Ekaterina Nikonova

Senior Technical Product Manager @ AXENIX

About

Senior Technical Product Manager based in Berlin with 5+ years in logistics & banking platforms, specialising in API-first products, systems integration, and experimentation. Shipped a Transport Management System MVP in 8 months and scaled it to 10 warehouses, reducing delivery cancellations by 20% and saving €0.5–0.8M/year. Led event-driven integrations (Kafka/RabbitMQ), optimised BPMN (Camunda), and migrated 600K+ SKUs into a single item master. I work end-to-end—discovery, PRDs/specs, RICE/OKRs, A/B testing — and partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data, and Ops to ship on time and move the right KPIs. Skills: Product & Methods: Product strategy, discovery interviews, PRDs/specs, roadmap ownership, RICE/ICE, OKRs/KPIs, GTM & rollouts, stakeholder management, Agile/Scrum, Kanban Experimentation & Analytics: A/B testing (experimentation), funnel/conversion analysis, product analytics (cohorts, funnels), SQL Platforms & Integrations: API design (OpenAPI/Swagger), REST, event-driven architectures, messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), BPMN 2.0 (Camunda), non-functional requirements Tooling: Jira, Confluence, Miro, Figma, Tableau, Kibana, Grafana, Postman, Airflow; Databases: PostgreSQL, Oracle, MongoDB, AWS S3

Country

Germany

City

Berlin

Industry

Information Technology & Services

Skill

IT Integration, Bridges, Product Management, System Architecture, Banking, Russian, English, HTML, Business Analysis, Analytical Skills, Systems Design, Technical Support, XML, Camunda BPM, REST APIs, Postman API, Apache Kafka, Conductor, Jira, Confluence

Experience

Senior Technical Product Manager

AXENIX

2024-3 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Retail (Largest DIY Retailer, RU & CIS) • Shipped TMS MVP in 8 months; scaled to 10 warehouses; reduced delivery cancellations by 20%, saving €0.5–0.8M/year. • Led a cross-functional team (12 engineers + QA/Design/Analytics); owned backlog, PRDs, acceptance criteria, sprint goals. • Instrumented funnels and OKRs; ran pilots/A-B tests to validate shipment workflows; executed staged GTM and training. • Redesigned the goods domain model to handle 1P/3P product types and executed the migration of 600K+ SKUs. Consolidated to a single-source item service with stable APIs, de-duplicating catalogs and simplifying downstream integrations (OMS/WMS/e-commerce). Banking (Top-3 Kazakh Bank) • Mapped customer journeys and coordinated API integrations across 8 systems; aligned Branch Ops/Compliance/IT. • A/B-tested service flows and redesigned processes, cutting in-branch service time by 50% and raising throughput. • Established KPI dashboard for wait time/throughput; codified process changes into runbooks for branch managers.

Technical Product Manager

AXENIX

2022-6 - 2024-3 · 1 yr 10 mos

System Analyst (Technical Product Manager)

Accenture

2020-11 - 2022-6 · 1 yr 8 mos

Moscow, Moscow City, Russia

Banking (Top-3 Russian Bank) • Delivered asynchronous integrations (Kafka/RabbitMQ) to 2 new systems; revised API contracts with 5 existing systems. • Optimized BPMN (Camunda) processes to accelerate credit application workflows; specified UI fixes from user feedback. • Reduced end-to-end application time (p95) via queue tuning and UI simplification; enabled launch of a new digital channel.