One of the top sales & marketing startup advisors in the world. One of the few who has personally both sold $30M+ for startups and managed even more in marketing budgets hands-on. De facto sales ops manager for HubSpot and Salesforce, Google Analytics/Google Tag Manager expert, outbound automation guru. I have both inbound and outbound GTM covered for you.

Formerly Head of Sales for MightyHive, helping it scale from 10 to 150 employees and a $150M acquisition by S4 Capital, personally contributing $20M in sales closing over 300 customers including 12 Fortune 500 firms such as Goldman Sachs, Symantec, US Bank, Nationwide, and Caterpillar. 

Early employee at TalentBin, acquired by Monster.com, and founder of Omnihours, a graduate of Alchemist Accelerator.

Advisor for 7 of the world's top startup accelerators such as Stanford's StartX, Berkeley's SkyDeck, TechStars, and Alchemist Accelerator.

Investor in 30+ & advisor in 15+ startups such as SecurityPal AI, Pareto AI, QuSecure & Amber Bio. 

CEO at Stackmatix where we have scaled over 200 startups via Ads and SEO, including 5 now unicorns (Figma, Kalshi, Spring Health, Invisible Technologies and Eve).

2 startup exits as early employee (MightyHive and TalentBin). 2nd time Founder. Featured on Forbes Next1000.

Matt Pru

Salmon Group Ltd

Building the best credit-led neo-bank in SEA, starting with the Philippines.

Chief Technology Officer

BrightRide — To Rapid Results

BrightRide to Rapid Results: When your company drags, Remove constraints with BrightRide.

BrightRide aggregates digital communications to reveal total waiting times between teams and where you could've saved. Our Slack integration then automatically labels messages based on their impact on overall company output. This method has proven itself for 40 years as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_constraints. BrightRide is bringing it to the information age.

- Identified and verified the business hypothesis, GTM strategy.
- Developed an MVP, Product Beta. Validated on 3 real organizations.
- Handled all corporate and legal matters of the business (C- Corp).
- Concluded that the size of the opportunity is too small to proceed.

Founder & CEO

F I C U S  

- Built a fully-functional MVP (w/ a Front-end engineer).
- Set up IT and basic services, marketing website, lean and cheap.
- Passed accelerators: Alchemist, Stanford d.School Launchpad, Cardinal Ventures.

CTO & Co-Founder → Technical Advisor

dotData | Accelerate Data Science

- Organized eng roadmap and ingress process for my teams.
- Coordinated release timelines for a number of major releases.
- Represented Engineering at company QBRs and Eng all-hands.
- Streamlined communication between Poland, Japan, USA dev sites.
- Helped de-risking acquisition and merger with the contractor team.
- With other eng leaders, Developed comprehensive Eng org metrics.
- Set up an employee lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, perf, engagement.
- Coached managers in interpersonal skills, Agile, coaching.
- Led a cross-team dev productivity group to do 15+ major optimizations, e.g., time to analyze auto test failures—6-8h → 30 min daily.

Director of Engineering

Domino Data Lab

- Managed eng and product aspects of IDM and access control migration to the industry standard for easier integration with customers' infra.
- Started dev productivity track to improve company ability to innovate.
- Added test coverage and git main branch stability metrics.
- Coded support for K8s, major updates of ElasticSearch and MongoDB.

Engineering and Product Manager

Driver

Was leading teams building the Core of the platform providing access to over 3000 cancer clinical trials worldwide based on patient’s medical history and genetic data.

- Led migration and decomposition of the data collection and treatment matching pipeline from the legacy infrastructure, did a lot of hands-on work for that.
- Collaborated w/ the Product team to accelerate patient data extract 5x, clinical trials ingress 20x.
- Supported Consumer and Partner departments for expansion to the China market.

CTO of Core Software

- Designed architecture and led a team to build the Consumer product.
- Worked with the team to advance our stance on type-safety and modularization.
- Built a HIPAA, CLIA/CAP-compliant tool to generate and review molecular reports for cancer.
- Built a microservice library open-sourced​ by the team at https://github.com/driver-oss.

Software Engineering Lead

Sabbatical

- Finished all reading accumulated in previous years.
- Seen how people live and work around the world, visitited places meaningful to me.
- Got an extraordinary ability individual EB-1 green card and moved to the US.

Traveler and a Scholar

Tinkoff Bank

Tinkoff Bank is the​ ​world’s largest fully online bank by customer base​ and​ ​the second largest provider of credit cards in Russia​. During my employment I 

- Built a unified API platform and supervised development of all apps solidifying Tinkoff  as the Best Consumer Digital Bank in the World (Global Finance, 2018), including Mobile Bank (#1 in Russia by Deloitte, etc.) and Traffi c Fines App (>1M signups 1st year, most popular of this type.)
- Built the team, organized dev process and configured all necessary tools later used by 100s of employees and dozens of projects across Tinko ff.
- Promoted Tinko ff employer brand with blog, meetups, competitions.

Vice Head of Software Engineering (Clients) under CIO

- Led development of “The Best Consumer Internet Bank in Russia,” 2x faster with 4x smaller team than the main competitor.
- Led development of the 100%-online customer acquisition flow supporting growth from 1M to 4M issued credit cards and new products.

Head Of Web Development

Qiwi

- Led radical perf and quality upgrades of the payment processing system.
- Built monitoring System for 50K kiosks + dashboard for kiosk owners.

Tech Lead

- Designed and built a next generation API for all client devices.
- Built a distributed multi-factor search for the customers' payments.
- Built full-stack real-time monitoring for the payments processing.
- Automated documents workflow for 103-FZ regulation compliance.

Software Engineer

Vladimir for over a decade has led engineering teams across AI/MLOps, Fintech, and Healthcare.
Often, to outstanding results.

His strengths and passions are,
 - Delivering useful products — product-driven, resourcefulness, work ethic and focus;
 - Aligning teams on priorities — reducing frictions and improving quality;
 - Right tech intuitions from extensive reading and over 25 years of programming experience;
 - Building engineering culture: dev experience, CI, productivity, metrics;
 - Setting up a robust software development and employee lifecycle processes;
 - Empowering, educating and coaching teams.

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