Dainis — Blockchain/DeFi/FinTech Product Manager

Expertise in NFT, DeFi Ecosystem, Blockchain Project/Product Manager.

Last verified on July, 2023

Core Skills

DeFi

Bio Summary

- IT project director and startup founder passionate about the banking, fintech, blockchain industries.
- Results-driven Product Manager with forward-thinking approach centered on company success and competitive growth.
- Record of success in building successful teams and managing different type of project to the market launch.
- Experience on working with DeFi, NFT, dApp, Crypto related project and platform launches over highly volatile market within cross-functional teams.
- Successfully launched fintech startup and also managed Scrum development team in largest Sweden Bank data warehouse unit.
- 7+ years of experience in IT.
- Advanced English.

Technical Skills

Data Analysis and Visualization Technologies	ETL
Databases & Management Systems / ORM	Data Warehousing, SQL
Industry Domain Experience	Banking, retail
Methodologies, Paradigms and Patterns	Agile, Scrum, SOAP
Project Management & Administration	Business planning, Development cycle management, Marketing strategies, Project Management, ROI, Scrum Master
Platforms	CMS
Blockchain and Decentralized Software	Dapp, DeFi, NFT
Collaboration, Task & Issue Tracking	Jira

Experience

Founder - Director, Blockchain Company

2021-06 - Current
Responsibilities:

Team leadership with the successful launch of a start-up.
Mitigated costs while collaborating with vendors to manage inventory items.
Trained and managed a team of developers and discussed issues to provide resolution and apply best practices.
Led, built, and owned backend services and infrastructure to power core blockchain-based products.
Defining and implementing both - long and short-term strategies and roadmap for blockchain-based services and products.
Successfully launched four local NFT projects with dApp functionality for the local artists and the largest Baltic Airline company.
The leadership of cross-functional teams by Agile methodology.
Pitching a blockchain service to institutional clients.
Defining vision, strategy, and creative methods of moving products to market.
Management of sales and marketing team to align with project predicted milestones.

Director of Technology, Berlitz

2021-01 - Current
Responsibilities:

Authored wide-ranging roadmaps, determining how technology would be integrated into business operations for maximum return on investment (ROI).
Successfully managed implementation of new technological improvements resulting in increased efficiency such as online classroom video lessons function, chatbot/live chat solution, major incident management, server data migration project, and more.
Provided leadership and implemented improvements for the IT technical support department.
Coordinated work of cross-functional teams from development to marketing.
Owning the technology product life cycle from market research, problem identification, building the plan for solution implementation, and managing product delivery.
Interacting directly with corporate customers to identify the problem or need.

Founder, Private limited Company

2019-02 - 2021-03
Responsibilities:

Started this project with a co-founder due to my passion for the fintech, payments industry, and willingness to expand experience and knowledge outside the daily work routine.
Successfully launched an online fintech platform to the market.
Fulfilled own idea of creating an online platform that automatically connects e-commerce merchants and relevant payment gateway companies and payment processors.
Designed and implemented a fully custom CMS backend system to manage sales leads for each employee to automate commission payouts.
Managed recruitment process of sales, marketing, and vendors.
Organizing development work, communicating with banks, financial institutions, eCommerce industry companies, and related fintech companies to launch new business partnerships and to establish project growth.

Software Engineer - Scrum Master, AS Swedbank

2018-09 - 2020-12
Responsibilities:

Modified existing data warehouse database processes and datasets to correct coding errors, overall performance improvement.
Produced high-standard database solutions to meet stability, reliability, performance metrics, and business rules.
Maintained complex SQL queries, views, and stored procedures in a multi-database environment with little supervision.
Designed and created ETL code installations, aiding in transitions from multiple data sources to the data warehouse.
Facilitated Scrum framework – sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.
Collaborated with product owners, team members, technologists, and other scrum masters to define solutions and drive progress.
Successfully coordinating development work for cross-functional international teams from 4 different countries of 14 people.
Ensuring that cross-functional team understands the need for clear concise product backlog items.

Integration Manager - Technical Support Specialist, AS Rietumu Bank

2016-09 - 2018-09
Responsibilities:

Followed up with clients to verify optimal customer satisfaction following support engagement and problem resolution.
Assessed system hardware and software and suggested modifications to reduce lag time and improve overall speed.
1st and 2nd level Technical support to company clients and employees.
Explained technical information in clear terms to non-technical individuals to promote better understanding.
Created support documentation that empowered and enabled the user community to extend skills, leverage system features, and find resolutions to questions without intervention from the support team.
Lead for new payment gateway companies integration process to a processing center.
Work on a test environment with new services and test specific changes in real-time processing systems before going live (SOAP messages, database table updates, etc).
Investigating, optimization, and automation of different company IT processes (JIRA tasks, SQL queries, reports).

IT Project Manager, SIA ITIndustry

2014-05 - 2016-09
Responsibilities:

Closely collaborated with project members to identify and quickly address problems.
Demonstrated familiarity with the latest hardware, software, and networking technology, as well as industry trends.
Communicated with executive team and CEO to maximize development efficiencies and resolve technology issues.
Released multiple virtual reality interior design projects.
Communicated and made partnerships with business investors and partner companies.
Delivered new IT infrastructure solutions to low and mid-level companies.
Team leadership towards different types of small and medium IT projects.
Analyzed network security and current infrastructure to assess areas in need of improvement and develop solutions.

Education

Latvia University of Life Sciences And Technologies - Latvia, Jelgava.

Bachelor of Science: Engineering in Computer Science

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