Denis Yurkin

Current

• Deputy CTO at Yandex

Past

• Head Of Software Development at AdWatch
• Customer-Side Project Manager at AdWatch
• System Analyst & Architect at AdWatch

• Senior System Analyst at Actis Systems
• System Analyst at Actis Systems
• Application Development Analyst at Independent Media
• Application Developer at Scala Business Solutions NV
• Programmer at Atlant Inform
• Technician, IS dept. at Altai State University
• Technical Support (free-lance) at Altai StroyGas Trust

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Education

• Moskovskij Gosudarstvennyj Universitet im. M.V. Lomonosova
• Secondary School with Advanced Study of English, #22

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Industry

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Denis Yurkin’s Summary

Expert in development processes and organization, with a key focus on bringing agile practices to organizations driven by business value.

Denis Yurkin’s Specialties:

Extreme Programming, Agile Methods, organizational design, outsource, change management, knowledge management

Denis Yurkin’s Experience

• Deputy CTO

  Yandex

  (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2003 — Present (6 years 8 months)

• Head Of Software Development

  AdWatch

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2001 — April 2003 (1 year 11 months)

  Set up software development processes; overall coordination of development team. Strategized technology development; planned releases.
  
  Requirements definition, scope management; high-level architecture, supervision of system design.
  
  Achievements: timely delivery in line with ever-changing priorities and requirements; new features released bi weekly; flexible architecture through continuous refactoring; interchangeability of developers in mission-critical segments of the system

• Customer-Side Project Manager

  AdWatch

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 2001 — May 2001 (5 months)

  Customer-side overall supervision of development project performed by external supplier.
  Management of scope, changing requirements and acceptance tests.

• System Analyst & Architect

  AdWatch

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2000 — December 2000 (5 months)

  Strategizing technology development; release planning; high-level architecture; requirements definition and specification for external supplier; scope management.

• Senior System Analyst

  Actis Systems

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  February 2000 — July 2000 (6 months)

  Managed system analysis projects; led and coached project teams; performing requirement analysis, best-practice research, system architecture. Supervised the system analysis function in the company (5 function members); evaluated tools and methodologies; developed early guidelines. Practiced and popularized Rational Unified Process.
  
  Projects: full-service horizontal community portal (pole.ru); virtual mall with aggregate product catalog, services-rich online rugs store, online music store, online corporate computing solutions store.

• System Analyst

  Actis Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)

  Translated customer needs into specifications for development teams: gathered and managed requirements, researched best practices; developed high-level architectures, supervised system design.
  Provided sales support preparing proposals; planned development releases.

• Application Development Analyst

  Independent Media

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

  November 1998 — May 1999 (7 months)

  Integrated several business applications (display&classifieds advertising; distribution); reorganized relevant business processes.

• Application Developer

  Scala Business Solutions NV

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

  August 1997 — February 1998 (7 months)

  Implemented new country-specific features basing on business-level requirements. Worked on bug-fixing of system’s new version. Basing on code analysis, commented system warnings and language-dependent interface elements for subsequent translation to other languages

• Programmer

  Atlant Inform

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 1994 — April 1995 (7 months)

  Programmed database entry interfaces and user reports (Warehouse Recording, Enterprise Planning systems).

• Technician, IS dept.

  Altai State University

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Higher Education industry)

  June 1990 — January 1994 (3 years 8 months)

  In-house and custom programming. Textbooks written and published for students of first two years of study.

• Technical Support (free-lance)

  Altai StroyGas Trust

  (Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Oil & Energy industry)

  August 1991 — May 1993 (1 year 10 months)

  Software installation, system maintenance and user support, instruction and consulting.

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