Pavel Kabir Email & Phone Number

Vila Nova De Gaia, Pt

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

– Owning the tech strategy and co-owning the product strategy of Velixo, an award-winning company that offers ERP reporting solutions for Microsoft Excel. – I am proud to have contributed to our highest satisfaction ratings across the industry. We are the #1 Rated Solution on the Acumatica Marketplace, and have numerous G2 Crowd recognitions: "High Performer", "Best Meets Requirements", "Easiest to do Business With", and "Users Most Likely to Recommend".– Overseeing the development of a new cross-platform product offering, Velixo NX, re-written from the ground-up in lieu of the legacy COM-based solution, using a modern tech stack and a rich back office functionality. Ensuring backwards compatibility and gently managing the sunsetting of the old product. As of today, almost half of our happy users are on the new product, a process we plan to accelerate in 2025.– Proactive product management. Collaboration with ERP vendors and framework authors, owning issues and feature requests to support Velixo's existing and upcoming requirements.– Maintaining high engineering standards: code reviews; SRP / DRY; strict typing rules using Typescript; >98% unit test coverage and introduction of automatic end-to-end tests; automatic code style and formatting tools; continuous integration and delivery with monthly releases. Sustainable tech debt management and introduction of best practices to our mainstream product offering.– Growing and nurturing the R&D team. We went from two to 10 people with a focus on hiring A-players. You wouldn't believe what we're achieving with just ten, and we plan to achieve much more.

Miami, Florida, Us

Miami, Florida, Us

- Oversaw Web and Mobile development of a set of cross-platform apps using a cost-effective React / React Native stack with maximum expertise sharing among the team. Architected and delivered features, bug fixes, and Continuous Integration & Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure. Hands-on development: 30%–50% of the time.- Hand-grown a team of 15 people across two projects: designing job descriptions, interviewing, hiring, and ensuring continuous growth through regular 1–1 meetings and personal mentorship. Implemented Agile and trained the Scrum Master.- Established and documented the Product Management & QA process from the ground up: product backlog management, user stories, functional specifications, test cases, verification procedures, end-to-end and regression testing.- Designed and implemented IT strategies, budgets, and feature roadmaps.- Adopted best development practices from day one: feature branching, nit-pick-free code reviews with automatic styling, Test-Driven Development (TDD) with 100% coverage, integration testing, CI/CD using Docker-based pipelines.- Championed open source contributions of internal infrastructure.- Ensured the accumulation of process, architecture, and style best practices in the internal Knowledge Base.

Limassol, Cy

− Feature development and bug fixing for a cross-platform Mobile currency trading (CFD) app for Android and iOS.− Participating in pro-active technical debt clearance, code and architecture improvement initiatives.Achievements− Wrote numerous solution tests that ensured consistency in localisation resources, IoC registrations, correct disposal of Disposable objects, and common issues in Android layout files.− Reduced responsiveness lags and freezes on Android by removing all blocking inter-thread calls from the code.− Improved the UI layout time by 25% on a performance-critical Android screen by using flat ConstraintLayout instead of nested LinearLayout hierarchies.− Improved the overall performance of iOS application (by up to 10% on some screens) by using one-way MVVM bindings wherever possible.− Introduced and managed the .NET team Developer Knowledge Base – how-to articles, troubleshooting pages, and examples for technical agreements. Distributed monthly digests of new content by e-mail. Key Stuff

Bellevue, Washington, Us

− Developed new application logic to functional specifications, focusing on Acumatica's Finance module.− Fixed bugs in the Finance module and, occassionally, in other modules and the Acumatica Framework.− Provided last level support: conducted root cause analysis of incoming tickets, provided workarounds, implemented logic and data consistency fixes.Achievements− Voted 2016's Best Employee of the Finance Team.− Top bug fixer of the team by the number of issues resolved.− Top contributor and manager of the internal Developer Knowledge Base (~50 articles, ~650 edits).− Oversaw the development of the first automatic performance stress tests within the company. Managed a team of 2 QA Engineers to generate a test database and develop the automatic tests in C# .NET.− Was one of the pioneers in covering the module’s application logic with Unit Tests.− Implemented numerous performance improvements: delivered linear improvements of up to 85%, as well as slashing quadratic asymptotic complexity to linear.Key Stuff

Dmitrov, Moscow Region, Ru

Jewelry Retail Trade Family Firm (Small Business, 2 stores).- Designed and conducted advertising and sales promotion campaigns using print, TV, and street radio media, in intense cooperation with freelance graphics & video designers and outsourced printing companies; - Initiated and oversaw the rebranding process to create a holistic brand image of the company, whilst ensuring consistent usage of colour, logos, typefaces, and maintaining a single “feel” throughout the media.- Tested and implemented pricing strategies with various combinations of margin/discount to find what works well in the target segment; applied psychological pricing and round down (“cents off”) techniques to achieve higher loyalty.- Started collecting and analysing the customer data to know the customers better through a loyalty card renewal programme.- Used the collected contact data to conduct SMS marketing, including personalised “happy birthday" discounts.

Wristwatch Retail Trade (Micro Business, 1 store).Achievements− Created the store concept, design, branding, and positioning from scratch. This involved a lot of design / marketing outsourcing and intense communication with freelancers.− Handled all HRM and training within the company.− Created and managed the company’s Social Media presence. These were public pages to post promos, accept orders and answer customer queries) − Initiated and finalized the 1C:Enterprise ERP system implementation.− Conducted regular business data analysis, adjusting the assortment matrix and optimizing inventory planning to ensure maximum revenue and inventory turnover.Key Stuff

Redmond, Washington, Us

Four-month project job at Microsoft (Russia) on the preparation and support of SSSEV 2011 Summer School. Achievements− Ensured mutual understanding and prompt solutions of last-minute issues by taking on all bridging communication between the organising partners, Microsoft Russia and the Higher School of Economics (see Testimonials).− Saw to the smooth experience for foreign students: timely immigration invitations, resolving registration difficulties arising due to local area restrictions, and full-time on-site student assistance. That included doing translation/interpretation for non-Russian speaking students.− Processed all students’ applications and documents and made e-mail announcements on behalf of the School. Key Stuff

Mobile Development Company. Renowned for the award-winning App In The Air.− Developed the first version of In Flow that appeared in the App Store. It was a free app that enabled people to log their moods daily, analyse the patterns, and receive advice on how to feel happier. − Participated in client-side development of an independent mobile advertising network.Key Stuff

Master Of Science (Msc), E-Business & Innovation

Master Of Science (Msc), Business Informatics

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Informatics

General Education, "A" - Physics & Mathematics Direction