Andrew Sumin
Director Of Business Unit at VK
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrew Sumin is a seasoned technology leader with 15+ years’ experience building and scaling large web products, currently serving as Director of a business unit at VK after senior engineering and CTO roles at Mail.ru Group. He combines hands-on frontend expertise (JavaScript, v8, Node.js, XSLT) with operational leadership—reducing release cycles from months to days, migrating major codebases from Perl to Go, and automating processes for 130+ engineers. Known for creating and growing cross-functional teams, he has a strong track record in release and product management, performance optimization, and modernizing monitoring systems. A frequent conference speaker and organizer across Highload++, RIT and Mail.ru events, he blends public technical advocacy with deep implementation experience. Notably, he led frontend overhauls that improved portal speed and adopted a custom, dependency-loading JS framework approach earlier in his career.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Magister, Radio engineering, Magister, Radio engineering at TSURE
Github Skills (4)
tornado9
python8
javascript8
nodejs2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nekanek/frontik-without-testing
Sep 2010 - Jan 2011
Contributions:44 commits in 4 months
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