Oksana Gartvich Email & Phone Number

California, United States

🔸Provide strategic guidance on key technical decisions, product roadmaps, and scaling operations to align with company goals.🔸Participate in quarterly strategic meetings and other engagements as required to ensure informed decision-making.🔸Leverage expertise in technical leadership and strategic vision to support the organization's growth and innovation.

Driving the development and launch of an AI-powered MVP by leading a team of agile developers, streamlining processes, and providing strategic technical direction to align with business goals and mission success.

I’ve been working as a Senior Adviser (Freelance) / Fractional CTO remotely, offering strategic technology leadership to startups. My focus is on guiding founders through technology strategy, product development, and scaling, ensuring their technology roadmaps align with business objectives to drive sustainable growth. I help these startups navigate development, rapid iteration, and manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch.🔸 Support the founders of a startup find the best product-market fit and make sure that their technology plans were in line with their growth goals.🔸 Assist with agile methods and automation, which cut down on time to market and raised product quality throughout the entire development process.🔸 Manage the whole lifecycle of a product, making sure it went smoothly from scalable to market-ready goods.

As the Founder, CEO, and CTO of Kind Hearts Labs LLC, I lead a mission-driven SaaS startup focused on developing innovative solutions that inspire positive social behavior change. Operating as a one-man team, I wear multiple hats across business functions—juggling everything from business development and marketing to product strategy, design, and engineering. I manage the entire product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, ensuring seamless execution. This involves hands-on leadership in strategic planning, architecture design, and technical implementation, while also driving go-to-market strategies, customer acquisition efforts, and operational management to ensure sustainable growth and impact.🔸 Built and lead a tech company, using AI and no-code tools to quickly create innovative solutions that drive social behavior change and easily adapt to market demands.🔸 Manage the complete product lifecycle, from initial concept and design to deployment and market testing🔸 Develop scalable and adaptable software solutions that align with immediate and future market needs🔸 Maximize user feedback and emerging trends to optimize product strategies and support long-term scalability🔸 Streamline end-to-end development process to enhance productivity and reduce launch times🔸 Cultivate a vision for continuous product innovation, aligning technical development with business goals for growth🔸 Position the startup for long-term market success by focusing on innovation, rapid iteration, and customer-focused solutions

Pacifica, California, Us

As a seasoned leader in software engineering, my focus is on building high-performing teams, driving technical innovations, optimizing processes, and enhancing customer satisfaction through strategic initiatives.𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗟𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽:🔸 Spearheaded and led a high-performing remote engineering team, cultivating a positive culture that achieved 100% employee satisfaction and retention.🔸 Managed performance reviews, definition of goals, and delivery of training for the development of future leaders.𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝗽𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲:🔸 Led the turnaround of a previously struggling flagship application by addressing 70% of technical debt, ensuring 100% uptime, improving product reliability, and strengthening customer trust.🔸 Drove technical innovations that reduced system downtime by 25%, saving millions in revenue.🔸 Implemented a security enhancement process, which achieved 100% vulnerability resolution.🔸 Navigated multiple crises to restore 100% customer satisfaction, avoiding $50K in potential revenue losses.🔸 Provided leadership on major architectural and technological decisions in accordance with long-term business goals.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:🔸 Strategically planned product roadmaps to align with business goals, maximize productivity, and ensure 100% on-time delivery.🔸 Improved Scrum team efficiency by 25% through optimization of QA and support processes.🔸 Introduced technical documentation, continuous integration (CI), and automation frameworks, reducing time-to-market by 30%.🔸 Refined SDLC and Agile methodologies, cutting project delays by 35% and improving deliverable quality by 30%.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁 & 𝗖𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀:🔸 Built and nurtured customer partnerships, boosting retention by 50%.🔸 Increased customer satisfaction by 20% using expert-level support strategies and comprehensive MSSQL Server documentation.🔸 Chaired team-building initiatives, which led to a 20% productivity increase.

