Gregory Agapov
Engineering Leader

Gregory Agapov

Calm under pressure. Uncompromising on results.

Alfa-Bank · Moscow

Years engineering · leading teams15+ / 5+
Teams led4Performance Review, Mentoring, Social Commerce, Donations
Direct reports at VK8backend, frontend, iOS, Android, QA
Teams in one plan3+3 backend engineers from a partner team
Engineers I mentored3two of them in the mentoring program
Mentoring platform1stat T-Bank; MVP on schedule
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Engineering Leader

Gregory Agapov

Calm under pressure. Uncompromising on results.

15+ years in engineering, 5+ leading teams of 6–8. Led VK’s 8-person Donations team and delivered VK Donut in MAX on time. At Alfa-Bank from December 2026, Government Interaction Automation Department.

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15+years engineering
5+years leading
8direct reports at VK
3teams in one plan
+103%Donations turnover
60KPerformance Review users
15+ / 5+Years engineering · leading teams
4Teams led
8Direct reports at VK
3Teams in one plan
3Engineers I mentored
1stMentoring platform
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15+ years in engineering, 5+ leading teams of 6–8. Led VK’s 8-person Donations team and delivered VK Donut in MAX on time. At Alfa-Bank from December 2026, Government Interaction Automation Department.

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Technical specifications

Donations in VK profiles, Apr–May 2026 · VK Social Commerce, 2025
+103 %Donations turnover, ~235K → ~478K RUB
+179 %donations count, 430 → 1,200
30 → 52 %connection-to-monetization
20K → 1M+goods in Communities, 3 teams

Technical specifications · full

VK, 2025–2026
+103 %Donations turnover, ~235K → ~478K RUB
+179 %donations count, 430 → 1,200
+117 %monetizing profiles, 240 → 521
30 → 52 %connection-to-monetization
20K → 1M+goods limit in Communities
~3 Mproducts from 40 Ozon sellers, ~1M offers
35 → 64 %VKUI coverage on iOS; Android — 84%
+3,276creators with Donations, 3 weeks after rebrand

VK Donut in MAX

First 4 weeks after launch on 1 October 2026
8,500authors connected
>2,000authors earned money
2.7M RUBdonations turnover
On timeSeparate Go service for MAX and bot; all scenarios load-tested

How I run a team

Backlog, planning and process are mine in every Team Lead role
Backlogwith the product manager or alone; fully mine in Social Commerce
Quarter · sprint · releaseplanning levels; OKR at T-Bank
Scrum → ScrumbanScrum at T-Bank, Scrumban at VK
People growthmentored 3 engineers; pilot mentees moved into full-time roles

Under the hood

Technical depth, not just coordination
RPS · CPU · RAMthe metrics I used to write Donations microservice optimization code myself at VK
DDDmentoring platform architecture — fast product iterations
Migrationsmonolith → microservices; feed and recommendations moved before the Hadoop shutdown
3 platformsiOS, Android and web in one UI layer: VKUI and SPA

Experience

Full details — Sport mode
From 12.2026
Alfa-Bank

Government Interaction Automation Department

01.2026 — 11.2026
VK
Team Lead, Donations product team

Led 8 engineers. Rebrand and VK profiles launch within a quarter; turnover +103% in two months. Delivered VK Donut in MAX on time: 8,500 authors joined and 2.7M RUB turnover in four weeks.

04.2025 — 12.2025
VK
Team Lead, Social Commerce Platform

Goods limit in Communities: 20K → millions across 3 teams. Recommendation system migrated before the Hadoop shutdown.

04.2021 — 03.2025
T-Bank (Tinkoff)
Team Lead: Performance Review, Mentoring

Reset of a platform serving 60K employees; the company's first mentoring platform MVP shipped on schedule.

2010 — 2021
T-Bank, Neotech, CINIMEX, AISA
Middle → Senior Developer

.NET and Angular; GE Smallworld GIS for MTS and MGTS; automation for Russian Railways.

