20+ years of experience in engineering, 14+ in engineering leadership, 7+ in strategic leadership: developing and operating large-scale platforms and infrastructure, building foundational technologies from scratch, leading groups spanning multiple countries and cultures: US, DE, LT, PL, CY, and CIS. 12+ years in a hands-on, development-intensive individual contributor role, maintaining distributed production systems in Python, Erlang, and Java. Extensive background in architecting distributed systems, in-house cloud solutions, online platforms, and game distribution platforms - each solution for at least 1 million concurrent users.