Ivan Panov
Engineering Manager
Experience
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 4 months Germany
Engineering Manager
Commercetools GmbH
- Driving AI transformation of the company.
- Scouting for business areas to be improved by AI.
- Leading development of AI products.
- Driving education of people in AI.
- Organizing of educational AI events.
- Further development of company products.
- Team management.
- Technical leadership.
- Project: E-commerce platform.
- Technical Stack: Gemini, OpenAI assistants, Python, Scala, Mongo, GCP.
Oct 2021 - Jul 2022
10 months Germany
Conversational AI consultant (freelance)
Closr GmbH
- Client: GDP.
- Project: Conversational ecommerce frontend.
- Consulting the company about conversational AI tools.
- Implemented a framework for integrating conversational logic with the business logic.
- Technical Stack: Dialogflow, GCP, Svelte, Typescript.
Jan 2020 - Mar 2022
2 years 3 months Munich, Germany
Principal Architect (Conversational AI)/ Team Lead
Health Care Systems GmbH
- Project: Digital AI assistant for people with heart issues (Role: Architect, 01/2020 – 04/2020).
- Owned of system architecture.
- Owned of the documentation.
- Owned of non-functional requirements (data privacy, security, auditability, observability, healthcare software requirements (DiGA), DevOps).
- Improving the development process (DoD, branching model).
- Technical Stack for this project: Spring Boot, Node.js, Kotlin, Android, Azure, LUIS, Kubernetes.
- Project: Mobile application for people with chronic diseases (Role: Team Lead & Tech Lead, 05/2020 – 10/2020).
- Led a 5 person team (3 internal + 2 external) (hiring, coaching, building of team culture, resolving conflicts, setting and monitoring of OKRs etc.).
- Owned system architecture.
- Owned non-functional requirements (data privacy, security, auditability, observability, healthcare software requirements (DiGA, BSI TR-03161), DevOps).
- Set development process (definition of done, continuous documentation, coding style, branching model, code review criteria, TDD etc.).
- Together with product owner planed team capacity, task priorities, timeline.
- Organised and moderated design discussions.
- Organised team events.
- Technical Stack for this project: Android, AWS, GraphQL, Serverless.
- Project: Telemonitoring system for people with chronic diseases (Role: Engineering Manager, 11/2020 – 12/2021).
- Led a 9 person team (8 internal + 1 external) (hiring, coaching, building of team culture, resolving conflicts, setting and monitoring of OKRs etc.).
- Improved development process (DoD, DoA, SOP).
- Adjusted development process to be compliant with medical software regulations.
- Improved loading time of a page in 80%.
- Introduced the process of technical dept review.
- Improved discussion culture in team.
- Organised team event.
- Technical Stack for this project: Android, Angular, Spring Boot, PHP, C#.
Jan 2018 - Nov 2018
11 months Munich, Germany
Founder & CTO
Brainymenu
- Project: AI Chatbot for restaurants.
- Developed business idea together with a non-technical cofounder.
- Implemented MVP.
- Interviewed potential customers.
- Managed pilot-project (run the project in a restaurant with real users).
- Technical Stack: Node.js, Vue.js, IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Cloud.
Jul 2017 - Dec 2020
2 years 6 months Munich, Germany
Lead Software Engineer Conversational AI
Materna SE
- Project: Service Desk AI Chabot (Client: Major automotive enterprise, Role: Senior Software Engineer/Architect, Consultant, 09/2017 – 10/2018).
- Organised/moderated workshops for customers.
- Contributed to system architecture.
- Led migration from public and private cloud.
- Evaluated implementation technologies.
- Supervised and coached junior developers.
- Evaluated integration with search engine.
- Set up CI/CD.
- Introduced QA for AI components.
- Implemented ETL jobs for training data.
- Technical Stack for this project: IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Watson Discovery, Node.js, React.js, IBM Cloud (CloudFoundry, Continuous Delivery, Monitoring), Python.
- Project: AI Chatbots - presales (Role: Consultant, 05/2018 – 12/2019).
- Led technical workshops for customers.
- Guided clients through features of chatbots & cognitive search.
- Created system architectures from client requirements.
- Estimated project development costs.
- Implemented proof of concepts.
- Participated in offers preparation as a technical expert.
- Technical Stack for this project: IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Watson Discovery, Rasa, Cognigy, Node.js, IBM Cloud, AWS, Google Speech-To-Text/Text-To-Speech, IBM Watson Speech-To-Text/Text-To-Speech.
- Project: DevOps for microservices based system (Client: DAX 30 enterprise, Role: DevOps Engineer, 09/2018 – 03/2019).
- Improved build and deployment process (CI/CD).
- Set up up test, staging and production environments on OpenShift.
- Set up logs aggregation processes.
- Technical Stack for this project: Jenkins, OpenShift, Docker, Kubernetes, EFK.
- Project: Data integration with Apache Kafka (Client: Major automotive enterprise, Role: Senior Software Engineer / DevOps Engineer, 09/2018 – 11/2018).
