Viktor Shcherban

CTO & co-founder

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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 2013
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 2013
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 e-commerce store

  • 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
Elementary

Education

Sep 2000 - Jun 2005

Kyiv Polytechnic Institute

bachelor's degree · Computer Science · Kyiv, Ukraine

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