Gleb Goncharov

Architecture & Platforms

• Led the Yandex.Cloud → Cloud.ru migration: around 600 participants, 180+ information systems, 60+ products — on time, without incidents. The project was recognized with an honorary certificate signed by German Gref.
• Raised enterprise architecture maturity: compliance with corporate standards grew from 70% to 93%.
• Reengineered the shopping cart: TCO down 10x, latency down 4x to 200 ms, capacity up from 10 to 100 rps.

Technology Leadership & IT Management

• Introduced FinOps practices and cut IT TCO by 35% over 2025–2026.
• Prepared the company for high season: performance up 2.2x within half a year at 99.9% availability.
• Reorganized intangible-asset capitalization: automated time tracking without affecting development Lead Time.

Agent-based Systems & AI Platforms

• Automated ADR creation and review with LLM agents (LLMOps): review time cut from a week to 24 hours.

Kuper — Head of Solution Architecture / CTO functions

Sep 2025 — present

• I lead a team of 6 solution architects and functionally guide 30+ architects across product teams.
• I own enterprise architecture: 180+ information systems, 1,000+ components, 60+ business products — both application and infrastructure layers.
• I designed the company’s new IT landscape in Cloud.ru: business, application, and technology architecture. I described the landscape in DocHub (ArchTool) and inventoried the systems in a CMDB.
• I raised architecture and reliability maturity by two levels and increased corporate standards compliance from 70% to 93%.
• I standardized ADRs and automated their creation and review with LLM agents (LLMOps): review time dropped from a week to 24 hours.
• I reorganized the architecture committee and community, and updated the technology radar.
• I created the technical debt and deviation management process from scratch.
• I co-authored the three-year IT strategy with the CTO, introduced FinOps practices, and cut IT TCO by 35% in 2025–2026.
• I rebuilt intangible-asset capitalization: automated time tracking without hurting development lead time.
• I run the architecture processes: Enterprise Architecture, Architecture Vision, ADR/RFC, technical debt and deviations.
• I help the CTO run IT: IT management methodology, stakeholder engagement, IT project management, corporate reporting.
• I negotiate with customers, lawyers, and finance teams.
• I run gap analyses, build roadmaps, and organize the work of IT teams.

Kuper — Cloud migration program lead: Yandex.Cloud → Cloud.ru

Mar 2025 — Mar 2026

• I led the cloud migration program: organized the work of ~600 participants.
• I migrated 180+ information systems and 60+ business products.
• I delivered on time: 100% of systems migrated by the end of March 2026, without incidents.
• Received an honorary certificate signed by German Gref (order No. 76078/K dated 07.11.2025): “for a highly professional approach to solving complex issues and the fast, successful delivery of assigned tasks”.

Kuper — Unit Lead — platform and product teams

2023–2025

• I prepared the company for the peak season: 2.2× performance in six months at 99.9% availability. A cross-domain project with 200 participants.
• I ran the technical side of the SberMarket → Kuper rebrand: the platform changed its name overnight, without downtime.
• I re-engineered the cart: 10× lower TCO, 4× lower latency down to 200 ms, capacity up from 10 to 100 rps.
• I built load testing as a methodology: 6× more tests covering 92% of user traffic.
• I shipped Code Push for iOS/Android (platform engineering) — the mobile release cycle dropped to a couple of hours.

Kuper — Senior DevOps Engineer / SRE Lead, Customer domain

2022–2023

• I joined as a senior DevOps engineer; within six months I led the SRE group for the Customer domain — reliability of the customer journey in the mobile and web apps.
• I owned reliability and performance of the storefront: order lifecycle, payments, fiscalization — over half of the store’s traffic, 45+ teams.
• I accelerated the SDLC: 90% faster builds, 50% faster testing, 2× release frequency with the same change-failure rate.
• I introduced SLO/SLA from scratch for 100% of critical services, canary releases with automatic rollback, and DORA monitoring.
• I migrated the storefront to a PaaS without downtime (platform engineering).

FunBox — Infrastructure Engineer → Team Lead

2015–2022

• I launched 10+ infrastructure projects, from architecture design to production handover.
• I built geo-redundant Kafka (over 1 Gbps of traffic) and ClickHouse clusters. Centralized log collection made incident search 100× faster.
• I launched a unified Grafana metrics visualization system and a release artifact repository, consolidating shared project dependencies.
• I deployed corporate bare-metal Kubernetes with infrastructure as code (platform engineering, IaC), and introduced VictoriaMetrics metrics and Vector/Loki log pipelines (observability).
• I deployed an office access control and video surveillance system, eliminating security incidents.
• I built a backup monitoring exporter, speeding up reaction to backup failures.
• I grew DevRel: organized a meetup venue and helped build the employer brand.

Simtech Group / Simtech Development — System administrator, hosting platform lead

2013–2017

• I administered the server fleet for commercial web projects, then founded and led an e-commerce hosting platform.

Architecture & Platforms

Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, System Design, service-oriented architecture (SoA), microservices architecture (MSA), modular monolith architecture, event-driven architecture, API-first, C4 Model, ADR, corporate standards management, technology radar, CMDB, DocHub (ArchTool) — IT landscape description, platform engineering, Kubernetes, clouds (Cloud.ru, Yandex.Cloud), IaaS, IaC.

Technology Leadership & IT Management

IT strategy, IT finance (intangible assets), FinOps, TCO management, project portfolio, upstream/downstream Kanban (Discovery & Delivery), requirements management, knowledge management, corporate reporting, site reliability engineering (SLO/SLA, DORA), load testing, capacity management.

Agent-based Systems & AI Platforms

Embedding LLM agents into engineering processes: automated ADR creation and review (review time cut from a week to 24 hours). AI-PDLC, LLMOps, Loop Engineering, Human-in/on/out-of-the-Loop, LLM-as-a-judge, guardrails, policy enforcement. Tools: MCP, harness, skills, plugins, Claude Code, OpenCode.