Uliana Sirotina
Engineering Manager with background in frontend development
Munich, Germany
About
I lead engineering teams that care about purposeful work, empathy, and clarity. My background in front-end development helps me bridge product, design, and engineering — creating environments where people and products grow together.
What I care about
open, clear and direct communication | empathy at work | mental health | understanding the bigger picture | documented processes | cross-functional work | cool team events
Experience
SoSafe — Engineering Team Lead
2024 - curr.- ⚬ Managing a cross-functional team of 2: collaborating with a trio (PM & Designer) to define the team's roadmap and priorities, based on overall product strategy and company values
- ⚬ Navigated the team through a time of change: team changing constellation and scope regularly over the past months
- ⚬ Implemented guardrails and monitoring for accessibility in key products
Garden.io — Senior Frontend Engineer
2023 - 2024.- ⚬ Developing features using Typescript, ReactJS, React-Query, styled-components
- ⚬ Made smaller improvements to the API
Adjust — Senior Frontend Engineer
2022 - 2023- ⚬ Developing features using Typescript, ReactJS, React-Query, styled-components
- ⚬ Improving processes within the team: API error handling structurization, separating Sentry from main company project, creating a bug board and bug flow for the team
Uberall — Engineering Manager | Squad lead
2020 - 2022- ⚬ Managed a cross-functional team of 6: communicating with stakeholders, defining the team's roadmap, participating in product and design decisions during the feature planning phase, dealing with technical debt, improving internal squad processes
- ⚬ Coaching team members, helping them set up goals and develop their careers, conducting performance assessments, creating and maintaining continuous feedback culture, keeping good relationships within the team, preventing conflicts and roadblocks
- ⚬ Navigated the team through the time of change: acquisition of another company, reorganisation inside the department, multiple changes in processes
- ⚬ Introduced Scrum process in my squad from scratch
Uberall — Frontend Engineer
2019 - 2020- ⚬ Developed features using ReactJS, Redux, React-Query, and Less, conducted code reviews
- ⚬ Improved onboarding documentation and process in the Engineering department
- ⚬ Hiring manager since August 2020: conducting interviews, communicating with recruiters, improving hiring process documentation together with BE hiring manager, onboarding other devs to join interviews
- ⚬ Leading the creation of UI-component library (Theme UI, ReactJS)
- ⚬ Organised and ran the Frontend Chapter meetings
- ⚬ De-facto representing the Frontend team in Engineering department
- ⚬ Improved FE build setup reliability: worked closely with a task force between FEs and DevOps to improve our frontend build
- ⚬ Part of the creative team: cross-functional team in the company that takes care of all the events within the company
- ⚬ As a genuinely active and caring person - I organised various events for the squad and department. Both online and offline
- ⚬ The go-to person inside and outside of the Engineering department
Searchmetrics — Junior Frontend Engineer
2016 - 2019- ⚬ Joined as a working student, stayed as a frontend engineer
- ⚬ Created and maintained UI-kit (component library) - Storybook, ReactJS
- ⚬ Developed features using ReactJS, SCSS, Glamor, node.js, GraphQL, Highcharts
- ⚬ Mentoring FE working students
- ⚬ Part of QA Chapter and Frontend Chapter
Lana Labs — Frontend working student
2016- ⚬ Student job for several months worked with AngularJS
binaere bauten — Frontend working student
2015 - 2016- ⚬ Started my frontend career here, ask me about how I became a frontend developer!
- ⚬ Developed features using AngularJS, WordPress
Freelancing
Part-time freelance - Trail Frontend Engineer
Oct. 2023 - curr.- ⚬ Developing features using Typescript, ReactJS, GraphQL with Apollo Client
Part-time freelance - Rebels AI Frontend Engineer
Dec. 2020 - Jun. 2021 & Nov. 2021 - Jan. 2022- ⚬ Refactoring a webapp for geologists using ReactJS, React-Query, Chakra UI, Theme-UI
- ⚬ Communicating directly with the client, consulting, refactoring their code
- ⚬ Created an interface for state exam task generator using ReactJS and Chakra UI
Education
Technical University of Berlin — M. Sc. Computer Science
2015 - 2018Majoring in Media design and Human-computer interaction
Russian State University for the Humanities — Diploma, Intellectual Systems in Humanitarian Sphere
2009 - 2014Additional info
Mentor Move — Career and relocation mentor
2022Career and relocation mentor for specialists of different backgrounds and experiences on the topics of finding a job in Europe
- ⚬ Reviewing CVs
- ⚬ Conducting mock interviews
- ⚬ Coaching