Curriculum Vitae

Aleksejs Kovaļovs

CTO / VP of Engineering Candidate · 15+ Years Experience

Riga, Latvia · Born in 1990 (Age 36)

Contacts

Email: aleks4444@inbox.lv

Phone: +371 26185369

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kovalovs-lv

Portfolio: kovalovs.lv

Education

↬ 2013-2015 Institute of Transport and Telecommunications

Master’s degree in Information Systems

↬ 2009-2013 Institute of Transport and Telecommunications

Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering

↬ 2011 Institute of Transport and Telecommunications

IT Project Management qualification course

Work experience

↬ Since Mar. 2025 (1 year 7 months)

AS Mapon

Engineering Manager

↬ Jan. 2022 – Mar. 2025 (3 years 2 months)

SIA Inbokss (inbox.lv)

Project Manager / technical lead

↬ Sep. 2020 – May 2026 (5 years 8 months)

Biedrība Zārdi

Member of the Board (Civic Leadership / Non-Profit)

↬ Nov. 2016 – Nov. 2021 (5 years)

SIA Inbokss (inbox.lv)

PHP Developer / pp.lv backend team

↬ Apr. 2011 – Nov. 2016 (5 years 8 months)

AS DNB Banka

Functional Analyst / core banking team

Experience and Qualities

✓ Core Banking Reliability & 400,000+ IoT Real-Time Devices, Distributed High-Load Architecture

✓ Operational Excellence, Incident Response & On-Call Rituals, Security & Compliance, Observability

✓ Technical Architecture & Microservices, Pragmatic Modernization (PHP, Go, Cloud, CI/CD)

✓ Engineering Leadership (7 Direct Reports), Cross-Team Alignment (9 Peer Teams), Psych Safety

✓ Strategic Tech Roadmaps, Delivery Predictability & Velocity, ROI & Tech Investment Prioritization

✓ Riga Tech Hub Site Leadership & Hiring, Mentorship, Executive & Cross-Functional Alignment

Leadership Scope & Technical Governance

People Leadership & Culture

❖ Drive psychological safety and a blameless culture, leading a high-trust engineering team of 7 direct reports
❖ Accelerate engineer growth via structured 1-on-1s, transparent career paths, and proactive burnout prevention
❖ Conduct exit interviews across the IT department, analyzing feedback to systematically improve team retention

Architecture & Standards

❖ Set architectural guardrails and maintain shared technical alignment across all 9 peer engineering teams
❖ Balance product velocity with platform resilience, technical debt reduction, and zero-downtime reliability
❖ Consolidate fragmented solutions into standardized, reusable shared platforms and services

Applied AI & Innovation

❖ Introduce practical AI tools and custom domain skills to eliminate repetitive engineering toil
❖ Lead hands-on workshops upskilling engineers in agentic workflows, prompt engineering, and modern AI tooling
❖ Build rapid AI-assisted PoCs to test new architectures and validate feasibility before full commitments

Cross-Team Alignment & SDLC

❖ Partner with Product leadership on roadmaps, resource trade-offs, and technical investment priorities
❖ Modernize the SDLC and organize engineering architecture and documentation into a single source of truth
❖ Facilitate architecture forums and implement Architecture Decision Records (ADRs) for collective consensus

Strategy, OKRs & Delivery

❖ Influence technical strategy and lead quarterly roadmap planning tied directly to business KPIs
❖ Define team OKRs and delivery milestones, ensuring high focus, transparent velocity, and accountability
❖ Manage end-to-end delivery unblocking dependencies, mitigating operational risks, and elevating observability

Platform, CI/CD & Quality Engineering

❖ Champion automated cloud CI/CD resolving day-long manual frontend build merge locks across teams
❖ Optimize build performance and cloud runner resource consumption to accelerate deployment cadence
❖ Introduce automated E2E testing rituals to prevent release regressions and protect release confidence