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Product Manager
TON StudioProduct Manager
Apr. 2025 - Jan. 2026Key achievements: - Launched the TON Loyalty Program from concept to go-live, acquiring 600,000 users and generating $700,000+ in transaction volume within the first quarter, while maintaining a positive ROI. - Drove an additional $1M in transaction volume by designing and shipping a 2-week experimental MVP campaign. - Increased core user retention by 30% by designing and shipping a gamified rewards system based on insights from surveying hundreds of developers and thousands of users. Responsibilities: - End-to-end product ownership: discovery → delivery → GTM → growth. - Cross-functional leadership: engineering, UI/UX, marketing, bizdev, legal, community, support. - Defined strategy, roadmap, features, success metrics. - Conducted user & partner interviews, surveys, community communication. - Stakeholder management across TON verticals. - Used AI tooling for research, prototyping and hypothesis validation
CEO & CTO
GameplarCEO & CTO
Nov. 2023 - Apr. 2025Leadership, management and optimisation of indie-gamedev studio operations. - Design and implement both technical and business solutions and decisions; - Finance and legal management; - Working with the publisher's team; - Hiring and building the team; - Optimising the delivery processes; - Participating in game design; - Implemented data tracking and analysis; - Hands-on game development on Unity (yes, writing code);
Head of Product & Business Strategy
BeInCryptoHead of Product & Business Strategy
Aug. 2022 - Sep. 2023- defining a vision, strategy, roadmap and its implementation for education product “Learn”; - exploring new revenue streams; - building product delivery processes; - board membership, overall business strategies and revenue streams alignment and coordination; - leading cross-functional teams;
Product Manager
Lido FinanceProduct Manager
Apr. 2021 - Jul. 2022Product management at lido.fi : - managed Lido referral program: 1.1M ETH TVL growth - managed top wallets (Ledger and other) and DeFi protocols integrations (~40 protocols integrations) - business development (integrations, foundation, bizdev processes) - managed transition of Lido on Solana to P2P (https://blog.lido.fi/new-era-for-lido-on-solana/) - hired and built Lido on Solana dedicated team (inside P2P) and processes - participate in strategy planning - own backlog, specs, prioritization, delivery - manage UI/UX design and improvements - manage Lido on Solana program update (from design to delivery) - participate in DAO governance / bizops (proposals, voting, rewards payout) - participate in validator strategy (https://economy.p2p.org/lido-on-solana-validator-set-vision/) - speaking at conferences (Ledger Live) and AMA sessions (Orca, Larix, Hubble, Crema)
Product Manager / Owner
MadDevs.ioProduct Manager / Owner
Feb. 2019 - Apr. 2021Product Management & Consulting. Worked with startups from the USA and SEA. Key responsibilities: Define key business metrics and conversions; Setup product delivery processes; Ideation and prioritization based on business value; Backlog ownership; Product & user behavior analytics; Lead UI/UX design and improvements; Product documentation & reports;
Co-Founder, Head of Product Development
Fintech Crypto StartupCo-Founder, Head of Product Development
Jul. 2018 - Jul. 2021Built a startup in crypto fintech fields from business idea to production with my business partner, handling all the aspects of business, product, design, architecture and development.
Product Manager
eatigoProduct Manager
Jun. 2017 - Dec. 2018Bangkok Metropolitan Area, ThailandDelivered Progressive Web Application for eatigo.com. Designed and delivered new custom Billing System (accounting) as Product Owner. - analyzed business requirements and customer needs, write user stories and technical requirements; - technical and data-flow design; - usability and interface design; - execute project and deliver product; - forming and prioritizing backlog; - QA and user acceptance testing; - manage budgets and timeline; - manage distributed development team; - build development and delivery processes;
Head of iOS/Mobile Development
Lazada GroupHead of iOS/Mobile Development
Apr. 2015 - Jun. 2017Thailand- I have hired and built 3 great iOS Teams, we've built Mobile Department with my Android counterpart; - Setup processes and feature delivery pipeline that are scaled for the 3 Teams (per platform) in 3 countries in 2 timezones; - Built TechHub in Lazada Thailand; - We built Scrum based scalable Agile development process that is productive, convenient and clear for Stakeholders and Teams. - We've re-worked Lazada Mobile Apps from a scratch. - I have been involved in Project and Product Management, reviewing and expediting UI Design. - We've reduced crash rate form ~8% to 0.05%.
Founder, Head of Development
Agile StudioFounder, Head of Development
Jun. 2014 - Aug. 2015Moscow, Russian FederationDevelop Apps and Web in Studio mode. Talking about my role - I founded the Studio and I was acting as an owner, manager, seller, business analytic, system architect, project manager and developer as well (too many, I know). For each project I've made and managed a team. The best project that've we developed is the crowdfunding platform, that was developed from scratch to live product in App Store and Web client. Development also included backend and integration with payment systems.
Senior iOS developer
ShopfeeSenior iOS developer
May. 2012 - May. 2013Moscow, Russian Federation
PHP-developer
LLC Kupishoes / Lamoda.ruPHP-developer
May. 2011 - Nov. 2011Moscow, Russian Federation
Co-Founder, iOS Developer
wardiCo-Founder, iOS Developer
Jan. 2011 - Dec. 2012Created startup from scratch to product: - Pitched idea and raised investment; - Onboarded team; - Implementation: idea, concept, design, architecture, UI/UX; - Developed iOS app; - Project management; Achievements: - won competition and raise investment (from Farminers Startup Academy) - implemented startup from idea to product on app stores - learned iOS development on the way
Web-developer
MegaplanWeb-developer
Jan. 2010 - Dec. 2011Moscow, Russian Federation
System And Database Administrator
MAKTORSystem And Database Administrator
Jan. 2007 - Dec. 2010Moscow, Russian FederationMaintain software, infrastructure, services and Oracle Database of Automated Management System of Moscow Ambulance Service.
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