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Alexander Zheka

Platform Owner | Solution Architect

€600/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Alexander

I help companies design, build, and scale reliable software platforms — from architecture to production. With experience spanning hands-on engineering, technical leadership, and platform ownership, I bring a rare mix of strategic thinking and practical delivery across JVM back-ends, cloud platforms, and modern web applications.

Clients work with me when they need to speed up delivery, reduce infrastructure costs, improve reliability, or align engineering teams around clear technical goals. Whether leading distributed teams, optimizing cloud environments, or implementing high-scale systems, I focus on pragmatic solutions that deliver measurable business impact — not just clean code.
  • German

    Fluent

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • MediaMarktSaturn
    Platform Owner
    DIGITAL AND IT
    May 2025 - Today (1 year and 1 month)
    Berlin, Germany
    Led a 50+ engineer platform organization, aligning cross-country product and business stakeholders while increasing team velocity, motivation, and cross-domain collaboration. Reduced platform build/run costs through vendor optimization, defined shared platform goals and OKRs/KPIs, and established target engineering profiles to scale delivery.
    Team management DevOps Cost Reduction Google cloud IT Architecture
  • MediaMarkt Deutschland
    Engineering Manager
    E-COMMERCE
    November 2024 - May 2025 (6 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Engineering Manager for a cross-functional team, driving individual growth through structured 1:1s, development planning, and strategic hiring to improve team consistency and performance. Operated as a player-coach, delivering hands-on improvements to shipping speed, infrastructure efficiency, and cloud cost optimization through GitHub pipeline scaling, JVM native image adoption, and GCP metrics/logs migration towards custom solution.
    Team management Google cloud Java IT Architecture DevOps
  • MediaMarkt
    Competency Lead
    RETAIL (LARGE RETAILERS)
    July 2023 - November 2024 (1 year and 4 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Coordinated an 8-engineer delivery team in a high-scale order management and fulfillment domain, acting as the bridge between product and engineering while leading solution architecture and technical delivery. Contributed hands on using Kotlin and TypeScript in containerized GCP environments, improving reliability and SLA adherence through observability, alerting, and site reliability practices.
    DevOps Team management Kotlin Typescript Google cloud

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Education

  • Bachelor's degree
    Kharkiv National University of Radioelectronics
    2012
    Bachelor's degree
  • Junior Specialist
    National Aviation University
    2010
    Junior Specialist

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