Vitalii Kharkovenko

Experienced Project Manager and Business Analyst with a strong technical and development background. I have combined 18 years in IT. Skilled in Software Development, CICD practices, and Project Management. Led cross-functional teams via Scrum and Agile methodologies and practices. 

Playtika - Vinnytsia, Ukraine

Project Manager and Technical Product Owner 2020 - 2024 

• Led Agile development team within a Scrum-based delivery process.
• Managed product backlog, analysed business requirements, and translated them into well-defined, actionable user stories with acceptance criteria.
• People management, including motivation, recruiting, onboarding, mentoring and performance development planning.
• Key Achievement: Created the Assets Pipeline with text localization in Crowdin, significantly accelerating the localization of the Slotomania game into new languages.
• Technology stack: Python, Groovy, Kotlin, Typescript, Bash, C#, MySQL, Jenkins, SQL, Crowdin, SVN, Git, Artifactory, Linux, Windows, Grafana, TeamCity, Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Github.

DevOps Team Lead and Scrum Master 2018 - 2020 

• Led a team of 5 DevOps engineers via Agile methodologies, ensuring efficient product delivery.
• Implemented Scrum practices and facilitated team collaboration.
• Managed technical debt and coached team members in best practices for software development.
• Key Achievement: Created MergeBot CI systems for monolith client code merging (over 10 dev teams contributions), speeding up the development process by 50% and reducing code conflicts by 70%. 
• Key Achievement: Reduced unwanted Maven dependencies by 80% by creating and integrating the Maven Dependency Validator into the TeamCity CI process.
• Technology stack: Jenkins, TeamCity, Groovy, Python, Bash, SQL, SVN, Git, Confluence, Jira, Bitbucket, Grafana, Artifactory.

DevOps and CI Automation Engineer 2015 - 2018 

• Build and standardise CI processes for microservices. Make them similar for all dev teams in the company. Technologies: TeamCity, Maven, Gradle, Sonarqube.
• Built and standardised CI processes for microservices across development teams.
• Integrated external dependency control systems and database change management tools to enhance CI pipelines.
• Key Achievement: Integrated Liquibase for all database changes, improving the delivery process by over 30%.
• Technology Stack: TeamCity, Maven, Gradle, SonarQube, WhiteSource, Snyk, Liquibase.

Java Developer 2014 - 2015 

• Designed, built, and tested Java services, including REST APIs and bug fixing.

Technical Lead 2012 - 2014 

• Managed a cross-functional team of 7, delivering the ScratThat Game from prototype to production.
• Mentored developers, organised delivery and work processes, managed stakeholders.

Orneon, TikGames - Vinnytsya, Ukraine

Software Developer 2006 - 2012 

• Led development of the Zonk game for social platforms and developed minigames for interactive web portals.
• Developed Xbox Flash SDK platform for gaming creation.

Certified Scrum Master by Scrum Alliance 2018

Master's Degree in Computer Science, Kyiv European University  2023

Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Vinnytsia Trade and Economic Institute   2008

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Cyber Security, Vinnytsia National Technical University  2006