Valery Z — Senior Blockchain Product/Project manager

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

Last verified on March, 2026

Core Skills

Product Manager

Project Management

Bio Summary

- 9+ years of experience in IT;
- Experience working with Blockchain products;
- Deep knowledge and skills in development of fintech products (CeFi/DeFi);
- Work experience with Development and work on UI / UX design, and web programming (HTML, CSS);
- Familiar with logic controller and CNC machine programming;
- Experience in project management and sales
- Good skills in organizing the work process in a team using Agile methodology;
- Good understanding and vision of product development and its design solution;
- Upper-Intermediate English;
- Available ASAP.

Technical Skills

Data Analysis and Visualization Technologies	Google Analytics
Databases & Management Systems / ORM	Airtable, MySQL, PostgreSQL
UI Frameworks, Libraries, and Browsers	CSS, HTML
Cloud Platforms, Services & Computing	AWS
Google Cloud Platform	Google Docs
Industry Domain Experience	Banking
Methodologies, Paradigms and Patterns	Agile
Collaboration, Task & Issue Tracking	Atlassian Confluence, Atlassian Trello, Jira, Miro, Notion
Scripting and Command Line Interfaces	Bash, CLI
Blockchain and Decentralized Software	CEX, DeFi, Staking
UI/UX/Wireframing	Draw.io, Figma, Mindmeister
Third Party Tools / IDEs / SDK / Services	Excel
Version Control	Git
Virtualization, Containers and Orchestration	Kubernetes
QA, Test Automation, Security	Postman, Zeplin
Project Management & Administration	Project Management
SDK / API and Integrations	Swagger
Other Technical Skills	Documentation, Utrack

Experience

Program Officer / Portfolio manager, Everstake Staking service.

01.2021-09.2022
Description: management of commercial projects, financial accounting, managing product managers and product owners, writing the business structure of the department team, and management development Leading 3 product development teams and 13 support projects (all blockchain projects) cooperated with the Solana team, Oasis team, Elrond team, Lido team, Cosmos team, Persistence team, and others.

Business Development Manager / Product manager, WhiteBit exchange.

02.2020 - 01.2021
Description: packaging commercial offers, working with partners, working with a team, working on a product, conducting business analysis, working with payment systems to form standards of effective business management of the company; expanding the geography of activities, promoting products, and developing a dealer network.

Product owner/Delivery manager, Software Data Systems.

01.2016 to 01.2020
Description: Construction of blockchain projects, integration of blockchain technology into commercial structures, creation of Fintech projects based on blockchain Integration of flow payment instruments Blockchain product gamification Creation of logistics products based on blockchain
Introduction of private blockchain technology in the construction of a medical database
Development and technical design of data center mining DevOps manager Testing and development of flow automation of the Mining Data Center Organisation of teamwork. Marketing and bringing a blockchain product to market. Metrics and analytics of user data. Team management and communication. Working with teams of 5 to 17 people, mainly front-end (vue / react js) and back-end (go / rust / solidity) developers, DevOps, designers.

Program manager / Business Development Manager, GMF.

01.2013 to 12.2016
Description: formation of clear goals in the process of development and development of ways to achieve them; responsibility for the results of development and increase in the number of employees,
expansion of the organization;
Participated in the formation of the product line and developed development plans; created and brought to market new product samples;
Experience in teamwork on scrum methodology with own developments and integration of
various FIX project management techniques

Projects

https://www.eversol.one
https://www.cosmoscan.net
https://www.stakesolana.app
https://www.oasismonitor.com
https://www.elrondmonitor.com

Startups: Successfully participated in three grant business incubators:

regional from APE;
national from IOM;
international from UNDP.

Education

DevOps on AWS: Code, Build, and Test - Amazon Web Services;

Software Product Management - University of Alberta;

Blockchain Basics;

Smart contracts Solidity;

Certifications Decentralised Applications (Dapps) Foundations and Use Cases - State University;

Introduction to blockchain technology - State University;

Private education in the field of machine tool processing, laser processing of materials, laser systems, and CNC systems;

Private education in the field of security systems, deployment of remote security systems, connection, and debugging;

Private School of Business (Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services);

School for training specialists in the field of social activities (conflict studies, social entrepreneurship);

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