Stas Baydakov Email & Phone Number

West Hollywood, California, Us

West Hollywood, California, Us

* Lead product vision and direction for Connected TVs group (14 scrum teams, 200 people)* Manage a team of product manager direct reports* Agile Release Train (ART) Product Lead

Salzburg, Austria, At

Responsibilities:• Lead product initiatives in video playout, voice/AI/innovations, and content syndication verticals• Design and spec out product solutions, coordinate and prioritize delivery roadmaps and establish shared visions across teams• Manage and mentor internal teams and external agencies/contractors• Negotiate, manage, and maintain contracts/budgets totaling $500K annually• Working with counterparts at Apple, Google, Vizio, Samsung to drive partnerships to increase engagement and exclusive exposure - Apple App of the Day, Google O Home Launcher integrationAchievements:• Launched Red Bull TV Alexa skill for multimodal devices (Echo Show family) in US, Germany, UK, Japan, Canada, Australia, and India. One of the first media partners to launch on platform.• Launched Red Bull Alexa skill. Features include product sampling, trivia/FAQs, and podcasts.• Conceptualized and designed automated content delivery feeds service for video, news, and audio catalogs to integrate with Apple, Google, Amazon, Roku, Samsung, HiSense and Xiaomi amongst others. Accounts to 15% of overall traffic to owned platform.• Launched key features on client platforms: Red Bull Account, multi-linear channel experiences, full-scale analytics migration, full 10FT redesign amongst others• Launched first ever Red Bull Alexa app (Red Bull Radio)• Lead efforts improvement of search experience and introduced the first recommendation engine on the platform - video viewership doubled and engagementsaw double-digit growth.

Salzburg, Austria, At

Standing at the intersection of engineering, design, and marketing to differentiate Red Bull TV as a leading global platform that delivers top quality content to the audience around the world. Responsibilities:• Focusing on product development and launch of Red Bull TV across major streaming video platforms designed for both mobile consumption and the living room/10-foot experience. Platforms of focus include internal services API, OTT boxes (Apple TV, Roku), and Smart TVs.• Managing multiple teams of various sizes (15+) of lead and senior developers/PMs/QA analysts to drive development of a high-traffic forward-thinking performant resilient API platform that centralizes client app behavior in a scalable streamlined environmentAchievements:* Architected Akamai CDN setup for network of Red Bull apps, domains and microservices* Doubled videos watched from app's search page by integrating AI-driven suggestion engine* Released first-ever content recommendations system for Red Bull TV

Platform to enhance one's social presence on Instagram and create own personal modeling portfolio. Architected and built out the entire app and cloud infrastructure. Grew, led, and directly developed a team of engineers to develop against product roadmap.Tech stack: highly optimized VueJS PWA with Vuex with module based file structure, MongoDB, Webpack compression/compilation and production S3 deployment, custom nginx gateway to partition traffic across microservices, Node API with JWT token authentication and refresh tokens, static prerender support for SEO, image compression/upload in real-time, pub/sub socket messages, Jest test framework, SASS/pug, Google Tag Manager, BugSnag error reporting, SendGrid email campaigns.

Marina Del Rey, Ca, Us

I came on-board with a goal of improving web presence performance by updating code base to streamline user experience and reduce development time and effort, improving load times, consolidating build process, and integrating best business practices to the engineering team’s daily workflows.• Built, led and directly developed an engineering team of 6 senior engineers• Completely overhauled and refactored front-end source code using OOP and loose coupling best practices• Increased scalability and performance by improving front-end build process and decreasing both compilation time and overall compressed app size• Implemented better business processes with focus on team efficiency and collaboration• Defined and managed product roadmaps to realize business goals and strategies• Lead effort to improve cross team engagement and increased analytics coverage by working with product team to integrate automated marketing solutions and campaigns (full Google Tag Manager architecture, Optimizely tests setup amongs others)• Managed engineering team and participated in screening, interviewing, and debriefing of potential job candidates• Improved Google PageSpeed and Yahoo YSlow scores by up to 30%• Decreased page load times by 50%

New York, Ny, Us

Technical lead on Analytics Insights and Ad Technology Solutions teams. Department was serving all business units and all platforms/devices with a potential of more than 100 different device-configuration combinations each requiring its own instrumentation.• Analyzed technical integrations of analytics and ads across entire digital infrastructure. Advocated optimized streamlined scalable solutions that adhered to industry’s best practices.• Improved overall analytics and ad suites’ performances by updating legacy codebase to utilize latest SDKs. Implemented robust and semantically correct transactional layer code.• Worked closely with consultants to integrate enterprise solutions. Vendors included Adobe, Akamai, Tealium, FreeWheel, DFP amongst others.• Provided technical guidance for app releases on platforms including web, iOS, Android, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, xBox One, xBox 360, AppleTV, Windows 8.• Pushed company’s marketing efforts by architecting and supervising various campaigns that included A/B testing, performance enhancements, email marketing, retargeting.• Helped business manage recommendation engine for content. Communicated technical requirements to vendors and oversaw execution.• Compiled and wrote technical documentation for standard solutions designs for all connected platforms. Continuous effort on improving coding documentation.

Online community CRM platform for lawyers and prospective clients. Led overall technology strategy and development. I architected and built out the web platform and hired, led and directly developed a team of engineers and external contractors to deliver on product roadmap. Defined and managed product roadmaps to realize business goals and strategies. Evaluated the performance of business solutions and identified opportunities for improvement. Deeply involved with all aspects of business growth, forecasting, marketing, data and promotion.

Nürnberg, Bayern, De

Front-end lead on a global first-of-its-kind pilot project for a leading automotive brand. Provided mentorship to junior developer.• Architected and built a single-page app portal for management to oversee overall dealership performance on global/regional levels with in-depth custom chart building capabilities and multi-level problem resolution alerts communication system. Modern browsers, tablet platforms, IE8 and above support utilizing development best practices with progressive enhancement, conditional library loading, and automated builds.• Designed and built a branded experience for customer survey taking. Modern browsers, mobile platforms, IE8 and above support. Fluid experience for all platforms. 100% CSS UI interface for form elements with graceful degradation for legacy browsers.Project stack:Backbone, Marionette, LayoutManager, Underscore, Handlebars, i18n localization, Grunt with NPM and Bower, Yeoman, RequireJs, Modernizr, PureCSS, Mocha w Chai, SinonJS, LiveReload, JSLint, JSHint, asset concatenation/minification, modular design

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Leading high profile projects for a boutique ad agency catering to A-list entertainment industry clients. Mentoring junior developers/designers.

Executive Mba, Business Administration And Management, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Economics

Associate'S Degree, Liberal Arts & Sciences