About the Author

Anton Pleshivtsev is engineering leader, engineer, manager, speaker, entrepreneur, barista, Q grader, dad, caviste and a humble person

About Anton

Completed a master’s-level program in Automated Systems of Information Processing and Control, at the Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University.

Currently leading the engineering team at Bravado, the largest professional network for sales people.
Previously was responsible for leading frontend development at Aviasales — the leading travel metasearch company in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Contact

antonbuttrue [at] gmail

Anton's experience

Bravado (bravado.co) - The World's Largest Sales Network
2017-present
VP Engineering
Managing 3 engineering pods responsible for business features, social platform and infrastructure. Working with Engineering Managers on platform architecture and technical strategy. Working with executive team on hiring and growth strategy. Built the first version of Bravado by myself and hired the whole engineering team.

Touristwear (touristwear.ru)
2013-2017
Co-founder & Fractional CTO
Touristwear is an e-commerce solution aggregating hundreds of sport and tourist goods in one place.

Krownguards
2015-2018
Co-founder & Fractional CTO
Co-founded and consulted development of online multiplayer game Krownguards page on web archive
source code

Virool
2015-2017
Sr. Developer
Led development of company’s proprietary technology consisting of codec and a video player to support video autoplay on mobile devices.

Cropme
2012-2019
Founder and developer
Cropme is an easy cross-platform screenshot taking solution with online editor. Currently open sourced:
cropme-server
cropme-linux

Aviasales (aviasales.com)
2012-2015
Sr. Developer
Led development of company’s main product — ticket search application UI. Designed architecture, selected a tech stack, built POCs and implemented the final solution . Was a member of core team developing ticket search engine.

Anton's talks

Burning Lead, 2020
Saint Petersburg, Russia
My talk about Bravado’s engineering culture called
Why some teams succeed and others fall apart

HTML5 devconf, 2015
San Francisco, USA
Talk about Virool’s mobile video ecosystem and html5-based video codec

Codefest, 2015
Novosibirsk, Russia
Talk about popular frontend frameworks