From 12.2026
Alfa-Bank

Government Interaction Automation Department

01.2026 — 11.2026
Team Lead, Donations
VK · Communities business unit
  • 8 direct reports: 3 backend, 2 frontend, iOS, Android, QA
  • Backlog, quarterly, sprint and release planning under Scrumban
  • Designed the architecture and wrote optimization code driven by RPS, CPU and memory
  • Rebrand and launch of Donations in VK profiles within one quarter
  • Aligned product backend with the migration team: monolith → microservices
  • Apr–May 2026: turnover +103%, donations +179%, monetizing profiles +117%
  • Led the team launch of VK Donut in MAX on 1 Oct 2026 within the agreed deadline: a separate Go service for MAX integration and bot operation; all scenarios load-tested
  • First four weeks in MAX: 8,500 authors connected, more than 2,000 earned money, 2.7M RUB donations turnover
04.2025 — 12.2025
Team Lead, Social Commerce
VK · platform team
  • 8 direct reports; goods-scaling program across 3 teams
  • Owned the backlog alone, no product manager; quarterly, sprint and release planning under Scrumban
  • Load testing and rollout: limit 20K → millions
  • 40-seller Ozon integration: ~3M products, ~1M offers
  • Recommendation migration by the Hadoop shutdown; incident handled without losing a significant share of traffic
12.2022 — 03.2025
Team Lead, Mentoring
T-Bank
  • Cross-functional team of 6: backend, frontend, QA, design, analytics
  • DDD architecture; backlog with the product manager, OKR and releases under Scrum
  • MVP of the company's first mentoring platform — on schedule
  • Pilot staffed entirely by program participants who later moved into full-time roles
04.2021 — 12.2022
Team Lead, Performance Review
T-Bank
  • Platform for 60K employees, two high-load windows a year; one-year stabilization plan aligned with the business
  • Built and grew a 7-person team
  • Architecture and technical decisions; backlog, OKR and releases under Scrum
04.2019 — 04.2021
Middle → Senior Developer
T-Bank
  • Designed and launched the org-structure service from scratch: .NET, Angular, Postgres, microservices
  • Performance Review, in-house task tracker and feedback systems
12.2013 — 03.2019
Senior Developer, GIS
Neotech (Paravan 2000)
  • GE Smallworld GIS for MTS, MGTS and TAT Telecom
  • Reverse engineered client systems without source-code access
  • GE Smallworld GIS Certified Developer
11.2010 — 01.2013
Middle Developer
CINIMEX · AISA IT-Service
  • Terminals and digital forms for Russian Railways machinists; Java EE, IBM Db2
  • IBM WebSphere, IBM Message Broker, ESQL
Equipment

Backlog · planning · releases — Scrum / Scrumban
Architecture and RPS / CPU / RAM optimization
PHP · Go · React · Postgres — VK
.NET · C# · Angular · Kubernetes — T-Bank
Microservices · DDD · Kafka · RabbitMQ

Side project
Dashboard & Statusline for Claude Code

Open-source VS Code extension, ~20,000 lines with zero runtime dependencies.

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Equipment

Leadership

Team leadership, engineer growth, mentoring, stakeholder management, roadmap planning

Architecture

Monolith decomposition, microservices, DDD, CQRS, API design

Stack VK · T-Bank

PHP, Go, React, Postgres · .NET, C#, Angular, TypeScript, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD

Messaging

Kafka, RabbitMQ

Side project · since 08.2026
Dashboard & Statusline for Claude Code

Open-source VS Code extension (MIT, non-commercial): a 23-tab dashboard over every transcript on the machine — spend, subagents, workflow runs, usage limits — and a status bar built from a template with 45 placeholders. ~20,000 lines of JavaScript in 33 modules, zero runtime dependencies, no telemetry.

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Education and more

Programming Technician (secondary vocational), International College of Business and Design at MTUCI, 2006–2010

General Electric Smallworld GIS Certified Developer

Russian — native · English — B2