● VP R&D and CTO ● Experienced in the fields of Big data, Machine Learning, AI, SaaS, Cloud, and Microservice architecture in a fast-paced environment. ● Track record of building successful innovative software products with high-quality and high scale. ● Over 20 years of experience in the field of software development management, design and architecture.● Specializes in leading product development teams from concept/ ideation to production in both start-up and International companies. ● Leading large-scale groups (up to 60) of cross-functional teams.● Lead global teams of R&D, Product, QA, DevOps, Tech- Support, NOC, BI and global IT.● Recruiting and developing key talents via mentoring, coaching and long-term career development.● Establishing and managing engineering teams in both local and global multi-sites offshore teams.● Adopting an autonomous Agile Scrum team culture in a multicultural, distributed, fast-growing and rapidly changing environment.● Defining product strategies and goals, optimizing work processes and efficiency among the engineers. ● Building the technological vision for both short/long-term product plans, focusing on system architecture and high-quality delivery.● Vast experience in outlining product roadmaps and quarterly, annual and multi-annual work plans.● Managing Due Diligence and Compliance processes. Extensive experience in all business aspects.● Advisory Board Member in several early stages start-ups ● Implementing new culture, work processes and methodologies within the R&D, based on Agile-Scrum and autonomous Squads. ● Applied automation process, full CI/CD, autotests along with an observability model to achieve quality and stability.● Outlining the roadmap for Finovation products: On-line Trading Platform, CRM, Risk Management and affiliates network.● Established the product's quarterly strategic planning ● Managing the product technology yearly budget.