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Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

Gibraltar

• Working closely with multiple stakeholders to shape the product vision and deliver the roadmap.• Building business cases to deliver valuable products that meet the business needs in line with the customer’s needs.• Promoting productive involvement of stakeholders in a project.• Measuring key customer metrics to provide justifications for features to be added to the roadmap.• Analysing impact, identifying risks and operational dependencies. • Creating solution designs, user journeys, business processes and product requirements(functional and non-functional).• Anticipating challenges, balancing business needs and technical or operational limitations.• Ensuring developments are fully compliant in their intended jurisdictions and can be efficiently supported by the operational teams.• Providing the overall direction for all phases of the product development life-cycle, from conception to delivery and KPI analysis.• Securing long-term well-being of the delivered products and features by staying current with compliance regulations, and frequent reviews for optimisation and improvement.

Gibraltar

Leading a cross-functional, self-managed team of high-performance software engineers, QA, and DevOps responsible for BetVictors’ payment platform and PCI DSS compliance.• Delivering products & services in line with the business and technical objectives.• Accountable for the development and well being of the payments ecosystem, including the development of scalable and robust web applications in a distributed microservice environment, as well as, Cloud-based operations intended to provide environment security, resilience and automated processes.• Driving development forward throughout all phases of the project lifecycle.• Identifying opportunities for system improvement.• Evaluating feedback and institute changes as necessary to manage expectations.• Driving the technical direction and growth of the team. • Working closely with product management and cross-functional stakeholders to understand their business objectives and ensure the delivery of successful products.• Representing the technology perspective on business initiatives.• Ensuring staying compliant and current on PCI DSS best practices.• AWS budgeting and cost management.

Budapest, Hungary

Led a cross-functional, self-managed team of software engineers, front-end engineers, devops and QAs, responsible for BetVictors’ Asian payment platform as well as European e-wallets.• Accountable for the development of payment applications and services that met the strategic business needs.• Managed the integration of 3rd party payment providers and guided team development efforts towards successful delivery.• Collaborated with business analysts, software architect and DevOps to plan, design, develop, test, and maintain web applications built in a micro-services architecture.

Budapest, Hungary

Started as a solo front-end developer, later build and led a small agile horizontal team of front-end engineers working on the design and implementation of payment products across all platforms. Responsible for driving the tech vision and steering the team towards a common goal. Accountable for all the aspects of the front-end deliverables and continuous improvement of the cashier.• Accountable for all the aspects of the front-end deliverables and continuous improvement of the cashier.• Worked closely with product owners, business analysts and CX/UX teams to prototype and implement user-facing features.• Partnered cross-functionally with development, iOS and Android teams to ensure the quality of the deliverables.• Hands-on to day-to-day work as a front-end developer in feature teams.

Greece

Worked on a multitude of projects as a contractor providing initial user interface design and HTML/CSS/JS integration based on the requirements, technical specification and creative brief.• Liaised closely with clients to identify requirements and determine strategy.• Designed mock-ups based on brand identity and strategy to effectively convey concepts and messaging.• Structural and design improvements on legacy web products and applications.• Contributed to the creation of new innovative and interactive applications.

Greece

Generated ideas and brought them to life by coordinating a small bare-bones development team focused on building corporate websites. Responsible for requirements definition, creative design, implementation, testing and SEO. • Worked directly with clients to determine project scope and specifications.• Produced prototypes to validate a proposed approach.• Responsible for accomplishing and maintaining the quality of design throughout all phases of a project.

Greece

Designed UIs for clients like Coca Cola, British American Tobacco and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Focused on helping customers identify and build their web identities and footprint with the goal to drive additional users and increase brand value.• Visual designs and wireframes.• HTML/CSS/JS development.• Competitor analysis.• Animated web campaigns.

Bachelor Of Science - Bsc, Internet Product Design

Foundation Degree, Information Technology