Summary
Peter Pshenichny is a senior software engineer and seasoned engineering leader based in Berlin with over two decades of technical experience and nine years in leadership roles. He founded rusisrael in 2001, scaling it into the largest Russian-Jewish social network in Israel and gaining early entrepreneurial experience in social product design and community growth. At Viber and GetYourGuide he led and built high-performing, multi-cultural teams, delivering scalable web and mobile features, improving conversion through rigorous experimentation, and introducing SSR and stateless backend patterns. He combines deep full-stack expertise (PHP, Node.js, modern front-end frameworks, AWS, CI/CD) with a talent for removing roadblocks and aligning cross-functional roadmaps. Known for recruiting and retaining motivated teams through personalized leadership, he emphasizes creating environments where engineers want to come to work and grow. An operator who still ships code, he uniquely blends founder grit with modern engineering management.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian, Hebrew