Vitaly Rann

Head of the Brokers and Caches Division at Cloud.ru, leading the development and enhancement of services such as Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, ClickHouse DBaaS, and other PaaS solutions. My role involves optimizing and scaling the infrastructure to ensure reliability and performance of cloud solutions for our clients. I work on improving the architecture and functionality of services, ensuring high-quality service delivery and meeting client needs with flexible and efficient solutions.

I served as the Chief Product Officer (CPO) at Inferit Cloud, where over the course of a year, I successfully built a new cloud provider from the ground up. This included launching a virtualization platform on top of a selected data center and rolling out key IaaS and PaaS services. Key achievements: - Launched the cloud technical solution within 4 months. - Three months after the technical launch, achieved the first 10 million in revenue, with a pipeline of 82 million and a projected 200 million by year-end. - Acted as interim CEO, overseeing all aspects of business operations, including budget management and performance metrics. - Built a mini data center with 30 server racks. - Hired the entire technical, marketing, sales, and product teams from scratch. -Accelerated time-to-market for DWH, documentation, and automated testing, as well as content creation (UI and PR) using 12 AI tools. - Developed and executed the go-to-market strategy for a new cloud product, selected advertising channels with KPIs for each, and managed the technical development of each product from server infrastructure to XaaS services.

When I worked at the VK Cloud company, I gained extensive experience in managing technical products and an understanding of how large b2b businesses work in general and what their needs are based on. Together with the marketing department and sellers, we conducted several large-scale researches to analyze the users we work for, understand their needs and build a product that they would need and achieve some key business milestones. After a year of thorough research, trials and errors, we created a set of products that met the needs of the market and received an explosive increase of interest in PaaS products via cloud provider: the revenue was increased in 3 times, the churn rate of users decreased by 15%, the SLA of services increased in 1,5 times. We conquered the Russian market. Every seventh large business in Russia uses our cloud solution now. This would not have happened if we had not managed to build an analytics system that allowed us to monitor various behavioral metrics of users and draw conclusions based on the data. Last but definitely not the least, I consider the creation of a strong and friendly team of skilled specialists, from 4 to 40 people, that allowed us to reach high indicators for the business in the shortest possible time. I like sharing all the experiences mentioned above at various conferences to improve the quality of product management in our industry overall.

My experience in Renaissance insurance was limited to managing the scoring product and supporting other solutions related to SAS technology. The product was created from scratch within 1,5 years and turned into a strategic product for the company. Now scoring business processes are used in all key areas of the company. As the product and the team grew, my role changed to CPO and I headed the direction of products, whose main task was to improve sales performance and minimize risks when creating and promoting insurance products of the company, as well as creating marketing activities and communication chains with the client to increase direct sales. However, I consider the main work achievement that I have made the scoring process (and the complex models with which it is produced) understandable, transparent and manageable for the entire company andthe management. It became clear what benefits the scoring system and insurance risk minimization products bring. It is also clearer now how to develop the scoring system so it maximizes the result for the business in the future.

At AGIMA agency, I gained large experience in creating product solutions for the insurance market. My tasks were to research users of insurance products and create a personalized user experience when interacting with the company's digital resources. In a fairly short period of time, we managed to create several unique solutions on the market: the policyholder's mobile applications, implement a full rebranding of the company's web resources, and the policyholder's personal account, as well as provide the customer with the opportunity to monitor the online sales process and evaluate further steps for the development of products quantitatively. Our efforts have been proven valuable for the market as a whole. As a result, the company has been receiving various prizes and awards at specialized competitions 3 years straight after the product was shipped.