Konstantin Makeikin

ShivaVPN · Remote

• > Own the VPN product end to end — roadmap, build, release, support — for a platform of 500+ servers across 35 countries, serving 5,000+ users
• > Prioritized protocols and regions by what stays reachable in restricted, high-censorship markets (Xray/VLESS + Reality, Shadowsocks) — censorship resistance as the product's core value, not feature count
• > Cut client activation time from 30 s to under 1 s with a pre-created account pool — a direct onboarding/UX win
• > Integrated payments (Stripe, NowPayments, Freekassa) — removed the revenue bottleneck for international users
• > Drove a backend quality turnaround that cut user-facing incidents: 258 tests added, critical N+1 queries eliminated (100 SQL → 5 per batch), 25 bugs resolved
• > Built the VPN Config Service from scratch (Python/FastAPI) — managing configs across the entire fleet from one control plane
• > Reliability as a user KPI: 99.9% uptime, MTTR < 15 min, blue-green releases (zero downtime, 30 s rollback, 5–10 deploys/week)

NaviScope — Maritime IoT Platform · Remote

• > Owned delivery across a 31-microservice platform (28 repos) — coordinated backend, edge, and data work
• > Cut release cycle from days to hours via standardized CI/CD and staged rollouts

HHIVP.com · Remote

• > Ran an independent consulting practice serving 15+ corporate (B2B) clients — owned the relationship end to end: scoping, architecture, delivery, and SLA
• > Delivered full per-client stacks (VoIP, mail, VPN, Telegram bots, push) on 40+ Linux servers across dedicated and cloud environments
• > Held a 99.5%+ uptime SLA across all clients with Zabbix monitoring (200+ hosts) and automated escalation
• > Owned business continuity: daily-verified backups, DR runbooks, and security hardening — zero data-loss incidents
• > Rolled out CRM and team-workflow tooling for clients (Bitrix24, 1C, Trello / Kanban) — standardized their sales and delivery processes

Fintech / Crypto Platform (NDA) · Remote

• > Delivered regulated payment infrastructure in a 5-person platform team — security & compliance treated as product requirements; zero security incidents

ООО СТК · Russia

• > Full operational and P&L responsibility for a regional ISP — ~10,000–20,000 subscribers; grew ARPU from ~500₽ to ~800₽/mo (+60%), ~100–190M₽/yr revenue, team of 35+ engineers, 50M₽+ budget
• > Public-sector / B2G: negotiated the provider's operating terms with municipal and regional government bodies — secured the right-of-way and approvals an ISP needs to operate across districts
• > Government procurement: owned public-tender participation and the compliance regime around it, including required regulatory and organizational documentation
• > Owned budgeting, equipment procurement, and vendor/operator negotiations — cut cost per Gbps 30% by renegotiating transit contracts
• > Reorganized operations around KPIs and business metrics; built monitoring (Zabbix), incident management, SLA, and change-management processes
• > Scaled the network (peak 180 Gbps; BGP/OSPF/MPLS, MSK-IX/Data-IX peering) under subscriber growth with no downtime

Netorn LLC · Russia

• > Built a telecom network from scratch across Moscow districts and regional towns (Sergiev Posad, Shchyolkovo, Korolyov, Aleksandrov) — from access switching to a 180 Gbps backbone (GPON/DWDM, BGP peering at MSK-IX / Data-IX), scaling the subscriber base over the years with no downtime
• > Grew from engineer to Director over 11 years (teams up to 25+); as Director owned strategy and growth — strategic decisions, partnership and operator agreements, negotiations, recruiting and building the team, and running tech support and other departments
• > Represented the company at industry conferences
• > Ran the full ISP stack: BGP / OSPF / MPLS / VRF, CGNAT, DNS/DHCP HA, RADIUS, billing, DDoS mitigation across Cisco / Juniper / MikroTik gear
• > Onboarded corporate (B2B) clients — leased lines, site-to-site VPN, link redundancy — and stood up monitoring, incident and change management
• > Led disaster recovery after a catastrophic DB failure (2012): restored service for 10,000+ subscribers, manual reconstruction from HEX dumps over 4 weeks, zero data loss

Claustrophobia — "Philosopher's Stone" Quest Room · Moscow, Russia

• > Co-founded and launched an escape-room venue from zero
• > Owned every layer end to end: premises (site selection, fit-out, contractors), legal/organizational setup, hiring and managing staff, and day-to-day operations
• > Grew to 150+ bookings/month and built and ran a team of 8
• > Owned the 7M+ ₽ budget; won "Quest of the Year 2016" — industry recognition for product quality

MikroTik Training Courses · Russia

• > Built and delivered 4 hands-on MikroTik (RouterOS) training courses — designed the curriculum and taught network engineers to configure, manage, and troubleshoot MikroTik routers (routing, firewall, VPN, QoS)
• > Turned a niche networking skill into a productized course — a small education business run end to end