Our mission here at Chipper is 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 lead teams across Africa, US, Europe and Latin America to build innovative, well-designed products for customers.

Leading the Bank API group: PSD2 Open Banking initiative, Multi-Banking, Custom integrations and APIs.

* Official main tech contact with BaFin (German Financial Authority)

* Member of the PSD2 Berlin Group standartization initiative

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 product management activities related to the PyCharm project: Python developers market research; competitor analysis and technology research; helping with product development roadmaps; supporting developers with usability research, user interviews and surveys; coordinating various release activities and making sure deadlines are met; 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 related to the PyCharm project: user feedback analysis; new features highlights and promotions; running the product website, blog and social media; communication and coordination with other internal teams; planning, scheduling, and authoring of product-related materials; preparing and leading public appearances (conferences, trade shows, customer visits); product/company-related partnerships; product and marketing experimentation: coming up with ideas for improvements in various parts of the project; setting up metrics and tests; experimenting with existing and new ways of getting new users through changes in the product, partnerships, bundles, and special promotions.

Being responsible for Oracle VM/Oracle Linux cross-project development and QA, I enhanced Oracle VM documentation, developed test plans and a set of automated tests to ensure Oracle Linux runs smoothly as guest OS on Oracle VM Server. Created automated scripts to deploy Oracle VM server and Oracle Linux as guest OS on new builds arrival and developed scripts for running tests.