Alexander Kolesnikov
HR Chief Technology Officer at X5 Tech
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolAlexander Kolesnikov is an experienced technology leader and HR Chief Technology Officer with over 14 years in industry and a 17-year development pedigree that evolved into seven years of senior management across product, program and people leadership. He has led large engineering organizations (100+ engineers), driven major product transformations at Yandex and Kaspersky—delivering multi‑million dollar impact, tenfold performance improvements in key systems and significant time‑to‑market reductions. A PhD and certified practitioner (PMP, RTE, KMP, PSM, SAFe), he blends rigorous academic/system‑analysis thinking with hands‑on development roots dating back to embedded and analytical control systems for electron microscopes. He excels at aligning engineering execution with business strategy, reengineering processes, and rescuing complex projects under tight deadlines. As a longtime lecturer at HSE, he uniquely combines practitioner leadership with pedagogy, building internal training programs that scaled to hundreds of technical leaders. Quietly pragmatic, he favors automation and measurable process changes to turn engineering pain points into repeatable delivery advantages.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
specialist, Project Management, 5 of 5, specialist, Project Management, 5 of 5 at Higher School of EconomicsMoscow State Technological University "Stankin"
English
Github Skills (7)
log-viewer2
parsing2
logging1
large-files1
viewer1
nemerle1
data-analysis1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
sasha237/EDIReader
Aug 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:13 commits in 13 days
sasha237/VideoAnalyser
May 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:11 commits in 4 months
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