Andy Chumak

Work experience

• Product Manager - Developer Experience @ GoodData
  • Ensure best developer experience for GoodData SDKs
  • Contribute to the product vision and strategy
  • Contribute to the user research on developer experience
  • Prioritize features and define roadmaps
• Product Manager @ Suitest
  • Formalized Product Vision and Product Strategy for Suitest
  • Built quarterly and yearly roadmaps
  • Defined metrics and KPIs to collect the quantitative data
  • Conducted numerous customer interviews to collect the qualitative data
  • Conducted extensive competitive analysis to determine product's USP
  • Conducted over a 100 product demos for potential customers
  • Conducted 7 hands-on customer training sessions with Suitest
• Front-end Team Lead / Product Manager @ Suitest
  • Organized and prioritized backlog features for further Suitest development
  • Represented Suitest on numeral international fairs (IBC, NBA, BroadCast Asia etc.)
  • Continued leading Front-end team
• Front-end Team Lead @ Suitest
  • Managed the Front-end team of up to 8 people
  • Was responsible for code quality and internal processes in the team (code review, build pipeline etc)
  • Was responsible for selecting appropriate tech stack for the project
  • Conducted numerous HR/hiring interviews and did on-boarding sessions for new team members
• JavaScript Engineer @ Suitest
  • Worked on the customer projects, such as online magazines
  • Developed PDF to HTML converter with JavaScript and PHP
  • Developed .NET web application on a customer's project
  • Built HbbTV applications for Smart TVs
• Full Stack Web Engineer @ ad pepper
  • Provided technical support and further development of the iLead system
  • Prepared custom ASP scripts (JavaScript driven) for the iLead system
  • Developed with ASP.NET (C# driven) on the new iLeadSocial project
  • Developed with PHP Zend
  • Worked in a team of 5 developers in Ukrainian office + around 20 developers in Danish office
• Full Stack Web Engineer @ Goresh
  • Had been overseeing the refactoring of the proprietary PHP framework used in the company
  • Did web development on ~5 customer projects
  • Introduced newcomers to the company processes and proprietary PHP framework
  • Conducted code review and performance review of other PHP developers in the company
  • Communicated directly with clients in urgent/complicated cases
• Full Stack Web Engineer @ Roden Ltd.
  • Developed online shop for the company using PHP / Apache / MySQL stack, ZendFramework, jQuery frameworks
• Design Engineer @ Roden Ltd.
  • Designed CAD 3d models of the scale model kits

Studies

I stay current by attending courses, reading books and following influential product managers on the web.

• "Become a Product Manager" course @ Linkedin Learning
• The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries
• Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love by Marty Cagan
• Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky and Braden Kowitz
• Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters by Ryan Singer
• Herding Cats: A Primer for Programmers Who Lead Programmers by Hank Rainwater
• Following current trends in Product Management on the web, e.g. @ SVPG or Productboard