collection maintenance and supporting.

Training cadets of anti-virus security basics, searching for threats in computer systems methods, building an integrated system of anti-virus protection. Working with cadets on writing the theses. Participation in the State Examination Commission.

Main technical position in company - Team Leading; - Participation in Anti-Virus software development; - Participation in AV-engine development; - Malware research; - Contacts with other av-labs.

1996-2001 - ZSTU was named "Zhytomyr Institute of Engineering Technologies" (ZIET)