Vladimir Savenkov
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorVladimir Savenkov is a pragmatic engineering leader with 14 years of experience building and scaling e-commerce platforms and internal engineering capabilities from Berlin. As Director of Engineering at home24, he led the creation of a Business Experience department, coordinated a year‑long Marketplace transformation involving 150+ engineers, and drove cost-saving and supplier management initiatives while remaining hands-on with AWS, Go and TypeScript development. He has a strong track record in people leadership—hiring, mentoring, and designing an engineering career ladder—and in operationalizing best practices like incident management, CI/CD, and platform guilds. Vladimir pairs deep technical craftsmanship (monolith-to-microservices, ELK, Ansible/Packer) with cross-functional program delivery across commercial and product domains. He’s known for pragmatic, stakeholder-focused solutions that balance business impact with engineering sustainability, and for keeping a developer’s mindset despite senior leadership responsibilities.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (30)
markdown9
rest9
php9
obsidian9
rest-api9
php-library9
database8
symfony-bundle8
symfony8
persistence8
google-cloud-messaging8
audit8
sonata8
restful-api8
doctrine7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
iVariable/Backbone.actAs.Paginatable
May 2012 - Oct 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 5 months
iVariable/Backbone.actAs.Mementoable
Nov 2011 - Nov 2012
Contributions:21 commits in 11 months
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