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Code of Leadership 23 - Interview with Andrew Marchenko (Category Architecture)

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In this episode A cool guest came to me, Andrei Marchenko, my former colleague, who did a lot of good for the Tinkoff.ru web. Andrey is a high grade software engineer with extensive experience in developing platform solutions for internal developers. For many years, he worked to make life easier for developers, and products of better quality in different positions from developer to manager. 16+ engineers. Recently, he moved into product development at one of the FAANG companies as an engineer. Now he is interested in studying how everything works inside, finding differences from Russian IT, and also looking for a way for rapid growth and promotions within the company.

We talked about the following topics.

  • The beginning of Andrew's career in general
  • How Andrey ended up in Tinkoff. What Andrew's height looked like in T. The importance of interacting with people
  • Transition to platform team About Statist and Product Analytics
  • Infrastructure projects of Andrei
  • Communication and persuasion
  • High-level engineers
  • Experience working in Tinkoff and moving abroad Booking and database research Blogging and improving English Transition to FAANG Company and Current Projects Problems of growth of the American company Plans for the future and how you came to want to move Loss of influence in the new company (karma and trust) Solving complex problems as a key to growth Explore the design of large and high-load FAANG systems from the inside Andrey’s personal experience and advice on how to become as cool Andrey’s problems with learning due to dyslexia and overcoming them
  • The importance of work and perseverance

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#Architecure #Software #SystemDesign #Management #Staff #Engineering #PlatformEngineering