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Oleksandr Iskhakov

Singapore

Summary

Software Engineering Technology Executive with over 20 years of experience spanning startup environments and large-scale highly regulated enterprises, combining technical leadership with hands-on expertise in system design and software architecture. Proven track record in building high-performing, cross-functional engineering teams and driving scalable platform initiatives across e-commerce, telecommunications, and financial services. Skilled at architecting complex systems, guiding technical direction, and remaining actively involved in critical design and technology decisions. Seeking a Director / Head of Software Engineering role to leverage both strategic leadership and deep technical capabilities.

Overview

25
25
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, Platform Engineering

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
02.2023 - Current
  • Led the end-to-end design and delivery of SingVerify, a secure and scalable API suite enabling real-time digital identity authentication through Telco Network Data.
  • Co-Defined and executed Open Digital Architecture (ODA) strategy, driving alignment with industry standards and future-proofing platform capabilities.
  • Architected and developed the Singtel Digital Enterprise Business Platform, ensuring modularity, scalability, and high availability.
  • Maintained regulatory compliance across highly regulated industries, embedding security and governance practices into product architecture.
  • Established engineering best practices, including code structure, review processes, and direct hands-on contributions to key platform features.
  • Managed and scaled cross-functional teams (Software Engineers, QAs, BAs, Project Managers), fostering a culture of ownership and technical excellence.
  • Drove people leadership activities, including performance reviews, career development, compensation decisions, and organizational design.
  • Enabled cross-team collaboration, effectively coordinating multiple product and platform teams to deliver aligned business outcomes.
  • Owned the full hiring lifecycle, from talent sourcing and technical interviews to final hiring decisions and offer negotiations.
  • Actively contributed to knowledge-sharing culture, delivering internal training sessions and speaking at industry meetups and technology forums.

Vice President, Software Engineering

Lazada Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Alibaba Group)
06.2020 - 02.2023
  • Owned the end-to-end technology strategy and architectural direction for the Redmart division of Lazada, driving scalable platform modernization and long-term tech vision.
  • Led cross-functional engineering teams comprising Software Engineers, QAs, and Business Analysts, orchestrating multi-team initiatives to deliver complex product roadmaps.
  • Actively contributed to critical system design and implementation, remaining hands-on with key microservices, backend systems, and real-time data pipelines.
  • Managed full-cycle hiring and team scaling, from talent identification and technical interviews to final hiring decisions and offer negotiations.
  • Built a strong engineering culture, promoting internal knowledge sharing through learning sessions and representing the company at external industry meetups and technology events.

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Lazada Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Alibaba Group)
06.2019 - 05.2020
  • Defined and owned tech strategy for the Automated Fulfillment Centre software platform
  • Designing, architecting and driving tech solutions related both to Automated Fulfillment Centre software platform as well as all other interrelated areas and departments
  • POCs and Hands-on development key features / microservices / data pipelines
  • Coordinating several teams to implement multi-team projects
  • Full loop of hiring activities: interviewing candidates, participation in hiring decisions
  • Sharing experience at internal learning sessions as well as external events (e.g
  • Industry tech meetups)

Technical lead and Architect

Redmart (Lazada, Alibaba Group)
09.2015 - 05.2019
  • Technical leadership in many e-commerce areas: finance, fulfilment, capacity management etc
  • Designing, architecting and implementing micro-services-based highly-loaded 24x7 solutions on JVM using Scala, Akka Actors, Akka Http, Akka Streams, Akka Cluster, Akka Persistence, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Cassandra, PostgreSQL, CQRS, Event Sourcing, AWS with high scalability and performance on real-time e-commerce system
  • Participation in company’s architecture and design committee
  • Coordination of several teams to implement multiple-teams projects
  • Hands-on development key features and microservices
  • Hiring activities: interviewing candidates, participation in hiring decisions
  • Sharing experience at internal learning sessions

Project Lead

Miratech
02.2013 - 08.2015
  • Leading up to 25 people team
  • Architectural and modelling researches based on .NET technologies
  • Designing and developing application architecture based around .NET technologies (ASP.NET MVC, WCF, NHibernate, Entity Framework, Oracle 11g, MS SQL SERVER 2012)
  • Hands-on development key features
  • A variety of integration and interoperation tasks
  • Source requirements collection, analysis and documentation with on-site customer interview
  • Tasks prioritisation, product backlog and sprint backlog preparations
  • Time estimation for development and testing
  • Quality control process organization (unit-testing, auto-testing, manual testing, coverage map, etc.)
  • Project progress reports and burndown reports creation
  • Tech support processes setup and management
  • New applicants’ interviews (engineers and testers)
  • Mentoring new recruits

