Viktor Pikaev
Department and Team Leadership | Project and Product Management
About Me
More than 9 years of experience in management. Led small development teams (3-7 people) as a team lead and entire departments of up to 40 employees as CTO. Experienced in managing fully remote, hybrid, multinational, and multicultural teams. Built processes and teams from scratch as well as improved existing ones.
I also have experience as a crisis manager, having been hired for two years to fix a failing development department. I established a predictable and robust development process with stable time-to-market and achieved the company’s OKRs.
Skills
# Project management
# Product ownership
# Risk management
# Stakeholder Management
# Team leadership and People development (up to 40 people)
# Workflow and process optimisation
# Performance management
Contacts
info@haru-atari.com
@haruatari
Work Experience
Team Lead, Senior Developer
Boozt Fasion AB
October 2022 — The current time
Lead a team of 5: hands-on development, architectural decisions, introduced Scrum and planning. Fostered team growth and professional development.
Head of Development, Crisis Manager
Saturn
July 2021 — October 2022
Established development processes from scratch (planning, QA, documentation, release management, fault tolerance, growth strategy).
Delivered stable releases and ensured sustainable development.
Chief Technology Officer
Ooogr
October 2018 — July 2021
Led the development department of an eSports startup. Managed five internal teams and four contractors. Communicated with business stakeholders, investors, and partners. Planned medium- and long-term technical strategy.
Designed high-level system architecture and server cluster architecture. Established high-level processes in the department and supported team leads in organising their work.
Senior Developer, System Analyst
Green Rabbit
September 2014 — February 2019
Developed backend for a SaSS platform and a tradespeople marketplace. In addition, was involved in analysis of business processes and designing architecture for them.
Worked with highload — the exchange handles more than 30 000 000 requests a day.
Also developed a console application on Golang for management of server-side part of SaaS platform inside an isolated server.
System Architect, Team Lead
Bauhau
October 2013 — September 2014
Managed the entire development. Analysed business requirements, set and coordinated tasks for development teams. Designed the application architecture and infrastructure.
In addition, was heavily involved in the development process itself. Participated in both backend and frontend development.
Developed a tradespeople marketplace (a product itself) and a CRM system for it.
Lead Developer, Business Analyst
Tander
September 2012 — October 2013
Led a development team of 5, managing task estimation and coordination.
Product owner of an ERP system, HRM platform, and financial analysis solutions.
Developer
Freelance
July 2008 — September 2012
Project-based work: developed parsers, websites, and simple desktop applications.