Dimitar Kazakov Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Riyadh, Riyadh, Sa

Riyadh, Riyadh, Sa

𝙈𝙤𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙚 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨, 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙏𝙚𝙘𝙝, 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙉𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚, 𝙁𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙗𝙖𝙨𝙚, 𝙉𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙅𝙎, 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨・Leading the architecture and implementation of Cardeo's credit and lending technology・Defined Cardeo's product road map as well as detailed budget for the technical resources required to deliver it・Took active part in the technical components of Cardeo's FCA application/s including cyber-security, data protection, disaster recovery and handling incidents and complaints・Contributing to Cardeo's business strategy development・Established an in-house recruitment process for acquiring technical talent

London, London, Gb

𝙚-𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙚 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙉𝙤𝙙𝙚𝙅𝙎, 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩, 𝘼𝙯𝙪𝙧𝙚, 𝙈𝙞𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙚𝙨, 𝙍𝙚𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙚 𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 • Developed and rolled out the company product roadmap for 2020. • Built the company’s first engineering department in a fully remote environment. • Implemented and executed a fast-track release plan allowing the first commercial product release to be achieved within 120 days after the start of the project.• Lead the end-to-end implementation of a bespoke, feature rich e-commerce platform managing over 3 million products and hosting over 500,000 subscribed users to date.

London, England, Gb

𝙎𝙏𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙀𝙂𝙄𝘾 ・ As a company founder took an active part in the strategic decisions that defined Swogo’s rapid growth.・ Owned the Swogo Product Roadmap gathering insights, defining the short and long term company services portfolio. ・ Positioned Swogo for global expansion with current presence in over 25 countries.・ Expanded Swogo across multiple channels web, email, api (mobile, in-store).・ Took an active role in client partnership innovation: Mediamarkt, Walmart, Best Buy, BT.𝙏𝙀𝘾𝙃𝙉𝙄𝘾𝘼𝙇・ AWS, NodeJS, MongoDB・ Defined and built the foundational Intellectual Property of Swogo. The recommendation algorithm delivers the highest possible relevancy of product cross-sell recommendations. It has gained industry recognition and positioned Swogo as market leader.・ Designed the Swogo technical architecture for maintainability and fast prototyping of new features. This accellerated the feature release and expanded the Product Roadmap.・ Recommendations at scale - Organised Swogo services architecture to allow global expansion, delivering over 4 billion unique recommendations in 2019 across 25 countries and 50+ large online retailers.・ Real-time at scale - Introduced first-on-the-market client integration allowing price and stock updates across hundreds of millions of products in real-time.𝙇𝙀𝘼𝘿𝙀𝙍𝙎𝙃𝙄𝙋・ Global Client Exposure - Personally led the integration process with some of the worlds largest retailers and brands: Mediamarkt, BestBuy, Walmart, Decathlon, Sephora, Toys’r’Us, John Lewis, Elcorte Ingles.・ Client Partnership - Took active role in collaborating with a number of major retailers (Mediamarkt, Walmart, Best Buy, BT ) in building the next generation of products and services to launch in 2020.・ Built and personally trained Swogo’s first engineering team.・ Grew the team to over 10 highly skilled and experienced engineers.・ Built a second nearshore engineering team in Lisbon.

London, Gb

Startupbootcamp (or “SBC”) is a three month business startup acceleration program that runs quarterly during the year for startups, entrepreneurs and small businesses across Europe to get ready for funding, launching and scaling to European and global markets. By locating startup teams to one of Startupbootcamp’s program offices in London, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Dublin, Madrid, Haifa and Berlin, the accelerator focuses on exposing and connecting startups to an expanding community of key mentors and advisors that provide expertise from a multitude of verticals, industries and regions vital in growing a business.

Willemstad, Cw

𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝘼𝙜𝙞𝙡𝙚, 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙢, 𝙆𝙖𝙣𝙗𝙖𝙣・ Managed the agile software development process of several distributed teams. ・ Applied Scrum development methodology for iterative software development. ・ Applied Kanban to address the unpredictable nature of the work in technical support and integrations teams.

London, England, Gb

𝙎𝙤𝙛𝙩𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙘𝙚𝙨𝙨, 𝘼𝙜𝙞𝙡𝙚, 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙪𝙢, 𝙆𝙖𝙣𝙗𝙖𝙣・ In the role of Scrummaster for two engineering teams, one in London and one in Tallinn (Estonia), improved transparency and predictability of the deliverable software. Reduced conflicts between the teams. ・ Gained valuable experience managing offshore teams both remotely and on site.

Manchester, Gb

𝙋𝙃𝙋, 𝙎𝙌𝙇, 𝙎𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙎𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙨 𝙎𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙮・ Built the first publicly version of the risk assessment tool Red Flag Alert, migrating from legacy PHP / SQL implementation. https://www.redflagalert.com・ Managed multiple corporate stakeholders to the successful delivery of the project, against exceptionally tight deadlines.

.𝙉𝙀𝙏, 𝙈𝙎 𝙎𝙌𝙇 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 ・ Built cross platform solution for inventory management bridging Adobe Flash and Microsoft .NET / SQL technology frameworks. The solution is deployed widely across the UK and Europe.

Manchester, England, Gb

.𝙉𝙀𝙏, 𝘾++,𝘾#, 𝙈𝙎 𝙎𝙌𝙇 𝙎𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙚𝙧 ・ Built a set of industry specific software solutions for the oil industry in C++ and C#. ・ First exposure to start-up environment and rapid product development.

Redmond, Washington, Us

𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙩 𝙀𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙢, 𝙀𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙈𝙖𝙣𝙖𝙜𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩, 𝙋𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙞𝙘 𝙎𝙥𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜・ In year one was recognised for best performance in reaching targets and deliverables among 20 other Microsoft consultants. ・Top position was held for 3 years until leaving Microsoft at the end of 2006