Summary

Lead engineer of R&D department, Microsoft Certified System Administrator and highly organized IT/product engineer with over ten years of technical experience in hardware/software diagnostic, product development, software deployment and maintenance. Proven ability to manage the day-to-day running of the R&D department and business IT systems.

Skills

Maintaining / Deploying

• Product customization, pre-production teststing, QC, factory inspections, document preparation
• Diagnostics of hardware and software of products
• Development and operations (CI/CD, Git, GitLab, Kubernetes, Grafana, Terraform)
• Installation/Configuration/Maintenance of Microsoft Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, FreeBSD, CentOS, Ubuntu
• Database administration (MSSQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Asterisk (VoIP PBX)

Programming

• Bash, PHP, Python

Experience

Yandex Factory Product Engineer, 2023-2025

Responsibilities:

• I perform functional and stress testing, analyze hardware and software component compatibility, integrate and validate custom Windows builds, and coordinate the bug-fixing process with OEM/ODM partners up to the mass production stage
• Actively involved in QC inspections for laptops, tablets, monitors, and power adapters. Perform root cause analysis and technical evaluation of detected defects, provide engineering feedback and corrective action recommendations to factory teams, and verify the implementation of fixes to ensure compliance with quality standards and mass production readiness
• I have extensive experience in Windows image management. Responsible for analyzing and validating operating system builds, integrating custom scripts and system modifications, and performing comprehensive image testing prior to mass production

Contribution:

• Performed full-cycle testing and qualification of: 29 laptop models (10 released to MP), 25 monitor models (3 released to MP, 2 in final MP preparation), 19 tablet models (4 released to MP)
• Established and equipped a validation lab for laptops, tablets, monitors, and power adapters with tools for power measurement, thermal analysis, and stability testing
• Developed and refined validation checklists and test cases for functional, stress, and regression testing according to MP (Mass Production) requirements
• Implemented a monitor testing method for measuring response time and evaluating MPRT and Overdrive functions. Developed Python scripts to process and analyze the obtained test results
• Currently in the process of implementing a testing stand for evaluating the sound quality of built-in laptop speakers based on the CTA-2034 standard
• Experienced in integrating the Yandex Alice voice assistant into IoT smart-home devices based on Tuya modules. Configured and debugged device communication with Tuya cloud services, SDKs, and APIs for multiple product categories (smart bulbs, sockets, IR controllers, robot vacuums, temperature, gas and water leak sensors, RGB strips). Proficient in using the Tuya IoT Platform for device provisioning, firmware updates, and cloud-to-cloud integration; provide technical consulting to Yandex Factory engineers on device compatibility and ecosystem integration

Product Development Engineer (2018–2024)

International manufacturer of digital devices and consumer electronics Digma / Starwind

Responsibilities:

• Management of the R&D department (3 engineers)
• Collaboration with factories in Shenzhen
• Quality control and inspections
• Product documentation and testing
• Arrangement for mass production

Contribution:

• Developed and implemented corrective and preventative actions to improve the quality of the products resulting in a reduction in flaws/defects
• Developed documentation for more than 50 final products that reached mass production and passed quality control
• Participated in the quality control inspection process
• Participated in the factory inspection process
• Development/implementation of scripts for updating GPS databases for DVRs
• Development of checklists for wearable electronics, DVRs with GPS databases
• Creation / bringing to the production stage / localization of smart home products in the Tuya portal
• Prepared a user's manual from scratch for smart home products, DVRs, action cameras, and wearable electronics
• Successful launch of more than 50 products with a total number of units of more than 70,000 that are successfully sold in the Russian Federation

Founder, IT Outsourcing Company (2015–2018)

• Full IT support for business partners
• Planning IT development and budgeting
• Building personal cloud infrastructure (Hyper-V)
• Monitoring system for servers and VoIP

Senior Systems Administrator (2006–2015)

IT distribution company (Merlion.com).

• Maintained 25+ remote branches
• Managed AD infrastructure and VoIP systems
• Developed CCTV and network monitoring systems

Certification

• MCSA (Microsoft Certified System Administrator) — 2012
  Detailed information in my transcript on learn.microsoft.com
  MCID: 5813822
• Yandex DevOps for Development and Operations Professional Training Course (INO CPE «SDA») — 2022
  Certificate of completion

Education

• 2006 V.P. Astafiev Krasnoyarsk State Pedagogical University, Specialist in Computer science and Physycs. Level of qualification accordind to the ISCED (scale 5A)

Additional Information

• I have deployed a local smart home system based on HomeAssistant/HomeBridge on Proxmox and Raspberry Pi.
• Rolled out the Kubernetes MiniKube cluster on macOS for my own development and understanding how Kubernetes works under the hood.
• Moved my CV landing website parshinp.ru to my own private cloud server using Rancher k3s Kubernetes cluster.