Oleg Taranov

I'm a Head of DeFi end CeDeFi Crypto Products – dedicated unit to research in the field of decentralized finance (blockchain and cryptocurrencies) and the development of unique chain-agnostic (cross-chain) products and CeDeFi features of web end mobile CEX apps. Initially, I joined the company as a DeFi Frontend (Web3) Team Lead, but later, due to the successful launch of a number of projects, I have led the whole unit and also got a Mobile team on React Native.

My job was to create a new team, new development processes and make a completely new online store for the largest Russian fast fashion manufacturer and reseller. The store had to be multi-lingual, multi-currency, multi-tax and much more stable and ready for high loads due to the company's plans for international growth. I managed to create and get approval of a strategy, plan for hiring and product development, new processes, set up recruiting and bring a couple of employees to the to the company's staff.

My job was to build the best development team and set up processes of hiring, management, and development of web-version and internal products for a new video social network. My team has successfully created Moderation System, Content Management System and many other helpful products. The project was presented as the holder of several cases at the country's largest hackathon "Digital Breakthrough" in 2020, broadcasted on TV. I was a judge and technical expert for this prestigious global competition.

Yandex.Market is the largest marketplace in the country from Tier 1 IT company Yandex. The goal of the project was to transfer the purchase and delivery functions from Beru.ru to Yandex.Market, which was done. I only participated as the lead developer of the project, but I got good experience in the top IT company in the country, learned the processes and good practices.

The goal of the project was to create a mobile and Internet bank for small businesses from scratch – Sfera. I hired a team of 12 front-end and mobile developers, and this team in one year we have successfully created one of the most functional banks in the country, which has received more than one award at competitions and good places in prestigious ratings.

It was a very short project to develop a marketplace of goods in installments for the main page of the bank. I headed a small "star" team that successfully designed, developed and launched the project on time.

I led the development team of mobile and web applications for corporate clients of the bank. The team was quite large (27 people) and had serious performance problems due to the disruption of communications between its members. I fixed the communications issues and cut team in half, resulting in a threefold increase in productivity.

I developed from scratch the Frontend part of an international food wholesale platform. The platform made possible to find partners and conclude deals with them. The project was very promising and was even presented at the state level by the first persons of the country during the Expert Dialogue of the BRICS countries on e-commerce and the Global GS1 International Forum and others, in which I participated as an industry expert. But, unfortunately, the project did not reach traction and eventually closed.

Intermediary service for the delivery of goods from online stores and auctions around the world with transit warehouses in five different countries. This project was interesting because it was a start-up of three students, which suddenly turned out to be very popular and expanded on the run following the growth in demand for its services. It was very interesting to participate in the development and observe from the inside how a young company solves the issues of startup growth.

Activities and societies: Musical head of the university, founder of student government, university promotion activist, member of the KVN team