"It is impossible to conduct two disciplines: one for the workers, the other for the nobles. There should be one discipline. " (c) Joseph Stalin, XIII Conference of the RCP (b)
Greetings! I'm Viktor Vanichkov, and I'm delighted by your interest.
With 11 years of experience in IT, my journey has taken me through various roles, from junior developer to project manager, and across diverse corporate cultures, from large government corporations to agile startups. My true passion revolves around technology, particularly AI, Web3 and Science Fiction, where I find endless fascination and inspiration.
I'm eager to connect with fellow enthusiasts who share these interests and explore the exciting possibilities they offer. Let's dive into engaging conversations and journey together into the world of technology, AI, Web3 and Science Fiction!
Viktor Vanichkov
Experience
Tribe Leader - Soramitsu Labs 12.2021-...
Open-source Decentralised Exchange in Klaytn chain. Web3 DeFi project (available in testnet https://dex.baobab.klaytn.net)
I started green-field project (startup idea). It is a AI-based product in AEC/FM field. During 2 years I with team made several pivots because of technologies and business-model. We created a proof-concept and approved that technologies allow to create a product. Right now we are on way to publish MVP in open beta-testing..
Senior analyst - RTC Soft Labs 08.2017-10.2018
I was a part of team who a developed of huge product which is United biometric system (UBS) by Rostelecom. As a result of my work is integration of the UBS with goverment system interagency electronic interaction (SMEV 3.0).
With a team (3 persons) we developed automated system of testing for central bank of Russia.As a results of my works . were several major versions of product, which were integrated in main process of software quality assurance. I was responsible for several stages of SDLC (requirements engineering, UI-testing development, help desk, devops).
Education
PhD student, Innopolis University 2023-...
Research focus is on federated reinforcement learning with usage in Smart City or another applicable domain area
Tracker Academy - Fund Mestorogdenie 2021
Growth hacking for entrepreneurs and startups.
School of corparative tracking - Accelerator IIDF 2020
Basis of growth hacking and all methods how to do it in corporations and startups.
eMBA Lincoln University 2020
Module Marketing, Leadership & HR
Project management in companies (based on standard PMI PMBOK Guide 6th Edition) 2018
Course was about a project management based on PMI PMBOK.
Master of science in informational technologies - Software engineering - Innopolis University 2017
Software engineering master program licensed by Carnegie-Mellon University.
Master of applied mathematics and informatics - KNRTU-KAI named after A.N. Tupolev 2013
Master program was connected to applied mathematics and informatics with deep knowledge of stochastic processes, game theory, math.analysis and calculus.
Bachelor of applied mathematics and informatics - KNRTU-KAI named after A.N. Tupolev 2011
Bachelor program was connected to applied mathematics and informatics with deep knowledge of math modeling, optimization problems, statistics and probability theory.
Experience & skills
Product development
Using methods User research based on customer development, JBTD-interviews; Unit-economy analysis and calculating it for product; Work process based on HADI-cycles for checking hypothesis.
I have experience work with different productivity tools for team work: Youtrack, Confluence, Github, Jira, Miro, Figma, Google Drive, etc.
Project management
Defining the scope of project and time boxing within limitation of budget is mine constant work. Also it is a creating the backlog, build sprints, prioritizing and decomposing tasks
Building the culture
Organization the meeting for 1-1 within the company for giving and taking feedback, starting the process of perfomance review for all
Focus
Help to product team keep focusing on the main idea and deliver the features that improve the product.