Viktor Shcherban

CTO & Engineering Manager

Viktor Shcherban
Berlin, Germany

Erfahrungen

Sept. 2020 - Sept. 2023
3 Jahren 1 Monate
Berlin, Germany

CTO & Co-founder

TimberBase

TimberBase.com is a global marketplace for the digital timber trade.

  • Building an engineering team from scratch to 7 people.
  • Building a timber trading platform vision together with stakeholders
  • Aligning the tech team with the company vision and setting up delivery processes according to ever-changing market requirements. Achieved predictable releases with trustable delivery estimations.
  • Developing roles and levels requirements. Coaching team members to perform and grow.
  • Building healthy engineering habits - agile, code review, git flow.
  • Fostering best practices discussions. Raising the bar for clean architecture that reflects business needs.
  • Tech Stack: TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Redux, NoCode/LowCode, AWS, Git, Postgres, Kotlin, CI/CD, Terraform.
Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2020
3 Jahren 1 Monate
Berlin, Germany

CTO & Co-founder

Uberblick

Uberblick is an internal communication app for hotels.

  • Building the startup from scratch. Starting with 2 co-founders and a PowerPoint presentation Uberblick has grown into 15 people company in 2.5 years.
  • Hiring and growing engineering. Retaining talents.
  • Building and rolling out the first MVP (Web+iOS+Android) in 3 months (from zero to production)
  • Setting up agile processes together with the team.
  • Developing the product roadmap.
  • Tech Stack: JS, Redux, React-Native, Expo, AWS(Elastic Beanstalk, S3, etc), Kotlin, JOOQ, WebSockets, Git, Postgres, Firebase.
Jan. 2014 - Sept. 2017
3 Jahren 9 Monaten
Berlin, Germany

Software Architect

Bonial International Group

  • Joined Bonial as an iOS developer and eventually led a team of iOS, Android, and React Native developers as part of the company's startup incubator initiative.
  • Designing systems and software architecture for a suit of company products (established and experimental)
  • Fostering clean architecture patterns and coding best practices (CI, DDD, code conventions, etc)
  • Interviewing developers
  • Tech Stack: Xcode, Swift, Git, React-Native, VIPER, Redux, AWS, Couchbase, TDD, DI, CI
Juni 2011 - Dez. 2014
2 Jahren 7 Monaten
Kyiv, Ukraine

CTO & Founder

asdCode Mobile Development Agency

  • Managing team of 4 developers (Asana, JIRA)
  • Communication with customers, requirements, estimation, project management
  • Architecture, implementation, and testing
  • Tech Stack: Xcode, Objective-C, Cocoa Touch, Foundation, UIKit, MapKit, Git
Apr. 2010 - Dez. 2014
3 Jahren 9 Monaten
Kyiv, Ukraine

CTO & Co-founder

iStat24 Call-Tracking

  • Managing team of 4 developers
  • Giving ~20 presentations at industry conferences, from 20 to 400 people audiences over two years
  • Customer development, following lean startup principles
  • Team management, project strategy, architecture
  • Introducing Scrum to the team
  • Communicating with customers
  • Tech Stack: AWS, Perl, Ruby (RoR), MySQL/PostgreSQL, Redis, JIRA, Scrum
Juni 2006 - Okt. 2012
6 Jahren 5 Monaten
Kyiv, Ukraine

CTO & Co-founder

Vint.com.ua

  • Singlehandedly created an e-commerce shop company from scratch.
  • Developing website, back-office, internal ERP,
  • hiring and managing team (up to 10 employees).
  • Online marketing, accounting, protecting from DDoS attacks, operations.
  • Creating iOS and Android App.
  • Tech Stack: Xcode, Objective-C, FreeBSD, Apache, Perl, MySQL, Html, CSS
März 2005 - Juni 2006
1 Jahr 4 Monaten
Kyiv, Ukraine

Full-stack Developer

LND Web Agency

  • Developing websites, designing database structure, working closely with the sales department
  • Tech Stack: Perl, MySQL, Apache, JS, Html, Unix.

Zusammenfassung

Over the past 17 years, I've founded and co-founded 5 companies. Four of them are still successfully operational, and the last one was acquired by a NASDAQ-listed U.S. company.

Sprachen

Ukrainisch
Muttersprache
Englisch
Verhandlungssicher
Deutsch
Fortgeschritten

Ausbildung

Sept. 2000 - Juni 2005

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

Bachelor's degree · Computer Science · Kyiv, Ukraine