Dmitry Timofeev

Project44 Berlin, Germany

Principal Product Manager 2023 - 2024

Senior Product Manager 2021 - 2022

Lead Product Manager 2022 - 2023

Director of Operations 2019-2020

Managed all teams with Product in the centre at Seekmi, leading blue-collar services marketplace
Led automation of newly launched B2B business lines, both customer facing and internal operations
Implemented process improvements across company, from Product and Operations to Accounting and Sales
Planned and laid groundwork for international expansion, which got postponed due to crisis; ran major cost cutting, which brought me to a lot of tough decisions I’ve never faced in my career before
Left behind rich and detailed backlog for product and business operations as well as mid-term product roadmap

Founder & MD 2019-2019

Launched “pay later” venture, WowMelo, from scratch for venture builder Fram
Built an MVP with a lean team I hired and took it to market, winning initial payment partnerships with online stores
Created short-, mid- and long-term product strategy, while maintaining agile culture and vision
Built internal reporting dashboards, managed marketing campaigns with external agency, audited accounting and more

Investment Analyst Intern 2018-2018

Dived into the world of public equity investment at the $20B fund, which popularized ESG as an investment thesis
Created comprehensive investment research on 2 major public companies in 2 months, later presented to fund Partners
Laid groundwork on detailed industry roadmap for cyber security space to support future investment decisions

MBA 2018-2018

Engineering Leader / Security S/W 2015-2017

Gradually moved from Developer to primarily Technical Product Manager role in system security firmware team, protecting 21% of SmartTV market (2016 number)
Led 2 remote development teams (India + Poland), plus managed and mentored single junior localization dev in China
Built team policies for regular code review and rigorous testing, saving $3M in bug bounties alone (2015 vs 2016)
Assembled a coherent SDK, standardized documentation and took it all through the external security audit
Managed internal and external stakeholders (primarily users of security APIs and drivers)

Engineering Leader / GPU Computing 2013-2015

Took on project leadership role with 6 overseas developers on day one after completing sponsored M.Sc. at SNU
Led research & development of an ambitious engineering solution (HEVC video decoding on GPU) from planning to release
Created roadmap for additional future applications and features

M.Sc. Computer Science 2011-2013

Samsung GSP scholarship
Presented complex research to ~1000 attendants with non-math backgrounds at 15th IEEE ICHPCC (2013)
Presented to various audiences of 10-50 attendants at 7 local conferences in Russia and Korea

Researcher / Mathematical Modelling 2010-2011

Worked as a researcher with mathematical modelling focus at the leading aerospace institution in Russia while writing my “Specialist” thesis
Developed mathematical model linking production conditions of airplane engine fan blade to how many flights it can safely last
Integrated research findings into actual airplane engine production process with industry partner who funded the research

M.Sc. Applied Mathematics 2005-2011

Research in aerospace applications
Published research at major European conference on fracture mechanics – 13th CFM (2011)

Nationality: Russian

Languages: Russian (Native), English (Fluent), Korean (Basic)

Computer Languages: C / C++, Python, Flutter/Dart, Pascal, CUDA, OpenCL, Matlab, bash

Technical expertise: Linux kernel, AWS, Security S/W, Algorithms, Simulations

Hobby:

• Mountaineering: conquered highest peaks of Europe and Africa along with multiple lesser mountains in Russia and Korea

• Reading: read 1-2 books a month for the past 20 years

Volunteering:

• Volunteered as summer camp instructor for kids (10-14) in Russia for 3 years during university time in Russia

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