Viktor Shcherban
CTO & Engineering Manager
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.
Languages
Ukrainian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate
Education
Sep 2000 - Jun 2005