Director Of Engineering
Current
Jun 2023 - Present
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Michael (Misha) Shirman previously worked as Director of Engineering at Mastercontrol and Technical Advisor, Co-founder at Hydrostasis, Inc.. Michael (Misha) Shirman holds Master Of Science Computer Engineering, Multiprocessor Systems from Peter The Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University.
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About Michael (Misha) Shirman
✔ WhyI want the products that I help build to have a significant purpose and a positive meaning. I want to dazzle customers and make their lives better, be it with a consumer-facing or business-facing product. I aspire to bring well-designed, streamlined, and effective products built by talented teams. I look to deliver products and technology that are aligned with customer values and desires, even if barely perceptible, and with business goals and needs.✔ WhatI lead product development and technology via setting or collaborating on the product vision. I translate product vision into foundational architecture and design. I lead existing teams or build new teams to execute on the vision while managing change. I contribute personally in many roles: CTO; product design; technical architecture for software and systems; UX; Data architecture, modeling, and physical implementation; full-stack development; performance tuning, scaling, and optimization; product management; operations and DevOps.✔ HowI carefully listen. I gain domain knowledge. I bring teams together. I design, architect, and help build by seeing deeper and wider as a result setting stage for adaptable long-term solutions. Change is the only constant in our everyday life, so it is in the lifecycle of many products, and adaptable products survive the test of time.Throughout my career, I have designed, built, and managed successful SaaS platforms, and product and service portfolios in Fintech and Payment Processing, Bio-sensor wearable devices and data platforms, Loyalty solutions, e/m-commerce, Affiliate Marketing & Search, Image recognition, and Digital Video distribution to name a few.▪ Product design and management▪ Extensive experience in managing offshore/remote/distributed teams▪ Lean startup/enterprise▪ Design thinking/User-centered design▪ AWS Solution Architecture (certified architect)▪ Serverless development▪ DevOps, CI/CD, infrastructure as code▪ Data and databases (SQL/NoSQL)▪ High volume transactional systems▪ Wearable and IoT▪ Agile, lean▪ UX design
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17 roles · 35 years
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Technical Advisor, Co-Founder
Current
Apr 2023 - Present
Cto, Co-Founder
- Hydrostasis™ aims to be the standard for hydration monitoring. We provide actionable, real-time, and personalized hydration information that impacts performance, health and safety.The company is focused on the OTC.
- Data science and Machine learning working with high resolution bio-signals
- Customer facing mobile cross platform applications (Flutter)
- UX for mobile and web and QA
- Hardware wearable based on near-infrared spectroscopy
- Firmware for the wearable device based on a Nordic MCU and Maxim/AnalogDevices optical front end.I collaborate and support partnerships and initiatives
Dec 2018 - May 2023
Cto (Interim) | Martech
Oct 2017 - Feb 2018
Cto (Interim) | Fintech | Consumer Lending
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Cto | Fintech | Loyalty | Pos | Payments | Business Lending
I lead product design, applications architecture, UX design, engineering, infrastructure, and DevOps in building: Loyalty & lending platform for business, consumer and lending partners. Flexible offers, digital internal cash, frictionless offline payments Restful API, Mobile POS apps for Android and iOS, integration with 3rd party POS systems.
Jul 2014 - Jun 2017
Tech Product Leader
Worked with the founding team on the first generation of Monbaby wearable product.Monbaby is an award-winning baby monitor that snaps onto any article of a child’s clothing, through the patented MonSnap® technology just like a button. Monbaby tracks your baby’s breathing movement, activity level and sleep position, transmitting these important alerts.
Oct 2013 - Nov 2014
Fractional Cto Smartsy | Image Recognition
Smartsy, augments reality by bridging visual objects and actionable data. At the heart of the product there are mobile SDKs for both iOS and Android, and Image recognition backend platform accessible via signed public API. Company aggregated images from variety of top lifestyle and auto magazines. An image snapped from a magazine is received, recognized.
2013 - 2014
~1 yr
Cto Hipswap | Consumer Marketplace | Affiliaite Marketing
Hipswap
Hipswap is an early stage consumer web and mobile company backed by VCs, and building hyper vertical meta-search platform supported by aggregated shopping data. Hipswap became eBay’s super affiliate.
2012 - 2013
~1 yr
Fractional Cto Playitfwd | Film Distribution Platform
Playitfwd
PlayitFWD’s product is a revolutionary viral video distribution and digital gifting platform for transformational films and digital content. Lead product management efforts. Architect and manage AWS cloud infrastructure. Managed development, engineering and UX design.
2011 - 2012
~1 yr
Cto, Co-Founder | Fintech | Payments | Saas
- SaaS Payment Processing Platform (eCheck, Check21/RDC, ACH, and recovery). Responsible for all things technical from platform's inception to national deployment. Solutions were white labeled by Heartland Payment.
- SaaS Payment Processing Platform design, implementation, and operations
- Product design, development, and management
- API design
- Software Engineering
- Database architecture, modeling, and management
Jan 2001 - Oct 2010
Cto | B2B Supply Chain Marketplace | Saas
Post acquisition of OTTE-procurement, supply chain, and Business Process Outsourcing company.Conducted technical due diligence during two M&A transactions.
Jun 2000 - Dec 2001
Cto, Co-Founder | B2B Supply Chain Marketplace | Saas
Ott Inc. (Saas Platform For B2B Supply Chain Management, And B2C E-Commerce)
- SaaS platform, E-Commerce, B2B commerce:OTT was acquired by a public company in 2000.The company is a developer of LiquidAuction (tm), LiquidStore (tm), and LiquidMarketplace (tm). B2B, B2C, E-commerce SaaS platforms.
- Responsible for overall design and architecture of platform and client implementations
- Product Development, Software Engineering and Operations.
- Partnerships with IBM, Cybersource and others.
- Successfully launched number of verticals on OTT platform, including for a fortune 50 pharmaceutical distributor.
1998 - Jan 2001
Architect/Engineer, Co-Founder | Consumer Auction Saas
Coda Software Inc.
The company built one of the first online transactional systems. A developer of online auction engines for dutch, yankee and reverse auctions. The engine was utilized by an early online auction company (zauction), named top 100 website by PC magazine and a featured auction provider for AOL in 1998.http://www.realage.com was one of the early customers.
1997 - Jan 1999
Sr. Software Engineer
Worked in a lead tech role on various mission critical projects
Jan 1993 - Jan 1997
Director Of It
Managed Software Development for MRP II system, and IT/MIS for the investment casting company, supporting four manufacturing facilities, 3 in California and 1 in Mexico.
1992 - 1993
~1 yr
Software Developer
1991 - 1992
~1 yr
3 education records
Michael (Misha) Shirman education
Master Of Science Computer Engineering, Multiprocessor Systems
Peter The Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
Technology Entrepreneurship
Stanford University
Master Of Science Electrical Engineering, Telecom Digital Switching Systems
Saint Petersburg State University Of Telecommunications
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Michael (Misha) Shirman works for MasterControl.
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Michael (Misha) Shirman is listed as Engineering and Product Leader at MasterControl.
Where is Michael (Misha) Shirman based?
Michael (Misha) Shirman is based in San Diego, California, United States while working with MasterControl.
What companies has Michael (Misha) Shirman worked for?
Michael (Misha) Shirman has worked for Mastercontrol, Hydrostasis, Inc., Search Optics, Easypay Finance, and Count Loyalty.
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Michael (Misha) Shirman holds Master Of Science Computer Engineering, Multiprocessor Systems from Peter The Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University.
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