Mitya Kozlov

Developer-focused platform engineer and DevOps specialist with 15+ years building systems that scale. Delivered 41% faster deployments, 34% better SLIs, and 2x developer throughput as Head of Engineering at a fintech scale-up by building Kubernetes infrastructure and CI/CD automation. Grew revenue and engineering velocity by coupling strategic platform decisions with hands-on execution.

Société Générale Factoring

• Head of Engineering & Platform

  Managing Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, and Product Development teams

  Sep 2017 - Feb 2024 • 6 yrs 6 mos

  • Reduced deployment time by 41% and improved SLIs by 34% by migrating distributed system spanning 11 time zones to private Kubernetes cloud (OpenShift on VMware), implementing observability standards (Grafana, Victoria Metrics stack), and refactoring services to cloud-native, concurrent architectures with automated failover and disaster recovery aligned with DORA metrics.
  • Doubled developer throughput and eliminated environment provisioning wait times by implementing Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform & Ansible) with GitOps workflows and policy-as-code validation, enabling self-service infrastructure across 3 engineering squads.
  • Reduced incident resolution time (MTTR) by 45% by establishing observability and monitoring standards (Grafana, Victoria Metrics/Logs/Traces) and implementing on-call runbooks that enabled data-driven incident response.
  • Cut delivery cycle time from 90 to <30 days (85th percentile) and boosted developer CSAT from 32% to 78% by building CI/CD pipelines with automated acceptance testing and deployment automation.
  • Reduced developer onboarding from 2 weeks to <1 day and cut engineer churn from 15% to 3% by building automated dev environments and self-service developer portal.
  • Scaled platform to handle >10x customer growth with 99.9%+ uptime by replacing legacy monolith with event-driven microservices using Hexagonal architecture and Domain Driven Design (DDD) patterns.

• Head of Business & Technology Operations

  Jul 2013 - Sep 2017 • 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Reduced payment cycle time by 73% and operational overhead by 19% by designing and deploying real-time payment processing pipelines (ISO 20022 API).
  • Delivered $0.9M annual interest savings by building a cashflow forecasting platform that processed large-scale transactional datasets, improving asset/liability duration matching.
  • Added 30 bps in revenue by reducing interest expense on unallocated client funds, increasing payment auto-allocation success rate from 30% to 90%+ through implementation of pattern recognition algorithms.
  • Boosted partner integration adoption by 3x by publishing RESTful APIs for payment initiation and reconciliation through WSO2 API Gateway with self-service developer documentation and tooling.

• Senior Product Manager

  Nov 2010 - Jul 2014 • 3 yrs 9 mos

  • Launched a new SME financing product that reached break-even in 8 months and grew to 21% of business line revenue by validating demand with 100+ customer interviews and securing SLT buy-in backed by $1.1M in funding.
  • Boosted conversion 2.6x and CLTV by 29%, achieving 3x ROI, by reprioritizing roadmap using unit economics and implementing automated onboarding flows.
  • Orchestrated GTM for new products, blending sales-assisted and product-led growth, which doubled pipeline velocity and expanded addressable market by 17%.
  • Accelerated time-to-market by 25% for customer-facing features by leading 3 cross-functional squads, balancing engineering constraints with product goals.

• Project Lead

  Product Development

  Jun 2007 - Nov 2010 • 3 yrs 6 mos