Viktor Shcherban - CTO & Engineering Manager

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Sep 2020 - Sep 2023

3 years 1 month

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.

Sep 2017 - Sep 2020

3 years 1 month

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 - Sep 2017

3 years 9 months

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

Jun 2011 - Dec 2014

2 years 7 months

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 - Dec 2014

3 years 9 months

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

Jun 2006 - Oct 2012

6 years 5 months

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

Mar 2005 - Jun 2006

1 year 4 months

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.

Summary

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.