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Artyom S.AS

Artyom S.

Principal Software Architect | CTO

€900/day
Lisbon, PT
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Artyom

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

  • Italian

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Lisbon (up to 50km)

Experience

  • UpRest (Syrve)
    Fractional CIO
    October 2025 - February 2026 (4 months)
    Lisbon, Portugal
    A scaling restaurant management software provider requiring rapid stabilization of technical support operations to prevent enterprise client churn.
    Retained to audit and overhaul a failing technical support division. Transitioned the department from reactive crisis management to a predictable, SLA-driven operation.
    • • Structural Order: Built a self-sustaining support infrastructure that eliminated the need for continuous high level oversight; effectively fulfilling the project mandate within 4 months.
    ◦ o Designed and launched a comprehensive Tech Support Policy for both the team and clients; successfully overcoming staff resistance to establish these standards as the "new normal".
    ◦ o Migrated the team to a unified task-tracking tool, ensuring every task is accounted for and progress is fully transparent.
    ◦ o Restructured internal communication mess: migrated from cluttered "single-chat" Telegram setup into focused, functional channels.
    • • Operational Efficiency: Slashed support ticket resolution average time: week → day.
    • • Direct Crisis Leadership: Personally de-escalated high-stakes conflicts with key decision-makers from 3 major accounts on the brink of cancellation; secured retention by restoring stakeholder trust and rapid service stabilization.
  • Upwork
    Senior Technical Consultant
    January 2017 - Today (9 years and 5 months)
    Providing strategic systems architecture and high-level technical oversight for international clients. Specializing in complex browser extensions, automation systems, and technical due diligence.
    • • Technical Vetting & Crisis Audits: Conducted high-impact codebase audits for NodeJS/Web stacks. Performed rapid architectural "teardowns" and software best practice reviews to identify security risks and eliminate performance bottlenecks.
    • • Browser-Integrated Systems Expertise: Established a niche as an Expert in complex, high-scale Chrome Extensions. Built robust browser-based automation and data-processing tools designed for stability and high-performance.
    • • Zero-Failure Track Record: Delivered 30+ custom software projects with a perfect 100% Job Success Score over 9 years. Demonstrated a relentless commitment to code quality and "Total Ownership" of every engagement, regardless of scale or duration.
    • • On-Demand Technical Advisory: Provided high-intensity, short-term consulting sessions for start-ups. Resolved specific architectural blocks, defined technical roadmaps, and optimized project workflows for remote development teams.
  • Howdy
    Principal Architect
    January 2022 - January 2025 (3 years)
    New York, NY, USA
    A B2B SaaS platform automating social media communications, transitioning from a legacy MVP to a high-load, scalable architecture
    Led the technical evolution of the product over a 3-year lifecycle. Successfully navigated from an intensive 6- month legacy rebuild through multiple phases of architecture stabilization, team expansion, and iterative feature rollouts.
    • • Technical Modernization: Spearheaded the complete rewrite of the legacy Chrome extension to a modern stack, eradicating accumulated technical debt and establishing a scalable foundation.
    • • Advanced System Design: Engineered resilient communication layers to interface with undocumented third-party APIs. Designed dynamic request-shaping mechanisms mimicking native client behaviour to bypass aggressive rate-limiting algorithms.
    • • Engineering Economics (OpEx): Slashed operational costs by $36,000 annually via a deep audit of the Google Cloud infrastructure, eliminating misconfigured backend lambdas and redundant storage.
    • • Engineering Standards & Governance: Authored rigorous internal development protocols, including comprehensive code style guide and code review policy, establishing a robust baseline for code quality.
    • • Engineering Culture & Mentorship: Actively managed team composition across various product cycles, conducting 15+ technical interviews. Ensured seamless knowledge transfer and maintained velocity during periods of engineer turnover.

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Education

  • Bachelor's in Economics
    Bachelor's in Economics
  • Bachelor of Economics
    State Linguistic University
    2005
    Bachelor of Economics

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