Andrew 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.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Magister Radio engineering, Magister Radio engineering at TSURE
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