Product Management Senior Director

Aleksei Tolompoiko

Atlanta, GA *******@*****.*** 770-***-**** LinkedIn Profile

I am a passionate technology and product management leader who thrives on bridging technical execution with strategic business goals. I am always ready to dive into implementation details while maintaining a holistic perspective on organizational objectives. With a track record of building and leading high-performing distributed engineering teams, I am driven by collaboration, innovation, and delivering impactful, scalable solutions.

Senior Director of Software Engineering

CBORD (Atlanta, GA) 04/2021 – 02/2025

Led distributed Commerce and Platform development teams with a hands-on approach on architecture, technology selection, integrations, code reviews, and Agile-driven task prioritization.

Managed scope and delivery timelines while building modern, scalable .NET (C#) SaaS applications on the AWS platform (EC2, ECS, S3, Cognito, DynamoDB, RDS, Lambda, SNS, SQS, CloudWatch for logs, Redshift and QuickSight for Analytics, CodeBuild and CodePipeline for CI/CD and others).

Worked closely with the DevOps team to optimize multi-region deployments, enhance Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices (Terraform), logging (Datadog) and streamline cross-team collaboration.

Ensured continuous alignment of resources with strategic objectives, leading hiring efforts, conducting performance evaluations, facilitating training programs, and making key personnel decisions.

Collaborated with product, sales, and executive leadership to define product vision, shape the roadmap, and align strategy with business objectives.

Director of Software Engineering

Hudson MX (Atlanta, GA) 05/2020 – 04/2021

Led a distributed development team across the U.S. and Europe in designing and implementing an innovative AdTech product line, enabling leading advertising agencies to streamline and automate the planning and buying process across all media types.

Defined architecture, development methodologies, and technology choices, collaborating daily with top executives in engineering and product management to drive strategic technical decisions.

Senior Director of Software Development

Cognia (Alpharetta, GA) 06/2014 – 03/2020

Led a team of full-time and contract software engineers and DBAs in developing a next-generation suite of online and mobile products, serving 20 million students and teachers across the U.S. and internationally for the market leader in school improvement and large-scale student assessment.

Took a highly hands-on approach in coding, defining architecture, selecting technologies, establishing Agile development methodology, setting coding standards, and shaping the product roadmap.

Worked in close collaboration with CTO, CEO and Product Management on key development initiatives, budgeting, staffing and strategic product development decisions.

Designed and developed a scalable, microservices-based software platform leveraging modern technologies, including Angular for the front end (deployed on AWS CloudFront), Java Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Elasticsearch, and RabbitMQ to support high concurrency and load. Integrated New Relic monitoring to ensure observability, performance and reliability.

Data Architect

RingCentral (San Mateo, CA) 05/2013 – 05/2014

Joined the company pre-IPO, contributing to innovative new development initiatives, working in R&D team on next-generation VOIP-based cloud communications platform.

Evaluated, prototyped, and validated various technologies and solutions for subsequent integration into the regular product development cycle, collaborating closely with other development teams.

Director of Data Engineering

Limelight Networks (Mountain View, CA) 04/2011 – 05/2013

Collaborated closely with product and executive management to address complex data challenges.

Led hands-on software development and architecture, designing and implementing HDFS data ingest pipelines and MapReduce Hadoop jobs to process and unlock actionable insights from large-scale data.

Developed multi-TB video streaming analytics MapReduce job chains for the London 2012 Olympics, enabling measurement of key metrics, including unique views, duration, and engagement percentiles.

Recruited, built, and managed a geographically distributed team of software engineers and DBAs across California, Arizona, and Ukraine, overseeing multi-terabyte-per-day data processing workflows.

Lead Data Engineer

Limelight Networks (Mountain View, CA) 11/2010 – 04/2011

Following EyeWonder acquisition, relocated to the Mountain View, CA office of LLNW to pursue expertise in distributed data processing and highly scalable systems engineering.

Designed, developed, and deployed an innovative real-time streaming SQL-like system for processing online queries on multi-terabyte datasets collected from thousands of edge servers (EdgeQuery).

Installed, configured, and actively managed an 800TB Cloudera Hadoop (CDH3) cluster, implementing large-scale log data ingestion and processing using MapReduce, with daily data volume in terabytes.

Director of Product Development

EyeWonder (Atlanta, GA) 06/2006 – 11/2010

Developed and launched critical online advertising products that shaped the company’s direction, serving over 400 customers and supporting daily operations for more than 200 EyeWonder employees.

Built and led a high-performing software engineering team, growing from an initial team of three to over 20 by the time of acquisition, while performing daily hands-on development of key applications.

Collaborated with the CEO and COO on product strategy, driving innovation, retaining key talent, and leading the development team through to the successful acquisition by Limelight Networks in 2010.

Senior Software Engineer

EyeWonder (Atlanta, GA) 02/2001 – 06/2006

Started as an engineer working on one part of an existing product and, within months, advanced to a senior engineering role, contributing to the development of multiple critical products and systems.

Designed and implemented an advanced reporting and analytics application capturing 30+ key metrics for advertisements, powering billions of ad impressions and delivering granular data insights.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Computer Science (Computing Systems, OMSCS)

Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019 – Present (In Progress)

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Management Information Systems

Georgia State University, 2003 – 2005 (Top 5% of class, Beta Gamma Sigma)

Bachelor of Arts, International Business

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia, 1993 – 1997 (Cum Laude)

MISCELLANEOUS

Three patents granted in AdTech space (EyeWonder):

01/26/2012: DYNAMIC INTERACTION MAPPING FOR ONLINE ADVERTISING (US 13/101,914)

01/19/2012: DYNAMIC CREATIVE CREATION AND DELIVERY (US 13/165,586)

01/01/2009: SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING, REVIEWING, EDITING, AND TRANSFERRING AN ADVERTISING UNIT IN A SINGLE ENVIRONMENT (US 12/209,715)

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