Nikita Fridrikh

# Product/Project manager

Location PolandDesired Salary 20 -  USD/hourlyWork preference Full TimeLinks Status   Actively looking Field / Industry Product & Operations

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Languages:  English -   Polish -   Russian -

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## About Me

• Product/Project manager, Team Lead with 8 years of experience in IT;
• Data Science and research experience in Fintech/Crypto domains. Background in mathematics and statistics;
• Experienced in Product Strategy and Roadmap formation;
• Experience and understanding of all stages of software development lifecycle (SDLC) methodology;
• Good communication skills, self-motivated, creative, scrupulous, critical thinker, team player.

## Skills

### [Kubernetes](https://jobicy.com/talent/kubernetes.md)[Docker](https://jobicy.com/talent/docker.md)[Azure](https://jobicy.com/talent/azure.md)[CI CD](https://jobicy.com/talent/ci-cd.md)[Jira](https://jobicy.com/talent/jira.md)[Machine Learning](https://jobicy.com/talent/machine-learning.md)[Git](https://jobicy.com/talent/git.md)[Terraform](https://jobicy.com/talent/terraform.md)[Team Leadership](https://jobicy.com/talent/team-leadership.md)[Agile](https://jobicy.com/talent/agile.md)[Market Research](https://jobicy.com/talent/market-research.md)[PostgreSQL](https://jobicy.com/talent/postgresql.md)[A B Testing](https://jobicy.com/talent/a-b-testing.md)[Scrum](https://jobicy.com/talent/scrum.md)[Grafana](https://jobicy.com/talent/grafana.md)[Confluence](https://jobicy.com/talent/confluence.md)[Canva](https://jobicy.com/talent/canva.md)[Spring Boot](https://jobicy.com/talent/spring-boot.md)[Django](https://jobicy.com/talent/django.md)[Big Data](https://jobicy.com/talent/big-data.md)[Statistics](https://jobicy.com/talent/statistics.md)[Trello](https://jobicy.com/talent/trello.md)[Junit](https://jobicy.com/talent/junit.md)[Customer Research](https://jobicy.com/talent/customer-research.md)[Hibernate](https://jobicy.com/talent/hibernate.md)[Nginx](https://jobicy.com/talent/nginx.md)[Mailchimp](https://jobicy.com/talent/mailchimp.md)[Matlab](https://jobicy.com/talent/matlab.md)[Apache Maven](https://jobicy.com/talent/apache-maven.md)

## Experience

Product Manager @ Pangolin Development Llc. Warsaw, Poland - Full-cycle software development and maintenance  2023 - 2024 Product Manager  -  Project portfolio management of  WEB and mobile B2C applications - Burger-King.by, Ziko.by, Wss.by, Zoobazar.by
•	Strategic planning, execution, alignment, monitoring and control of the portfolio of projects
•	Launched several cross-team features in coordination with analysts, marketers, developers and UI/UX designers
•	Roadmap formation and collecting requirements from C-Level business stakeholders
•	Competitive market analysis
•	Identified the key pain points of the target audience using Custdev
•	Backlog refinement, resource allocation and risk management
Technologies used: Node.js, React Native, Next.js, Nginx etc.

Project Manager  - Kardex Remstar (Germany) - Leading producer in Intralogistics and warehouse management domain
•	Coordination of development and testing of customized software solutions for customer’s clients
•	Planning, Execution, Monitoring, Control, and closure of projects
•	Communication with clients
•	Task assignment to team members
•	Resolving arising issues
•	Guidance and assistance of the senior management on finance accounting and technical issues
Technologies used: .NET, Angular, MSSQL etc.

Team Lead/Research Consultant @ Smart Valor AG, Zurich, Switzerland - Full-service authorized API-based Crypto-as-a-Service digital exchange  2023 - 2024 Elann.ai - AI-Powered Research and Transaction Execution engine service (Switzerland)
•	On-chain data analytics software development
•	Implementing Large Language Models (LLM) to advance in blockchain/WEB3 space
•	Whitepaper research and Technical documentation preparation
•	Communication and reporting to C-level stakeholders and business owners
•	Technical project management and team coordination
Technologies used: Python, LangChain, BeautifulSoup, Java, SpringBoot, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, Hibernate etc.

