Vitaliy Stanyshevskyy

Vitaliy Stanyshevskyy

Engineering Manager · Copenhagen, Denmark (CET)

Hands-on engineering manager with 5+ years of engineering leadership and 10+ years in software engineering, leading cross-functional teams to build customer-facing products and integration-heavy systems in fast-moving environments.

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Experience

Engineering Manager · Awaze A/S

May 2024 - Present · Copenhagen, DK (Hybrid)

  • Lead a 10-person engineering team building customer-facing features and integration capabilities across Next.js, GraphQL and REST APIs, and AWS-backed services.
  • Merged two separate teams into a single operating model with clearer ownership, better coordination, and stronger execution across product development and partner integration work.
  • Introduced automated quality gates and improved test coverage, contributing to an approximately 40% reduction in production incidents.
  • Made the development environment independently testable, reducing QA handover time from up to one day to roughly 20 minutes.
  • Led a cross-functional AI pilot on top of existing APIs from prototype through executive-backed investment.

Engineering Manager · Pleo Technologies

Jun 2021 - Apr 2024 · Remote

  • Led a remote cross-functional product engineering team of 9, directly managing 6 engineers, building customer-facing capabilities for Pleo's spend management platform.
  • Led delivery of employee reimbursements to personal bank accounts in a high-risk payments domain, shipping in three months and supporting more than EUR 4.5M in monthly transfers.
  • Worked across product, design, platform, and compliance to make trade-offs around scope, safeguards, and rollout in a domain where errors were costly and hard to reverse.
  • Improved quality, performance, and observability through stronger engineering practices, clearer ownership, and better workflows.
  • Coached engineers through feedback, growth planning, and increased technical ownership, contributing to promotions to Senior and Staff level.

Senior Frontend Engineer · Pleo Technologies

Nov 2020 - Jun 2021 · Remote

  • Built customer-facing product capabilities for Pleo's spend management platform in a remote cross-functional engineering team.
  • Owned delivery end to end, from refinement and implementation through release, documentation, and analytics.
  • Migrated a core product area from Redux to SWR, reducing frontend complexity and improving maintainability.
  • Improved customer-facing flows through better accessibility and stronger frontend implementation standards.

Senior Software Engineer · Whitespectre LLC

May 2017 - Apr 2020 · Remote

  • Built customer-facing web applications for a high-traffic ecommerce and direct sales platform using React, Vue.js, and REST-based services.
  • Owned feature delivery end to end, from design and implementation through testing and release.
  • Improved frontend maintainability by creating reusable components and reducing duplication across the codebase.
  • Improved the Nightwatch.js end-to-end test suite, cutting manual testing time from 3 hours to 1 hour.

Technical Lead · Whitespectre LLC

May 2020 - Oct 2020 · Remote

  • Led a remote team of 4 engineers on an inherited client platform, bringing technical direction and delivery stability during a six-month transition before handover to another vendor.
  • Improved platform performance and infrastructure efficiency, reducing operating costs by 50%.
  • Led a mobile app redesign and introduced a repeatable release pipeline, improving release quality and predictability.

Senior Engineer · JustAnswer LLC

Jun 2013 - Apr 2017 · Ukraine

  • Improved performance of high-traffic customer-facing pages in a Microsoft/.NET environment as part of a data-driven web engineering team.
  • Migrated heavily used WebForms pages to Node.js and JSX, reducing load time by 40% and modernising part of the frontend stack.
  • Used experimentation to improve page performance and engagement, contributing to a 15% increase in click-through rate through A/B testing.

Volunteering

Web Developer (Pro Bono) · vpershe.com

Aug 2018 - Dec 2022 · NGO, Ukraine

  • Built and maintained a public educational platform for Ukrainian teenagers using Gatsby.js and React.
  • Contributed to growth from launch to 53K monthly visitors in 14 months.
  • Improved organic discoverability, helping the platform reach #2 on Google for relevant short-tail keywords.

Certifications

Skills

  • Engineering Management
  • React and TypeScript
  • Cross-functional Product Delivery
  • Technical Leadership
  • Product Engineering
  • Coaching and Performance Management
  • Quality, Reliability and Observability
  • Remote Team Leadership
  • Accessibility

Technologies

TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, Express, GraphQL, REST APIs, AWS, Datadog, Sentry, New Relic, Amplitude.

Education

M.S., Software Engineering, 2015 · Uzhgorod National University, Ukraine

Languages

  • English - Full professional proficiency
  • Danish - B1
  • Ukrainian - Native