Summary
Elshad Shirinov is a pragmatic Head of Engineering and software architect with 17 years of cross-domain experience building reliable web and mobile products, scalable server backends, and operational tools for startups, scale-ups and enterprises. He has driven measurable improvements—e.g., boosting stability and fault tolerance by 300%—while serving more than 12 million B2B/B2C users across E‑Commerce, FinTech, MedTech, TravelTech and AdTech. Comfortable hands‑on from frontend to backend, he favors user-centric, domain‑driven designs and mathematically elegant architectures that translate quickly into business outcomes. A frequent consultant and interim leader, he repeatedly delivers rapid rewrites, major refactors and platform rollouts under tight deadlines (including rebuilding legacy desktop apps into TypeScript/React/Electron). Based in Berlin, he now focuses on scaling engineering orgs and exploring AI agents to automate internal operations and product interactions. Clients praise his efficiency, deep domain understanding and ability to turn complex requirements into flexible, production-ready systems.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (did not finish), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD (did not finish) at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
English, German, Russian, Ukrainian, French