Staff Engineer

Self-employed
11.2012 - 01.2013
  • Trading strategies research, development and tuning
  • Architectural and modelling researches based on .NET technologies
  • Designing and developing application architecture based around .NET technologies (.NET Framework 4.5, Multithreading, NHibernate, MS SQL Server)
  • Integration with other trading software

Senior software engineer

Bpmonline (now creatio)
07.2012 - 11.2012
  • Developing integration to third parties’ software and services
  • Developing core functionality
  • Technical support for a business development manager
  • Participating in set up London Office and in negotiations with potential clients

CTO

ExtraCode Ltd
01.2004 - 06.2012
  • Product development
  • Leading up to 12 people team
  • Architectural and modeling researches based around .NET technologies
  • Designing and developing application architecture based around .NET technologies (WinForms, WPF, ASP.NET MVC, Silverlight, WCF, NHibernate, ADO.NET, our own ORM, MS SQL Server)
  • Hands-on development key features
  • A variety of integration and interoperation tasks solving, including involving distributed transactions throughout subsystems
  • TFS setup and management
  • Continuous integration processes maintenance and support
  • Requirements specification preparation through a customer interview
  • Tasks prioritization, product backlog and sprint backlog preparations
  • Effort estimation
  • Quality control process organization (unit-testing, auto-testing, manual testing, coverage map, etc.)
  • Project progress reports and burn down reports creation
  • Tech support processes setup and management
  • New applicants’ interviews (engineers and testers)
  • Mentoring and teaching new recruits

Tech Lead

Business Service
01.2001 - 01.2004
  • Product development
  • Leading up to 3 people development team
  • Participating in developing solution application architecture
  • Working around a Borland and Microsoft development environment, specialized in Delphi, VC++ 6.0, VB 6 and SQL Server technologies
  • Hands-on developing the solution

Education

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukraine

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Ukraine

Skills

  • Distributed highly loaded systems, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Parallel programming, Async and Messaging, Microservice Architecture, Enterprise application architecture
  • Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, Alicloud
  • JVM expertise: Java, Spring, Reactor, Scala, Akka
  • NET Expertise: C#, F#, ASPNET MVC, ADONET, NHibernate, Entity Framework
  • Database expertise: MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, MongoDb
  • IDEs and Tools: Kubernetes, Docker, IntelliJ Idea, MS Visual Studio, TFS, Jira, Git, CI/CD, TDD
  • Strategic Leadership: Proven ability to develop and execute strategic plans, driving business growth and innovation
  • Team Management: Experienced in building and managing high-performing teams, fostering a culture of collaboration, and driving employee development; establishing efficient processes, recruiting and mentoring team members
  • Experience in Project/Product management PMP Certified
  • Financial Management: Skilled in budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, with a focus on driving ROI and business value
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, presentation skills

Articles And Publications

  • Entity Framework 5 vs. NHibernate 3.3 with Oracle 11g, http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/690090/Entity-Framework-vs-NHibernate-with-Oracle
  • HTTP Proxy Using Play Framework and WS API, http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1038969/HTTP-Proxy-Using-Play-Framework-and-WS-API
  • Proper Software Developer: Fundamentals and Google Driven Development, http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/1055926/Proper-Software-Developer-Fundamentals-and-Google

Accomplishments

  • Singtel Group CEO Empower Platform Award 2024.
  • European IT Outsourcing Project of the Year 2015, best outsource project architecture.

Certification

  • AWS Certified Solution Architect - Associate
  • PMP Certified Professional, PMI
  • Architecting Distributed Cloud Applications (by Jeffrey Richter), EdX
  • Functional Programming (by Eric Meijer), DelftX
  • Big Data Analysis with Scala and Spark, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Machine Learning (by Andrew Ng), Stanford Online
  • Algorithms (by Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne), Princeton University

Hobbies and Interests

  • Skydiving
  • Indoor Wind Tunnel Body Flying
  • Gym
  • Self-education
  • Travelling

Timeline

Director, Platform Engineering

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd
02.2023 - Current

Vice President, Software Engineering

Lazada Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Alibaba Group)
06.2020 - 02.2023

Senior Manager, Software Engineering

Lazada Southeast Asia Pte. Ltd. (Alibaba Group)
06.2019 - 05.2020

Technical lead and Architect

Redmart (Lazada, Alibaba Group)
09.2015 - 05.2019

Project Lead

Miratech
02.2013 - 08.2015

Staff Engineer

Self-employed
11.2012 - 01.2013

Senior software engineer

Bpmonline (now creatio)
07.2012 - 11.2012

CTO

ExtraCode Ltd
01.2004 - 06.2012

Tech Lead

Business Service
01.2001 - 01.2004

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

Bachelor of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

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