Sergey Kutsko

Sergey is a more evolved team lead compared to 2019 Sergey. Communication continues to improve while Sergey maintained his key strengths of project ownership, strong bug hunting, and aggressive delivery. I asked Sergey to make his team more like him and he did.

Sergey despite big challenges Sergey delivered. Payments Calendar and IBV were good projects. They could have been better, but Sergey as a 92 with larger team than in 2019 made sure those got done while dealing with individual projects and always ready to help in with hard investigations. Sergey should get some credit for Anatol’s growth leading to promotion. I know Sergey talked often with Anatol about technical topics related to Anatol’s projects. Some “simple” things that Sergey could have done to get a higher rating:

Communication While Sergey made strong improvement in communication. He could work on the kind of communication that describes complex problems and persuades other people to decide and act. Doing this well is a valuable skill on the technical and management track.

Solving Problems at Scale We can always count on Sergey to totally own anything we assign to him. He has demonstrated the ability to solve tough problems as an individual or in a small group. Giving and executing solutions that scale his time or his team’s time is the mark of a solid manager.

Strategic thinking through focus Sergey knows how to define and solve problems. The problem anybody in the company now faces is that there are more people, more complicated projects, and a more complex platform.

Serhii is a true professional, fast and accurate. When assigned a task, you can be sure that the task will be done. He is knowledgeable and can suggest several solutions, pointing pros and cons in each one. When working with Serhii, you can expect clean code and fast delivery. And most important, the communication with him is excellent. I highly recommend working with Serhii. Personally, I will definitely reach out to him again.

Sergey was a great addition to our Rails engineering team. He was able to ramp up quickly, jump onto our backlog, and adapt to our engineering processes seamlessly. Domain knowledge was not a barrier for him as he was able to methodically step through our code to understand the ripple effects of all of his changes. If our team finds ourself in the same situation where we need more bandwidth again, we'll be reaching back out to Sergey

Sergey did exceptional job to improve our project. He started contributing his first code in a day after we discussed the business logic. You can always be sure that Sergey delivers better product than it's requested. We launched initial version of the product for less than one month and I am personally pleased by this fact. Sergey spent many extra hours to make sure that everything works perfectly, plus much time to improve the quality of the internal implementation. It was a pleasure working with Sergey and I would not hesitate to recommend him for any position that he wanted to take on.

Sergey is a Senior Ruby developer. Works fast and his English is adequate enough to understand a clients wishes.