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Homebell – is a Series B stage startup launched in late 2015, currently operating in Germany and Netherlands. Homebell is focussing on home improvement industry, providing its customers guaranteed high quality services carried out by craftsmen from own network.

Smart governance for cities. We make cities smarter by enabling city leadership with data-informed governance solutions. Finalists of GovTech.Pioneers'18 and TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018.

* Closer – a matchmaking app for iPhone. Closer helped meeting new people through friends and notified if matches are close to each other, making the connection trustworthy and playful at the same time. * Defined general strategy and product roadmap. * Interaction design: created wireframes and designs for new features and releases. * Managed the development team of freelancers. * Marketing: strategy, defined key markets, copywriting, set up Facebook ads and worked with PR agency.

Gazeta.ru is one of the first and largest Russian online media founded in 1999. Managed a photo department of four people.

* Luka (now known as Replika.ai) is a social concierge that knows everything about restaurants and talks to you in natural language. A TechCrunch Startup Battlefield participant and Y Combinator W14 company. * Defined product roadmap, came up with new features and improvements. * Managed a multidisciplinary team of 18 employees: editors, backend (Scala) and iOS developers, ML/NLP engineers (Python) and design director. * Planned sprints, ran daily stand ups, created tasks, wrote specifications and weekly release notes. * Acquired and analyzed data using MongoDB, Google Analytics and other tools. * Communicated with end-users, conducted user-research. * Developed marketing and launch strategy. * Presented product to investors and press. * Presented IO at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in London. * Launched beta in Moscow with over 1000 subscriptions within a day. * Launched beta in New York with the media coverage by TechCrunch and The Next Web.

* Afisha is Russia’s leading lifestyle service that provides editorial content, user reviews, event schedules and venue listings in 136 Russian cities with the audience of 10 million monthly users. * Managed several teams of designers and developers * Implemented numerous improvements of afisha.ru website. * Developed all of Afisha’s mobile applications: iPhone, iPad, Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8. These apps got over 2 million downloads total. * Launched new products and special editorial projects. * Integrated ticket reservation system across all platforms. * Worked closely with Marketing and Sales. * Worked with key partners (Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Nokia, Yota Play). * Quarterly planning and monthly reporting to top management.

* Expert Group is a media publishing holding of 1000+ employees. Its main assets are Expert magazine, Russkiy Reporter magazine and Expert TV. * Created general strategy of development for the digital department. * Managed a team of 50 employees: editorial staff, designers, developers, marketing. * Supervised marketing activities. * Defined general strategy, led marketing and product development of the cinema-related UGC service – ilovecinema.ru. * Defined concept and launched an online website for newly launched magazine Russkiy Reporter with its own editorial staff. * Acting Director of Digital projects (February 2009 - July 2009).

* Expert Group has established a strong online media presence in 2006. Expert Online was launched as an independent media unit within the holding. * Participated in launching the service. * Hired a team of photo editors and a photographers. * Worked as a photojournalist. * Led an editorial blog.

Bonativo is Berlin-based online food market that brings seasonal handpicked and handcrafted products from local producers to customers’ doorsteps.

Interactive Art Director at Hyper Island

Philosophy at Russian University of Humanities