Tech Project Manager

Responsibilities:
- Led a cross-functional team of 8 members managing 5 concurrent projects
- Defined requirements in highly uncertain environments by asking the right questions and facilitating clarity
- Balanced business needs and technical constraints to shape implementable solutions
- Presented ideas, user stories, and UX flows to clients in English
- Led architectural discussions, coordinated database schema planning
- Conducted onboarding and performance reviews of team members

Key Achievements:
- Maintained 0% team turnover — all team members stayed and new employees actively requested to join the team.
- Designed and launched 2 out of 5 major projects from scratch, defining requirements in collaboration with the Product Owner and helping prioritize features for maximum business impact.
- Delivered 65 releases in 2024, maintaining on-time delivery despite tight deadlines and evolving requirements.
- Led a 6-month MVP development from zero to production — users started working with the system and providing feedback within the first release cycle.
- Built a release quality tracking dashboard (bug rate, fix rate, release success rate); only 18% of functionality across 5 apps contained defects, despite significant feature growth.
- Mentored a junior backend developer who later became a tech lead, fostering growth and strengthening the team’s technical leadership.
- My responsibilities were later split between 3 roles (PM, Developer, and Tech Lead), highlighting the scope and impact of my individual performance

Project 2: а digital learning platform focused on financial education. Users can access structured video lessons, book online consultations with certified finance experts, and manage their learning through a flexible subscription model.

Responsibilities:
- CI/CD process to deliver software
- Planned application architecture based on legacy code
- Created comprehensive requirements for development tasks
- Integrated third-party tools (Stripe, Twilio, AWS, Plaid, Vimeo)
- Authored and maintained API documentation (Swagger)

Key Project Highlights:
-Promoted from mid-level developer to team lead within 6 months due to proactive mindset and valuable contributions to product and technical decisions.

Project 1: а software solution for an oil production company designed to monitor extraction volumes, track equipment reliability, and forecast operational stability.
Responsibilities:
- Analyzed requirements and proposed solutions
- Implemented core features and contributed to codebase
- Performed functional testing and validated implemented logic

Key Project Highlights:
- Applied strong analytical skills to uncover a flaw in the business logic and mathematical model early in the development process, avoiding substantial financial loss. My intervention saved the company tens of thousands of dollars.

Project “Bruto”: A browser-accessible navigation platform for marine vessels, featuring an integrated system for purchasing nautical charts and managing subscription-based access to updated map data

Responsibilities:
- Designed and developed backend services (.NET stack)
- Collaborated closely with PO to identify core business needs
- Built data-heavy systems requiring scalable architecture
- Authored and maintained API documentation (Swagger)
- Integrated third-party Amazon tools (AWS S3, AWS SQ)

Learned about databases (Oracle, MS SQL, MongoDB), version control systems (Git), software development lifecycles, architectural patterns (microservices and monoliths), scaling approaches (vertical and horizontal scaling), and Unix-based systems.

Programming Languages: C#, C, C++, Python, PHP, Java, JavaScript, HTML/CSS