Vadzim Tashlikovich. IT expert with 20+ years of experience in software design/development, project management and international project coordination. I know how to make reliable, scalable, transparent, measurable, precise, fast, compliant, user-friendly and cost-effective software solutions.

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Tech & Development Expertise:

  • Cloud architecture creation for ERP/Banking/Fintech using GCP & AWS (Certified Architect);
  • Integration experience with ERP, payment systems, banks, crypto providers, identity screening and AML; integrations using SWIFT/SEPA transfers;
  • Efficient launch of cloud-based BaaS platforms;
  • Expertise in aligning product security with OWASP, CWE, NIST;
  • Design of PCI-DSS, PSD2 compliant solutions;
  • Delivering blockchain-based crypto solutions, including NFT marketplaces and arbitrage solutions;
  • Proficient in tech stack: Java/Node.js/Python, JS/TS/React, SQL.

Management Expertise:

  • Portfolio consists of urgent, high-precision and reputational projects;
  • Building effective collaboration among teams and stakeholders, enhancing engagement, defining objectives and success criteria;
  • Developing long-term roadmaps and executing new features without timeline impact;
  • Evaluating efforts and providing comprehensive explanations;
  • Executing POCs and releasing MVPs with minimal time-to-market;
  • Creating regulatory documentation for banking licenses in France & UK;
  • Conducting technical and management audits for startups and creating improvement plans;
  • Providing technical and reputational assistance during presales;
  • Coordinating international teams, motivating employees at all levels, and overseeing project coordination with the assistance of four subordinate PMs, TechLeads, and a team of over 40 members;
  • Handling resources, career paths, assessments, and interviews;
  • Transitioning projects to subordinate PMs and facilitating mentoring and growth.


Experience

FORTYSEVEN, Outsource/Investment company | 2017 - present

Chief Technology Officer, Technical Project Manager

Scand Poland, Outsource company | 2021 - present

Head of software development department: technical and resource management.

Scand, Outsource company | 2002 - 2021

Head of software development department: technical and resource management. In the past: Team lead, Senior software engineer, Project manager.

INKOMDATA, Product company | 2000 - 2002

Software engineer, Team lead.
Development of ERP systems using Java tech stack. Leading the development team, tasks management, code review.


Recent projects

1. Payment system | 2024 - present

Achievements: developed architecture of international payment system backed up by hard currency with blockchain integration.

2. Play-To-Earn game marketplace | 2023 - 2024

Achievements: successfully embedded my team into the big international project. Created PM processes. Gathered architecture requirements. Refactored architecture based on them. Created a transition roadmap, coordinated the transition from legacy to the new architecture.

3. LLM-based telegram bot | 2024

Achievements: developed architecture of bot capable of extraction of key information out of user messages under high load, prototyped several approaches using ChatGPT/Claude/Llama solutions.

4. ChatGPT-based proof of concept | 2023

Achievements: developed a PoC product capable of extracting valueable information from user requests in a free form, analyze dependencies and find matching people profiles using chatGPT integration and vectorized profiles matching algorithm.

5. Crypto file storage service | 2023

Achievements: developed the architecture for a cutting-edge startup project leveraging blockchain and IPFS technologies.

6. Crypto arbitrage bot | 2023

Achievements: gathered business requirements, managed a prototype creation, created architecture for the high-performant CEX/DEX trading solution, implemented the core service, helped to create solution that gains profit on cryptocurrency market.

7. Nation-level energy exchange solution | 2022 - present

Achievements: customer acquisition; managed to release the 1st version in extremely short terms, created architecture of the solution.

8. Gamehotness | 2022 - 2024

Achievements: generated the idea, designed and implemented a data-driven service, fetching and analysis of data using Python.

9. P2E game start-up using Blockchain/NFT/Web3 | 2022

Achievements: created all management and delivery processes for a project from a completely new industry, made development controllable, estimated, predictable; contributed into the solution architecture creation.

10. Fintech start-up architecture and processes design | 2022

Achievements: successfully consolidated the professional audit team; created a cross-region cloud architecture; created a full set of the recommendations in terms of creation of cross-region architecture and processes to fit PCI-DSS and banking regulations for several countries.

11. Fintech start-up full audit | 2022

Achievements: performed both management and architecture audit; created a list of recommendations to make development controllable, estimated, customized, without common design flaws for a Fintech industry; solved a startup crisis.

12. Startup in UK energy market | 2021

Achievements: gathered the business requirements, translated a business idea to the technical specification within a multi-step energy calculations formula; created a solution architecture; implemented several components of the solution; led the team to release POC in 2 months; managed to build a robust production-ready software.

13. Online bank | 2018 - present

Achievements: led the team to release MVP live in 8 months; developed a banking cloud architecture compatible with PCI-DSS, PSD2; implemented several components of the solution; successfully coordinated the international team.

14. ERP solution for UK’s energy market | 2019 - present

Achievements: led the team to release the required version within a limited budget; investigated the business functionality of the legacy system without any documentation and helped to build an effective solition; created solution architecture.

15. Cryptocurrency trading platform | 2019 - 2021

Achievements: solved a startup crisis, managed resources in extreme conditions.

16. Software solution for ski instructors management | 2020 - present

Achievements: guided the project from tender to the release, created solution architecture, successfully worked with the fixed budget, have grown the management personnel.

17. Online banking platform | 2018 - present

Achievements: coordinated the release MVP version in 4 months, have grown the management personnel.


Challenges

Recent challenges completed:

  • Performed penetration test, security audit of the enterprise application
  • Customer acquisition, initiated a nation-level energy exchange project
  • Managed and helped to release NFT/Web3 marketplace in a new industry
  • Created a banking architecture using AWS services, optimal in terms of performance and a budget
  • Performed benchmarking of the real-case financial software solutions written in Node.js/Java/Python
  • Performed a management and technical audit of a start-up, created plans for the found flaws elimintation
  • Created a cross-region cloud architecture solution
  • Successful acquisition of new customers, contracts signing
  • Introduced a new technology stack into application, from POC to production
  • Created a tool for a custom analysis of Sprint/Kanban boards
  • Investigated the technical aspects of implementation of Payment services Directive (PSD2) in Banking industry, introduced a list of improvements, controlled the implementation
  • Helped to bring a startup to the 2nd round of investments
  • Launched several projects in a short period with the limited resources
  • Brought new IT-industry expertise for the company in a short term
  • Automated the reporting process

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science

Belarusian State University / Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics

1996-2001, Belarus, Minsk

Arts School

1989-1993, Belarus, Zhodino


Certificates, courses and self-education:

Top Skills

The key ones:
  • Performance
  • Analytics and planning
  • Great communication
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership
  • Focusing
  • Presentation
  • Programming
Languages:
  • English - full working proficiency
  • Polish - limited working proficiency
  • German - beginner
  • Belarusian/Russian - native

Programming languages / Frameworks

Actual:

Others: React, PHP, Basic, Pascal, Assembler, Lisp, C/C++, ActionScript


Awards

  • FINALIST. The best website nomination in category “History, culture, arts”. Russia, Moscow, 2005
  • WINNER. The best content website nomination in category “Education”. Belarus, Minsk, 2006

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