Career

Chief Information Officer — V-TER Solutions

January 2026 – present · Stuttgart

V-TER Solutions builds a logistics platform: warehouse management, shipping orchestration, connectivity to 200+ carriers, customs classification, linehaul and returns. The team is distributed across several countries.

Architect Manager — Xmllogistics

August 2022 – December 2025 · Stuttgart

Details of this role are under NDA.

IT Lead — VRG SYS GmbH (VRG-Gruppe)

April 2019 – July 2022 · Stuttgart region

VRG builds software for HR, the social economy and communication with customers, suppliers and employees.

• Owned the IT strategy end to end: migration from legacy systems, infrastructure relocation, new product launches and client onboarding.
• Redesigned the infrastructure right after joining, later moved it to a sister company’s data centre, and led IT integration after the company’s acquisition.
• Prepared the company for ISO 27001 together with the CEO: documentation, processes and staff training. Certified in 2021.
• Built and mentored the team — permanent, remote and outstaff — with full hiring responsibility, and delivered on all client commitments inherited from before.
• Owned architecture and design decisions and the development of the next-generation product from concept to delivery.

internetstores GmbH

April 2015 – February 2019 · Esslingen / Stuttgart

European online retailer of bikes and outdoor gear (fahrrad.de, Bikester, CAMPZ, addnature and others). The in-house back office handled more than a million SKUs and over 50 sales channels.

Head of ERP Development (February 2018 – February 2019, team of 15)

• Took over the department in a difficult period and stabilised it.
• Owned the in-house back office: ERP, PIM, CRM, price engine, shop, order and shipping management.
• Responsible for architecture decisions, the team budget, hiring and onboarding.
• Led performance and security projects, including GDPR readiness.

Team Lead ERP Development (August 2016 – February 2018, team of 5)

• Designed a new generation of the back office on a service-oriented architecture and led the migration away from the monolith.
• Introduced continuous integration (Bamboo), unit and functional testing.

Senior Software Engineer (April 2015 – August 2016)

• Rewrote product content filtering in Go for 1M+ SKUs and 50+ channels: from 28 hours to 8 minutes per channel.
• Rebuilt product export: from 4 hours to 5 minutes per channel.
• Introduced an event-driven model for internal flows, i18n across the back office, Kanban and Git flow.

Opera Software — Opera Mobile Store

September 2011 – April 2015 · Odesa, Ukraine

A mobile app store with more than 36 million daily unique visitors.

Engineering Manager / Project Manager (May 2012 – April 2015)

• Responsible for uptime, infrastructure (50+ servers managed with CFEngine, internal CDN, monitoring) and release management.
• Led the white-label app store project with Yandex and the migration of Nokia OVI Store users to Opera Mobile Store.

Senior PHP Developer (September 2011 – May 2012)

• Built device and language detection, ad-supported distribution, the pay-per-download programme and sales analytics.
• Migrated the platform to nginx, reworked developer and user authorisation, introduced unit testing.

“Artem showed himself as a great project manager in Opera Mobile Store team. […] During the 2 years, we were able to support user growth from 18M to 100M users monthly. Artem also did great management of partner projects, launching a white label appstore for our key partner in Eastern Europe.” — Victor Shaburov (LinkedIn)

Odessa National Polytechnic University

September 2012 – January 2015 · part-time

Senior lecturer: web design, web development, theory of algorithms, introduction to databases. Supervised eight master’s students.

Earlier

2006 – 2011: Infomir (IPTV set-top box interfaces), Netpeak (SEO tooling), an education portal, and my own web studio.

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science, Odessa National Polytechnic University, 2010.

Certifications

• IBM Microservices Specialization, Coursera, 2019
• Microservices Fundamentals, Coursera, 2019
• MongoDB, Coursera, 2019

Languages

English (professional), Ukrainian and Russian (native), German (elementary).

Profiles

LinkedIn · Xing · GitHub · Stack Overflow

A full CV is available on request.