Product/Sales Manager @ Section228 Ltd. Minsk, Belarus - Full-range digital marketing agency  03.2023 - 08.2023 Product management and performance marketing of portfolio of projects - Burger-King.by, Delivio, Yalla!Market, Yves Rocher
•	Product vision and strategy development
•	Product requirements gathering and prioritizing
•	Cross-functional collaboration including engineering, design, marketing, sales, and customer support teams
•	Managing operations and product metrics
•	Product performance monitoring. Increased traffic by 2 times due to introduction of new features
•	Communication and reporting to C-Level stakeholders and business owners
Technologies used: Ahrefs, SimilarWeb, GA4, Yandex Metrika.

Team Lead @ CTDev Ltd., Minsk, Belarus (C.T.Co partnership with Tech Mahindra) - Software Development and IT management for SwissRe (Switzerland) - one of the world’s leading providers in Reinsurance/Insurance business domain.  2019 - 2023 Team Lead -  IT Public Cloud Transformation - CI/CD global infrastructure development. Pipelines for namespace creation and migration for the pool of 14 business applications to AliCloud
•	Jira/Confluence management and task assignment
•	Team coordination
•	Monitoring and control
•	Technical documentation
•	Communication and Reporting to Stakeholders, Portfolio managers and Business clients
Technologies used: Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Helm, Python, Bash, Java apps, SpringBoot, WebSphere, Prometheus, Grafana, AliCloud, Azure etc.

Delivery Manager/Production Operations Support  -  Project portfolios management - Arrangement of alignment, support, monitoring, communication and control of production releases roll-outs for Alicloud and SwissCom clouds for both Life&Health and Property&Causalities portfolios of 25+ applications
•	End-to-End control and support of such delivery flow stages as System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, and Dress Rehearsal
•	Reporting updates on application release plans and facilitating communication between the client’s and vendor’s project teams
•	ServiceNow incident management – End-to-End management of Incidents, User Inquiries, Event Tickets, Alerts, Issue resolution and root cause follow ups
Technologies used: Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.

Data Analyst - Solutions Platform applications portfolio – Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) services development for server log analysis of business applications.
•	Text vectorization
•	Classification
•	Entity recognition
•	Data Engineering of process and IT Infrastructure design
•	Model performance monitoring
•	Dataset preparation
•	Data pipelines development
Technologies used: Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Skipy, Spacy, Keras, Gensim, tf-idf, word2vec, fasttext.

Software Developer  -  Document Service API – intermediate layer REST API between Life&Health business applications and China Document Management System.
•	Development and testing of mapping proxy to transform requests from applications deployed in Swisscom to Alibaba cloud
Technologies used: Kotlin, Java, SpringBoot, Maven, Azure etc.

Anti-Money Laundering Analyst @ Citibank Europe plc., Warsaw, Poland - Multinational private banking services  06.2016 - 09.2016 Compliance department
•	AML risk mitigation through Enhance Due Diligence of the new and existing customers
•	Analysis and optimization of business solutions for Onshore clients (the UK)
•	Managing High Risk clients including Publicly Exposed Persons (PEP)
•	Maintaining business compliance with corporate policies as well as the UK Money Laundering Regime
•	Sanctions review and escalation
Technologies used: Eclipse, Lexis Nexis, Citiscreening, Filenet

## Education

Wang-Yanan Institute for Studies in Economics, Xiamen University, China  2016 - 2018  Master of Science in Economics

Major: Financial Engineering

Kozminski University, Warsaw, Poland  2015 - 2016  Master of Science in Management

Major: Strategic Management

Nottingham Trent University School of Business, the United Kingdom  2015 - 2016  Master of Science in Finance (Erasmus exchange program)

Major: Finance

Bradford University School of Management, the United Kingdom  2014 - 2015  Master of Science in International Business

Major: International Business

Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus  2006 - 2011  Bachelor in International Law

Major: International Private Law

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