Igor Ovchinnikov

I have Team Lead experience of more than eight years and overall experience in software development of over twenty years, mainly Web development. Now leading a team of four backend developers with four custom projects in AdTech industry as a part of Criteo.

Staff SDE Lead | Criteo Aug 2022 till now

Leading team of five developers with several AdTech projects.

Main responsibilities

• Code review;
• Performance review;
• Newcomers onboarding;

Managing hardware costs of several AdTech projects. Managed to decrease costs by 10-20%.

Technical Team Lead | Iponweb Jun 2018 - Apr 2022

• Leading team of five developers with four AdTech projects
• Developing customized DSP and SSP systems
• Code review, team performance review, architectural decisions, newcomers onboarding and other people management.

• Development of AdTech platforms (SSP, DSP, DMP).

Dec 2008 - May 2012

• Development of official broadcasting company site: 100k uniqs daily, traffic volume, including CDN, more than 100Tb/month.

• Moving project to cluster. 

• Information technology/systems integration
• Leading a team of five software developers in the Joblist Project (Joblist.ru was one of the leaders in online recruitment prior to sale to HeadHunter. Audience: 1.5 mln people).

• Switching project from single server to cluster
• Integration with external search engine service of AGAVA company (AdSearch).

• Development of Intranet services.

• Integration of billing system for dedicated hosting section with corporate payments processing system
• Development of custom SCM system using AJAX-client over SOAP-services.

Moscow Aviation Institute, Moscow, Russia

Majoring in Spacecrafts Energy Systems

Graduated with a Diploma with Honors 2002