Lev Leontyev

Leading a team Improving processes Making team happy and productive

Built a reporting product that powers revenue distribution mechanism for a major US Publisher, which was one of the critical project requirements. Same product is used by several other client-facing teams in the company for tracking and fixing discrepancies, which in turn decreases client losses.

Increased the team size twice (12 → 24), supported company growth when it was attracting many new clients. Majority of those people are still with the company. Led the first year of the Bidswitch platform development (now: a world-leading programmatic marketplace, 400+ clients connected, 500B+ bids/day bidswitch.com) from the technical side, laid the foundation of future growth. Built an onboarding framework (lectures + KB + tasks) used across the company to speed up new hires onboarding.

European Supply Side Platform I was building grew up from zero to 400M impressions per day US Demand Side Platform I was building grew up nearly twice in revenue.

Migrated part of social network's database from Oracle to MySQL with zero downtime Integrated Mail.ru social network with Mail.ru payment system, opening a new revenue stream for social network

Made deep refactoring for NEWSru.com platform, solved scalability issues by reworking architecture and introducing sophisticated content caching mechanisms Completely solved feedback form spam issues by implementing an elegant in-house anti-spam solution