krstaver

Product Manager/Project Manager

I am a manager with nearly 5 years of experience in blockchain and IaaS products. I possess strong communication and leadership skills and am passionate about building innovative solutions for real business challenges. Seeking opportunities to leverage my expertise in product development.



Experience: 3 years

Yearly salary: $60,000

Hourly rate: $25

Nationality: 🌏 Remote

Residency: 🌏 Remote


Experience

Project Manager with Product Ownership duties
NDA
2024 - 2025
Product: Decentralized Exchange (DEX) Trading Terminal Responsibilities/ Experience: Organized the development of modules for memecoin trading, including trading strategies (sniping, copytraiding) during the MVP stage. Planning, prioritized and decomposed tasks for wallet functionality, order management, transaction history, and analytics. Coordinates DevOps efforts to set up CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and deployment automation. Managed leased infrastructure. Oversaw UI/UX design for the trading terminal and conducted usability testing. Organized, planned, and coordinated QA process. Created technical documentation and product roadmap fr internal and external stakeholders. Liaised with clients to analyze, approve, and track requirement changes. Managed hiring and onboarding process for new team members. Maintained the product backlog. Achievements: Implement new features (sniping, copytraiding and SOL analytics). Streamlined and optimized documentation. Introduced Agile (Scrum) methodologies, reducing feature development time by 20%. Automated testing and deployment processes. Development an onboarding program for new hires. Conducted 10 usability test, improving interface design and user satisfaction.
product manager
NOWNodes
2022 - 2024
IaaS/SaaS Project Management: Led the end-to-end management of a large-scale IaaS/SaaS project within the blockchain infrastructure domain. Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Managed and coordinated a cross-functional team of developers, DevOps engineers, and other stakeholders. Full-Cycle Development Management: Oversaw the entire product development lifecycle from initial ideation and concept development to full-scale production launch. Market Analysis & CustDev: Conducted comprehensive market research and Customer Development (CustDev) to analyze target developer segments (DeFi, NFT, Enterprise), identifying their key needs and pain points in blockchain infrastructure. Enterprise Sales: Personally managed and closed high-value deals with enterprise clients. Infrastructure Management: Administered and maintained leased server infrastructure, ensuring optimal performance and cost-efficiency. Feature Prioritization: Defined and prioritized product features (e.g., new API methods, supported blockchains, node types, tools) based on customer demand, implementation complexity, and projected impact on key metrics. Product Strategy & Roadmapping: Developed the overall product strategy and created a detailed product roadmap, aligning the product vision with core market needs and technical capabilities. Performance & Reliability Management: Guaranteed adherence to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for uptime, latency, and Requests Per Second (RPS). Monitored performance metrics and prioritized tasks to eliminate bottlenecks. DevOps/Infrastructure Team Coordination: Coordinated the work of DevOps and Infrastructure teams by decomposing high-level goals into technical tasks focused on infrastructure optimization, CI/CD pipeline improvements, monitoring, and scalability. API & Documentation Development: Spearheaded the design of a user-friendly API and the creation of comprehensive, clear documentation (using Swagger, tutorials). Pricing Strategy: Developed pricing models and plans by analyzing service costs, evaluating feature value/limits, and creating competitive tiers (Free, Pay-As-You-Go, Enterprise). Backlog Management & Sprint Planning: Managed the product backlog through prioritization frameworks (RICE, JTBD), planned sprints, and facilitated agile ceremonies. Usability Testing: Conducted usability testing sessions for product Achievements/Case Studies: Delivered a complex, high-load project (from specifications to production release). Increased API throughput from 900 to 20K requests/sec. Grew monthly revenue by 1,625% over 2 years. Expanded the client base from 14 to 1,000+ (50% enterprise). Onboarded and retained major fintech/crypto market players. Secured a blockchain grant for a new product (from milestone planning to launch and presentation).

Skills

agile
product-manager
project-manager
saas
scrum
sql
english
russian