Ruslan Yalovenko

Strategy to Scale: Building Intelligent Tech Products

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Experienced in agile software product development, engineering management and software architecture. Contributed to each part of Web Application lifecycle, including Backend, Datastore, Frontend and Mobile apps planning, development, releasing and support. In the last few years improved strategic planning skills together with transforming strategy into tactical initiatives. Involved in Product Management. - Tech / Product strategy - Agile Product and Software development (Dual-track Agile, Design Thinking, Scrum, Kanban, Extreme programming, etc.), 8+ years - Engineering management / leadership experience, 5+ years - Software Design / Architecture, DDD (Strategic + Tactical), BDD, microservices, 5+ years - Java / Kotlin / Scala Backend developer, 10+ years of experience - ML / AI, around 1 year - Python, around 1 year - Frontend (React, TypeScript), 2+ years - US market experience, 5+ years - Product and outcome oriented - Strong ownership

Experience

  • Head of Product & Engineering at Planet2050
    Jul 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 1 mo

    Building a scalable product ecosystem that turns raw climate projects into distributed, investable assets. At Planet2050, we are building new digital infrastructure for Carbon Markets, Project Developers and Climate Communities. We enable transparent, verifiable and accountable environmental assets such as Carbon and Biodiversity Credits to be issued and exchanged within value chains (Scope 3) and beyond (Carbon Markets).

  • Head of Engineering at 60beans
    Feb 2023 - Aug 2024 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Highlights: - With a team of engineers rebuilt the online marketplace so that the customer conversion rate was 3 times improved within the first weeks after launch - Built POC for AI (LLM trained on custom data) which could sell products to try to increase conversion and retention rate Responsibilities: - Tech strategy - Pairing with CPO to transform Tech and Product strategy into tactical initiatives - Engineering management - Software architecture - Product / Tech analytics tracking - Stakeholders (Ops, Marketing) management - Full stack development - Built custom AI assistant

  • Senior Full Stack Software Engineer (Technical Lead) at iris-GmbH infrared & intelligent sensors
    Oct 2021 - Feb 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

    Highlights: - Designed device management system for IoT sensors. With a team of engineers built and integrated into existing infrastructure MVP for a system core domain to improve customer onboarding and to support further product development. Cloud based SaaS for managing and monitoring sensors. Responsibilities: - Taking part in collecting / processing requirements - Strategic planning - System Architecture - Tech tactical design - Team mentoring - Development (Backend, IaC, Frontend) - Stakeholder management Backend: - Kotlin, Spring Boot, Postgres, Cassandra, MQTT Frontend Tech: - Typescript, React, MobX, Material UI DevOps: - AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, HashiCorp Vault

  • Backend Engineer at HelloFresh
    Mar 2021 - Sep 2021 · 7 mos

    Supply Chain Management, ordering. Tech: - Kotlin - Postgres - Kafka - Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, Concourse - AWS, Terraform, Aiven

  • Team Lead / Tech Lead at Customertimes Corp
    Jul 2014 - Mar 2021 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    Highlights: - Scaled multiple teams by hiring Java backend developers so that multiple clients got performance improvement - Built appointment scheduler for medical service company which was used for thousands vaccination and test appointments during Covid - Developed AI supported (NLP) solution for identifying mental state of a patient so that user conversion and retention were improved - Developed smart voice support which served multiple clients to engage with their customers - As a tech consultant worked with nearly 10 companies (startups, S / M / L enterprises) mostly from the US. Played roles of full stack engineer, tech / team lead, EM and software architect. 1. IQVIA. Scala / React Developer Product: Medical document management system Team: New York, USA (remote) Description: Clinical trial management. Promotional material document management. Process: Self-managing agile team working with Scrum. Tasks: Backend development Front end development Deployment scripts Tech: Scala ( custom framework ) DB: PostgreSQL, PL/pgSQL React.js, Typescript 2. mHealthCoach. Java Team Lead / Senior Java Developer. Type: Startup (later Scaleup) Product: Patient management system. Appointment scheduler. Team: Chicago, USA - Kiev, Ukraine Description: System provides patient management for medical facility managers and appointment scheduler for users. Patient support with programmable SMS, programmable voice. Smart (AI, NLP) support. Different kinds of challenges for users. Reporting. Tasks: * Outsource team management * * Mentoring * * Scrum Master for Scrum events * * 1-on-1 * * Hiring process * Communication with customer * * Collecting and processing requirements * * Designing system * Research + integration: * * Programmable voice, SMS setup (Twilio) * * Data transformation for reports (Talend ETL) * * Smart support with AI/ML Doc2Vec, Word2Vec processing * * Medical data transfer (HL7, NCPDP format, Mirth) Check CV for more.