- Implemented Kafka Connectors.
- Contributed to setting up CI process.
- Technical Stack for this project: Apache Kafka, Java, Docker, Jenkins.
- Project: Sales AI assistant (Client: Online shop, Role: Senior Software Engineer/Architect, 11/2018 – 03/2019).
- Participated in offer preparation as a technical expert.
- Led technical workshop for the customer.
- Implemented proof-of-concepts.
- Created system architecture.
- Set up cloud infrastructure & CI/CD processes.
- Implemented features.
- Technical Stack for this project: IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Cloud, Node.js, Redis, AWS Rekognition.
- Project: AI – business development (Role: Consultant, 01/2019 – 12/2019).
- Organised workshops with sales/business development for identifying of possible AI use-cases adjusting of company portfolio and strategy regarding AI.
- Led developers team by implementing of PoCs.
- Scouted for AI technologies/use-cases.
- Keywords: AI, Cloud.
- Technical Stack for this project: IBM Watson, AWS, Python, Keras, scikit-learn.
- Project: Conversational AI platform (Client: major German bank, Role: Tech Lead, 03/2019 – 12/2019).
- Implemented a prototype for demo (pre-sales).
- Participated in offer preparation as a technical expert.
- Created system architecture.
- Built, coached and scaled the project team (up to 11 developers).
- Established agile development process.
- Owned non-functional requirements.
- Implemented critical pieces of system.
- Technical Stack for this project: Node.js, React, IBM Watson Assistant, IBM Watson Content Hub, IBM Cloud.
May 2014 - Jun 2017
3 years 2 months Munich, Germany
Senior Software Engineer / Team Lead Deputy
Teradata Marketing Applications / Mapp Digital
- Project: SaaS Systeme für Multichannel-Messaging (Primary role: Senior Software Engineer, 05/2014 - 06/2017).
- Software development (design, implementation, refactoring).
- Driving cross-team architecture discussions.
- Dealing with large legacy code base.
- Keywords: SaaS, Cloud.
- Technical Stack for this project: Java, Guice, JPA, REST, SOAP, Hibernate, Postgres, TestNG, JSP, JavaScript, jQuery, Maven, Tomcat, SVN.
- Project: Web-based visual builder of complex selections from recipient base (Role: Frontend Architect, DevOps Engineer, Team Lead Deputy, 01/2015 - 12/2016).
- Reworked frontend architecture to increase development speed and system reliability.
- Took over interim team leader role for 1.5 months.
- Drove cross-team architecture discussions.
- Introduced coding standards and API conventions.
- Did internal tech talks.
- Automated deployment to reduce amount of manual work.
- Organised team events.
- Keywords: SaaS, Cloud.
- Technical Stack for this project: Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Backbone/Marionette, HTML/CSS, Spring Boot, OpenStack, Jenkins, Docker.
May 2013 - Apr 2014
1 year Munich, Germany
Software Engineer
Dotplot GmbH
- Project: Cloud-based data analysis platform (statistics, machine learning, visualisation, reporting).
- Fullstack software development.
- Keywords: SaaS, Cloud.
- Technical Stack: Grail, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, R, MySQL.
Aug 2011 - May 2013
1 year 10 months Darmstadt, Germany
Solution Designer
Deutsche Telekom AG
- Project: Data analysis platform (Data Quality, MDM).
- Worked on design and implementation of data quality platform.
- Mentored students.
- Technical Stack: Pentaho, Java, Python, Oracle.
Nov 2009 - Apr 2010
6 months Hamburg, Germany
Junior Software Engineer (Intern)
Minkle GmbH
- Project: Development of a crowdsourcing portal.
- Fullstack software development.
- Industry: IT.
- Technical Stack: Java, Struts, JavaScript, HTML/CSS, Postgres.
Summary
- Several years of experience leading AI projects (including large projects for well-known companies like Volkswagen, KfW Bank)
- Managed budgets
- Built teams
- Created concepts
- Led development processes
- Coordinated involved companies and departments
- Used AI to optimize business processes
- Gathered problems and ideas from business experts
- Developed proofs of concept (PoCs)
- Led product development
- Created an AI strategy for the company in collaboration with the business development department
- Promoted further training on current AI topics
- Gave internal presentations
- Ran workshops for clients
- Organized an AI hackathon
- Pragmatic leadership style with a strong focus on business needs
- “Do more with less”
- “Maximize learning”: Fast and cost-effective tests of business hypotheses with prototypes before making large investments.
- “Minimalistic Engineering”: Every complexity in a system must be justified by a business need. No overengineering, no “premature optimization”, no unnecessary features, no unjustified expenses.
Languages
Russian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Advanced
Education
Sep 2008 - May 2011
University of Applied Sciences of Leipzig
Master of Engineering · Information and Communications Technology · Leipzig, Germany
Sep 2004 - Jun 2008
Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Sciences
Bachelor of Engineering, Software Engineering · Telecommunication · Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
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