Hi there and welcome!
I'm Dmitry Filippov and I'm a product management and marketing expert living in Berlin, Germany. I'm passionate about building and marketing software solutions that satisfy people's needs and achieve product/market fit. I have extensive experience for over fifteen years across product management, product marketing and software development in organizations of different sizes. I love to focus on problem-solving with measurable outcomes.
About
Dmitry Filippov is a seasoned product leader with extensive experience across product management, product marketing, and software development. Currently Dmitry is VP of Product at Kuda Bank — a fully licensed, regulated, microfinance bank in Nigeria bringing digital innovation to the developing market and transforming the way people use money. Previously he worked as Director of Product at Chipper, leading teams across Africa, US, Europe and Latin America building innovative, well-designed financial products for customers. Before that he worked at N26 as a Group Product Manager, taking care of Bank APIs and at JetBrains as the Head of Business Analysis and Automation, investigating customer behavior, and improving the company's core KPIs such as customer retention and activation in a data-driven way. He also worked with the PyCharm team for over six years, investigating how Python, related frameworks, technologies, and tools are being used for different types of development. Before JetBrains, he worked as a Software Developer for Oracle on Oracle Linux and Oracle VM projects and Astronautics Corporation of America on Boeing 777/787 projects.
Experience
Our mission here at Kuda is to bring accessible, affordable, and rewarding banking experiences to people living in Africa and the African diaspora living abroad.
Our mission here at Chipper was to unlock global opportunities and connect Africa, one transaction at a time. Every day we're chipping away at the huge challenge of moving money freely across oceans and Africa. We’re lowering barriers to payments like never before and unlocking new opportunities for our customers. I led teams across Africa, US, Europe and Latin America to build innovative, well-designed products for customers.
At N26 I led a group of teams working on PSD2 Open Banking, Multi-Banking, Custom/Premium APIs and partner integrations. At that time I was an official main tech contact for BaFin (German Financial Authority) on Open Banking.
Leading the company-wide customer retention initiative and marketing/sales collaboration: identifying main reasons for customer churn and contractions to improve processes targeting customer/user retention growth in a data-driven way. Active collaboration with the sales department on retention growth initiatives and accurate reporting with custom dashboards.
Leading PyCharm product management activities: Python developers market research; competitor analysis and technology research; roadmaps; usability research, user interviews and surveys; coordinating release activities; helping with QA and tech support; product documentation improvements; product-oriented content creation and coordination of a dedicated team: a dev advocate, a product marketing manager and a tech writer
Leading product marketing activities for PyCharm - the Python IDE for Professional Developers
Coordination of QA across Oracle VM and Oracle Linux projects, Oracle Linux kernel automated tests development (focusing on virtualization and interoperability with Oracle VM Server), managing QA team for Oracle Linux; Oracle VM Server Documentation enhancements
Linux kernel developer working on Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) for Boeing 777/787 and the Nexus platform
Education
Computer Science and Automated Information Processing Systems Engineering