Konstantin Solnushkin

I built a two-sided marketplace with payment system integrations for coaches and their students. Thanks to the prototype, the company founders were able to raise venture and private funding for further development.

I managed website creation with a Lean team and on a shoestring budget in Python/Django. I released an MVP where event organizers could add their events with descriptions, photos, and locations displayed on a map.

The task was to capture requirements for a new SaaS system that would allow the USA's leading partner of utility companies with nationwide coverage to offer a software solution for work order management, emphasizing IoT-based fleet tracking with 4G-connected devices.

I helped my client develop a concept of the future system and gather its requirements. We also chose a vehicle tracking partner that would become a module of the future system and tested hardware for vehicle tracking compatible with my client's fleet.

I was hired to perform Agile coaching in a team of eight developers to improve their processes and make sure they use Scrum to its full potential.

Together with the team, we identified 16 points of improvement, and in the next two months, acted on them. Improvements ranged from high-impact technical ones such as a proper Git branching strategy to communication improvements, such as introducing a new format for a daily stand-up meeting.

Overall, the team is now in a much better shape than before, more organized, and empowered with best practices.

I equipped a network of internet-connected air quality measurement stations, some of them vehicle-mounted, with a custom Linux distribution based on Debian Linux, resilient to failures, power outages, and loss of network connectivity, so that they can send gathered data to the monitoring center.

It was an early example of the internet of things (IoT) technology implemented in the interests of the regional government.

I cooperated relentlessly with onshore and offshore teams to compose a project schedule for a piece of work that had been under consideration long before I arrived. Seeing the result helped the executive team quantify their risks and change company direction altogether to avoid them.

I was hired to compose a user story map for a customer portal and a RESTful API-based back-end web service that were intended to work together.

I also prepared the architecture documentation for all the involved software components and a description of the database schema and API calls.