Foster City, California, Us

In this role in a core group of Visa's PPD division, I specialized in developing critical software solutions, implementing financial regulations, and streamlining processes to enhance productivity. This led to the design and deployment of innovative utilities, development of comprehensive documentation, and improvement of system security.𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗙𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:🔸 Created and documented critical features for a clearing and settlement Windows application (C#, C++, C).🔸 Led the implementation of 20+ domestic financial rules for Argentina and Chile, enabling seamless service delivery and expanding market presence in key regions.🔸 Adapted Visa's core financial product to support Venezuela’s redenomination, ensuring uninterrupted processing of 100,000+ daily transactions.🔸 Developed and deployed multi-country currency support by implementing code for a joint currency coalition across three countries.🔸 Created a custom utility to generate index text files from 2,000+ documents, streamlining historical research processes.𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗚𝗮𝗶𝗻𝘀:🔸 Spearheaded the creation of a WIKI documentation portal, reducing maintenance effort by 70% and reallocating engineering resources to high-priority projects.🔸 Reduced production issues by launching and contributing to a regression testing initiative, including the development of an 80-page test plan documenting 100+ screens with entity-based testing approaches.🔸 Revamped error-handling middleware, decreasing application failures by 75%, significantly improving error messaging.𝗦𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘁𝘆 & 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗢𝗽𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻:🔸 Resolved high-severity legacy security vulnerabilities by researching outdated systems, validating them as false positives, and presenting findings to security engineers.

Mountain View, Wy, Us

I played a crucial role in designing and developing an MVP for a cross-platform application aimed at both web and mobile users. I led the technical direction of the project, from selecting the optimal tech stack to building the necessary infrastructure on AWS. My focus was on creating a scalable and secure foundation for future growth while ensuring that the MVP aligned with the company's strategic goals.🔸 Researched, planned, and designed an MVP for a cross-platform web and mobile application🔸 Selected the ideal tech stack to ensure optimal performance and scalability🔸 Built the AWS infrastructure, ensuring reliability and security for application deployment

As the founder of Natureness, I developed an innovative line of organic skincare and haircare products, overseeing every aspect of the business. From product formulation to packaging design and e-commerce management, I successfully launched and maintained an online retail presence while managing the manufacturing and fulfillment processes.🔸 Launched a successful business leveraging a lifelong passion for medicinal plants and knowledge from various ancient cultures.🔸 Developed innovative organic skincare and haircare formulations that cater to the demand for natural, high-quality ingredients.🔸 Designed all packaging and labels to align with the brand’s vision, ensuring a visually appealing and cohesive product presentation.🔸 Successfully launched and managed e-commerce websites, driving online sales and enhancing customer engagement.🔸 Oversaw the entire product lifecycle, from manufacturing to packaging and shipping, ensuring a seamless customer experience.

Los Altos Hills, Ca, Us

As a volunteer web developer at Pandemonium Aviaries, I was responsible for developing and maintaining the organization's website. I worked on creating a user-friendly design that reflected the organization's mission while ensuring the site's functionality and performance were optimized for their needs.🔸 Designed, developed, and maintained the organization’s website, improving their online presence🔸 Focused on enhancing user experience and functionality to drive engagement🔸 Ensured the website’s performance and security were optimized

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

Designed and developed software applications by successfully converting business requirements into easily maintainable software applications (C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript), authored all required documents for SDLC.Surpassed client expectations and received recognition for "best IT project", achieving the highest satisfaction rating at 95%.Led a process of choosing the best workflow development software for the division, streamlined business processes by automating workflows programmed in C# and K2 Studio.

Richardson, Texas, Us

Developed software in C#, APS.NET, Java and components for SharePoint. Designed and developed workflow systems (C#). Designed and developed Outlook plugin (C#, WPF). Developed customized SharePoint Advanced Search(C#).Initiated and led the development of a Knowledge Share resource for 20 engineers, increasing teamproductivity by 20% and streamlining code and tool reuse.Researched and successfully presented the Software Usability (UX) playbook - "Why Software Sucks" to the team.Successfully led, mentored and guided a team of 2 interns, resulting in 2 permanent job offers, contributing to the growth and success of the software development team.

Petach Tikva, Il

Provided software design, development, digital transformation and automated process software developmentservices for the diverse clientele of the company (C#, K2, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL, PL/SQL).Streamlined customer service processes by developing an application with Microsoft open source Customer Care Framework (C#, Win forms, Multithreading), resulting in a 50% decrease in response time for a major credit card company.For 9 month was full time DBA, developing large MSSQL stored procedures/SSIS jobs at Israeli largest Bank -Hapoalim.

Rosh Haayin, Il

Developed software applications, software components for SharePoint & Microsoft Project Server (C#, ASP, JavaScript, SQL). Administrated office network. Handled System Admin duties internally.Successfully owned and maintained an ASP website of a public transportation company.

I was managing everything related to IT: supporting existing hardware and software, working with vendors on issues and hardware replacements, managing public computer room, security and safety of devices, establishing schedule for student groups and supervisors shifts, training, making sure that at any given time there was a high asset availability

Chief Technology Officer Program

Executive Mba, Information Technology

Data Science And Machine Learning: Making Data Driven Decisions

Mastering Design Thinking

Ba, Computer Science, Major In Software Systems