Paul Grichenko

Paul Grichenko is the VP of Engineering at Rhapsody, a position they have held for 3 years and 4 months. Prior to this, they were the Senior Director at Verizon Media, where they participated in M&A due diligence on a technical side and led 3 teams: Operations DevOps, Microservices decomposition, and Machine Learning. Paul also controlled all infrastructure costs (in AWS), migrated all on-premises components to AWS, reviewed all tier-0 designs and participated in those designs production, reviewed and applied ITSec requirements to AWS infrastructure, and organized 24x7 on-call rotation for the operations group.

Before their time at Verizon Media, Paul was the VP of Engineering at Vidible for 1 year and 9 months. At Vidible, they kicked off the Vidible Video Content Management Marketplace and assembled an engineering group of 10 Dev Leads and a total of 70 engineers. Paul established all the development and operational procedures, controlled all development and operational costs to ensure sustainable product evolution, designed all tier-0 components, and managed all infrastructure work in AWS. Paul also prepared all acquisition materials that later led to Vidible being purchased by AOL.

Paul started their career as a Senior SDE Lead at Microsoft, where they worked for 1 year and 3 months.

Paul Grichenko's education consists of two MemSQL trainings, one for administrators and one for developers, as well as a certification in Adult First Aid/CPR/AED from the American Red Cross.

The team that Paul Grichenko works with includes the following people: Lev Brailovskiy, VP of Engineering; Paul Grichenko, VP of Engineering; Kim Fish, VP of Veterinary Strategy; Jordan Holmes, Sales Manager; Katie Huneke, VP of Sales; Ashley Perez, Head of Customer Support; Kristina Guldbrand, Director of Operations; Katie Schafer, Head of Account Management; Alex Krooglik, Founder, GM B2C; Thomas Zuccotti, VP of Product; Rachelle Menn, Marketing Manager; Sal Elaameir, VP of Finance; Tim Mahlman, President.