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Sam Bond
Looking for a jobHead of Development
Engineering Manager at SoftwareCats who launched a 5-year FinTech project with an AI-agent SDLC and a team of five.
Russian FederationHead of Development at SoftwareCats
About
At SoftwareCats, I built an AI-agent SDLC that helped launch a five-year FinTech legacy project with 13 backend modules into limited pre-production in five months. The team of five used custom agents for architecture, development, testing, review, and QA.
On a candidate-matching platform, I led a team of 6–10 engineers and introduced AI screening that cut manual screening time from 14 hours to two minutes. I also developed microservices and implemented business processes with Camunda BPM.
Earlier, I designed an algorithmic crypto trading platform from scratch, reducing latency from 500+ ms to 12–20 ms. I’ve spent 11 years in enterprise FinTech, working across payment gateways, banking services, and low-latency trading, with deep JVM experience in Java and Kotlin.
Experience
Head of Development
Led development across 7 projects in various domains, with team sizes from 2 to 80. Managed cross-functional teams and delivered multiple projects including AI-agent-based SDLC, automated HR management, marketing CRM for a bank, payment gateway, and algorithmic trading platform.
JavaKotlinSpring FrameworkPostgreSQLKafkaKubernetesDockerAI AgentsClaude CodeOpenAI CodexCamunda BPMKeycloakMicroservicesLow Latency Systems
Head of Development / Team Lead
Rebuilt a 30-person cross-functional team after previous lead departed with ~50% attrition, hiring 12 engineers in 7 months and restoring a 3-week release cycle. Designed and implemented full SDLC, integrated credit scoring and credit history providers, and led pilot rollout of Diasoft ABS.
Education
Stratoplan
Completed the Formula of Project Management certification by Ivan Selikhovkin in 2018.
Completed the Formula of Project Management certification by Ivan Selikhovkin in 2018.
Stratoplan
Completed the Formula of Working with People certification by Alexander Orlov in 2018.
Completed the Formula of Working with People certification by Alexander Orlov in 2018.
Stratoplan
Completed the Formula: How to Become a Manager certification by Vyacheslav Pankratov in 2018.
Completed the Formula: How to Become a Manager certification by Vyacheslav Pankratov in 2018.
Novosibirsk State University
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Novosibirsk State University, completed in 2011.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Novosibirsk State University, completed in 2011.