I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!

Alexey Poimtsev

Quote from Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2:

Peter Quill : You look like Mary Poppins.
Yondu : Is he cool?
Peter Quill : Hell yeah, he’s cool.
Yondu : I’m Mary Poppins, y’all!

A passionate geek, as well as a loving father and husband, I started this blog to share my experience in engineering, product management, and business.

With years of hands-on coding, leading teams, and building products from the ground up, I’ve learned both the technical and strategic sides of software development. Here, I share insights, lessons learned, and practical advice for developers, tech leaders, and founders navigating the ever-changing world of technology. I hope you find it insightful and valuable!

#Experience

#Deeplay LLC 2025 – 2025

Head of the Operational Software Department

  • Led a 40-person cross-functional team, aligning development, analytics, and operations
  • Rebuilt processes around a core company product, accelerating feature delivery and improving team transparency
  • Introduced customer-centric principles: business and engineering worked as one unit with a strong focus on user value
  • Raised engineering culture: the team gained a clear understanding of business goals, established systematic knowledge sharing, drove initiatives proactively, and took ownership of results

#Asgard Technology LLC (former Progress Engine) 2012 – present

Founder, CEO

  • Developed and launched over 70 products for fintech, streaming and VOD, business processes automation
  • Acted as sales and business developer
  • Estimated, performed feasibility analysis and forecast risks and planned the product delivery
  • Performed requirement analysis, system architect development
  • Contributed to each product delivery phase - analysis, development, test, ops)
  • Managed and led developer team
  • Performed HR & business operations

Awards:

  • Gold award for best mobile application (2021, Tagline, biggest runet digital award)
  • Bronze award for best mobile application (2021, Tagline, biggest runet digital award)

#VEON Ltd. (formerly VimpelCom Ltd.) – 2002 - 2012

Head of CIS Web development

  • Managed and led developer teams in 6 CIS countries
  • Acted as a contact point between technical team, test team, functional team
  • Delivered new features

System Architect

  • Implemented integrated technology-based solutions and identified integration opportunities for a package of technical platforms
  • Communicated with national and international vendors
  • Built and determined technical roadmap & documentation
  • Contributed in delivery and testing process
  • Set and managed project groups

Senior System Administrator

24/7 administration and incident management of mobile content platform, UIVR, USBS, MIEP, ICR communication platforms

#Education

#Faculty of Applied Mathematics: Information systems and software in the economy

Saratov State University named after N.G.Chernyshevsky