Paul Grinchenko - Sr. Director | Principal Architect, Chewy

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Work Background

ChewySr Director (Infra, Operations)

Dec. 2022 - Mar. 2024Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-siteWorking on infrastructure/operations/scalability of Rhapsody veterinary platform

Petabyte TechnologiesVP of Software Engineering

Apr. 2019 - Dec. 2022Bellevue, WAWorking in the completely new area of veterinary industry. Website: https://www.rhapsody.vet/

VidibleVP of Engineering

Apr. 2013 - Dec. 2014Bellevue, WA• Kicked off Vidible Video Content Management Marketplace • Assembled an engineering group of 10 Dev Leads and total 70 engineers • Established all the development and operational procedures • Controlled all development and operational costs to ensure sustainable product evolution • Designed all tier-0 components • Managed all infrastructure work in AWS • Prepared all acquisition materials that later led to Vidible being purchased by AOL

Validio SoftwareSenior Software Developer

Jan. 1993 - Dec. 2001Various software development products as a contractor.

Verizon MediaSenior Director

Dec. 2014 - Mar. 2019Bellevue, WA• Vidible was purchased by AOL • AOL was merged with Yahoo into Verizon Media • Participated in M&A due diligence on a technical side • Lead 3 teams: Operations DevOps, Microservices decomposition, Machine Learning • Controlling all infrastructure costs (in AWS) • Migrated all on-premises components to AWS • Reviewing all tier-0 designs and participating in those designs production • Reviewing and applying ITSec requirements to AWS infrastructure • Organized 24x7 on-call rotation for the operations group • Incidents investigations

CollectiveIndependent Contractor

Apr. 2013 - Apr. 2014Bellevue, WA

CollectiveDirector of Technology, Rich Media

Feb. 2011 - Apr. 2013* Oggifinogi was bought by Collective Scaling Rich Media services/infrastructure. Making everything geo-distributed. Evaluating various storage technologies for demanding use-cases of the online advertisement. Managing development/operations.

CollectiveDirector of Engineering

Apr. 2010 - Apr. 2013Working on improving the scalability of the advertising platform. Normalizing development cycles. Leading development and operation groups to create maintenance free environment. Producing new design for real-time reporting system. Cost analysis and infrastructure planning. Operational root cause analysis and incident management.

MicrosoftSenior SDE Lead

Feb. 2009 - Apr. 2010Working on distributed disk (ApDrive) design. Designing next generation of engineering engagement system (ApConsole). Adding new features to the widely used Environment/Deployment monitoring tool (XTS).