David 'Dima' Kanevsky Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Working on personal projects, including apps, a book, and other creative ideas

London, England, United Kingdom

Building and leading teams of designers, business analysts, and technical leads to develop the best solutions to meet client needs (up to 30 FTEs)Oversaw product deliveries and release and roadmap planning for a portfolio of four products, including documenting requirements and prioritizationsDevelopment of technical proposals for customer C-level executivesClient requirements analysis and technical interpretation, including meetings, workshops, and presentationsIntroduction of best-in-class engineering practices including Automatic Infrastructure Management via K8s, Automated Tests, Code-review, CI/CD, and rapid delivery cyclesLeadership coaching for senior software engineersAchievements:Built the team from scratch to 27+ bunch of self-organized software engineers across multiple teams.Introduced Agile software delivery process (including tools) with rapid (1-week) delivery cyclesIntroduced best in class engineering practices and ensured knowledge transfer to the team

Ukraine

End-to-end product management (vision, requirements, UX, development, testing, support)Supervision of a small, high-functioning technical team that delivered five products (web and mobile apps)Achievements:Brought it up to $1.5m in yearly sales and reached profitability Built the team of up to 50 employees based on the principles of self-management, Semco style and Agile

Consult small and medium software companies on the matters of development efficiency, product design, strategy, and organizational development. Act as interim-CTO, COO, CPO.Set end-to-end product management processes for companies that develop web, mobile, hardware applications in AdTech, Handheld Devices, Media, and Business Apps domains. In particular, I facilitated adjustments to the following:Roles, team structure, set of meetingsTechnology choices, branching and release strategyWork-processes, tooling (Atlassian stack)Provided both mid-and senior-level representatives of the clients with coaching, workshops, and structured training on Agile/ScrumAchievements:Decreased time to market by 50% for a Mobile Lead Generation company with 80 employeesConducted efficiency optimization of the web-marketing department of the leading publicly traded IP telephony company

Kyiv, Ukraine

Leading client engagements, supervising senior consultants in implementation and assisting with strategy, hands-on involvement for coaching/training, and delivery sessions. New business development, networking and promotion of Ciklum Consulting.

Odessa, Ukraine

Set end-to-end product management processes for companies that develop web, mobile, hardware applications in AdTech, Handheld Devices, Media, and Business Apps domains. In particular, I facilitated adjustments to the following:Roles, team structure, set of meetingsTechnology choices, branching and release strategyWork-processes, tooling (Atlassian stack)Provided both mid-and senior-level representatives of the clients with coaching, workshops, and structured training on Agile/ScrumAchievements:1 Conducted Test Process Audit of 30-people Testing Department for TurkTelekom (Ankara, Turkey)2 Held Agile training and certification for the technological spin-off of Deutsche Borse (Berlin, Germany)3 Assessed adherence to best practices in Agile Software development of 6-teams development unit of a German Payment provider (Kyiv, Ukraine)4 Educated Development team of an international mobile device manufacturer on Agile and effective Product Development (Moscow, Russia and Oulu, Finland)5 Conducted Audit of the development process for RR Donnelley to give recommendations for the roll-out of SDET practices

Odessa, Ukraine

Built distributed development centre for ReviMedia (Inc. top 50 rank company) and a remote team for leading Norwegian media company Dagbladet. For this purpose: - Helped to define team composition- Assisted in hiring- Set up Agile Development Process along with Atlassian Development Tools- Coached the team and the management from the client side on effective software development approachesCoached a number of Ciklum Clients on effective communication and remote management of their teams and conducted three 3-months Leadership coaching programs for local Team leaders.I also took part in sales events in Europe and IL with Ciklum Sales Managers with a purpose of educating prospecting clients on effective approaches to distributed development and outsourcing.

Turku

User research, user testing, ethnographic studies and workshops deliveryTeam ManagementAchievements:Developed Lean approach for validating usability issues for software products.Delivered hands-on training on UX to major companies including mid-management of NOKIA