Sep 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 8 mos · Remote

• Leader of the private paid community for mobile apps founders.
• 40 companies, 100 members, $200M of total ARR of participating companies
• https://r-founders.notion.site/R-Founders-Mobile-Apps-190e6764ac9a452d8736da9db7d46604

Jul 2021 – Mar 2024 · 2 yrs 8 mos · United States · Hybrid

• Chief Product Officer at Findmykids, a leading child safety app with 100M downloads and 6M monthly active users from 150+ countries.
• Lead a team of 8 product managers, 5 designers, and 5 analysts.
• Drove a 50% YoY revenue growth through continuous A/B testing on monetization, paywalls, onboarding and new features for children's safety and parents' peace of mind.
• Key architect of the product strategy, guiding the app to success in the competitive children's safety market.
• Secured a spot for the company in the 500 Startups accelerator in Japan.
• Implemented agile methodologies to streamline product development and enhance team agility.
• Forged strategic partnerships to broaden the app's impact and reach in the safety tech ecosystem.

Aug 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Executive Producer/CEO in an e-learning agency.
• Managed a team of 20 people working full-time building educational products, including marketing, analytics, partnerships and business automation.
• Annual revenue in 2020 of projects under management is more than $1 500 000

Mar 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos · Kyiv City, Ukraine

Aug 2016 – Dec 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco, California

• Edwin.ai is an English as a Foreign Language (EFL) service powered by AI and delivered by bots, voice assistants, and professional human instructors. It combines effective pedagogical content and the latest technology with on-demand human instructors to offer affordable, personalized 1:1 tutoring to students studying for standardized EFL tests. It aims to disrupt a $40 billion USD market by preparing students for the tests in ⅓ of the time at ⅓ of the cost of private tutoring. Its initial focus is on the Japanese, Korean, and Spanish-speaking markets.
• The company successfully raised funding from Google, Y Combinator, General Catalyst, Maxfield Capital, and others.

Aug 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr · San Francisco, California

• Starter.one is an AI platform that connects Founders with Global Investor Network.
• We've built an algorithm that used data about venture deals in last 15 years to recommend the most suitable venture funds, angels and incubators for early-stage startups seeking for funding. Any company could fill an information about their company/project and funding goals and receive a list of the best matches for them.
• Even we had a small revenue from one-time payments from startups and few memorandums of agreements with few accelerators and incubators across the world who wanted to use us as a sourcing/filtrating platform, we could not find a sustainable business model, and closed the project.
• Technologies: Neo4j, AWS, Angular, Symfony2

Mar 2013 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Key projects:
• Devising and implementation of a unique adaptive learning system that took into account a wide range of users' personal and behavior data and creates individual learning plan for them. Significant key metrics improvements were achieved.
• Full LinguaLeo website redesign with new style, more adaptive markup and a base for future design improvements.
• Launching new landing pages that improved view-to-reg conversion funnel step.
• Tweaks in trainings monetization system which led to pretty good ARPU boost.
• Corporate blog http://corp.lingualeo.com/
• Relaunch of B2B version of LinguaLeo for schools and corporate clients http://lingualeo.com/ru/partnership/corporate
• And a bunch of other smaller projects and improvements.

Mar 2013 – Jul 2016 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• As a Head of Localization I was involved to all product-related processes in LinguaLeo's international branch from initial product translation to support of localized versions of LinguaLeo.
• Key activities and results:
• Product management of successful LinguaLeo's launches in Brazil and Turkey.
• Integration of all localization projects (website, mobile applications, browser extensions, learning courses, etc) into one TMS.
• Design and implementation of smooth and convenient workflow of localization process: from CLI utils for developers to a notifications and QA tools for translators and localization testers.
• Hiring, managing and budgeting translation team, consisting of in-house translators, freelancers and translation agencies in a number of languages.
• Crowdsource localization project which dramatically decreased overall localization costs http://lingualeo.com/localization

Mar 2012 – Sep 2013 · 1 yr 6 mos · Moscow, Russian Federation

• Hiring and helping in everyday work other JS/HTML developers
• Design and implementation of static files build process: CDN, JS packaging with dependency injections, file versioning by it's content
• SASS implementation
• Development of internal JS framework: OOP, modularity, lazy loading, template engine ...
• Development of two major website's section Jungle and Courses
• Development of browser extensions using Kango Framework

Jan 2011 – Nov 2011 · 10 mos · Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation

Oct 2008 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation

• Worked as a web developer, was in touch with these technologies:
• Java: Spring MVC, IceFaces, GWT, JSP, Hibernate ORM
• Browser applets
• LUA, NSIS

Oct 2004 – Oct 2008 · 4 yrs · Novosibirsk Region, Russian Federation