Professional Experience
Deriv2022 - Present
Senior Product Manager - Affiliate Platforms
Oct 2024 - PresentLimassol, Cyprus
Product Innovation & User Experience:
- Revolutionized user onboarding: Designed and implemented a partner onboarding flow reducing friction from 2 days to under 5 minutes (99.8% improvement)
- Enhanced user trust: Designed a RAG Pipeline that provides real-time support and documentation access, improving user confidence and adoption
- Optimized user journeys: Streamlined partner integration flows resulting in a 15% decrease in signup completion failures
- User-centric road mapping: Created product roadmaps based on user needs, technical feasibility, and compliance requirements
Product Management
User Experience
RAG Pipeline
Senior Product Manager - Trading Platforms
Jul 2023 - Oct 2024Limassol, Cyprus
Product Leadership & User Experience:
- Enhanced trading UX: Led a cross-functional team in developing financial trading solutions improving user experience for 3M+ customers
- Cross-functional UX collaboration: Directed seamless cooperation between product, design, engineering, and marketing teams using agile methodologies
- Complex API UX: Simplified complex API trading interfaces and client workflows to improve user experience and developer adoption
- Large-scale coordination: Successfully managed cross-functional teams of 20+ using Scrum and Kanban methodologies, ensuring a user-focused delivery of our products
Product Management
Trading Platforms
Agile Methodology
Senior Business Analyst - Trading API
Jan 2022 - Jul 2023Limassol, Cyprus
Data-Driven Growth:
- Delivered complex analysis on DLT and API Platforms
- Translated business requirements into technical specifications for development teams
- Facilitated successful project initiation and completion through effective stakeholder communication and agile methodologies
- Led cross-functional collaboration between product, marketing, and operations teams
Business Analysis
Trading API
Data-Driven Insights
Director & Head of Deriv Cyprus
Jan 2022 - PresentLimassol, Cyprus
Organizational Growth & Leadership:
- Built and scaled the organization from 8 to 30+ professionals, establishing Cyprus as a strategic EU hub for the organization
- Launched a second office in Nicosia, expanding operations and regional presence
- Achieved 0% turnover for 3 consecutive years through innovative engagement strategies
- Earned "Best Place to Work - Cyprus" recognition for 2 consecutive years and "Great Place to Work" certification for 4 years straight
Strategic Impact:
- Developed and executed recruitment strategies aligned with market trends, driving talent acquisition growth
- Led regulatory initiatives ensuring seamless operations in line with relevant employment laws
- Established strategic partnerships enhancing local market positioning
Leadership
HR Strategy
Operational Excellence
Previous Experience
Senior Product Manager
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021GT Group (FXGT) • Limassol, Cyprus
Financial Platform UX Transformation:
- Led comprehensive UX redesign: Transformed Client and Partner trading platforms collaborating with UX designers, engineers, DevOps, and business teams
- Rapid prototyping: Delivered working UX proof of concept in 1 month through iterative design and user testing
- User journey optimization: Redesigned complete customer experience including onboarding flows, content presentation, and key interaction touchpoints
- Technical UX implementation: Coordinated complex frontend and backend development ensuring scalable, user-friendly financial platform delivery
Product Management
UX Design
Financial Platforms
Managing Director, European HQ
May 2015 - Apr 2021XAmplifier • Limassol, Cyprus
International Expansion & Operations:
- Built European headquarters: Established and scaled the organization to 26 cross-functional professionals
- Market expansion: Successfully grew the company's influence and market share across EU markets, specifically in the UK healthcare domain
- Operational excellence: Managed the day-to-day business operations ensuring sustainable growth
- Strategic leadership: Directed and executed the European strategy for MarTech solutions in healthcare
Director level
International Expansion
Healthcare Technology
Lead Solutions Architect
Sep 2015 - Dec 2020XAmplifier • Chicago, IL
- Executive engagement: Led pre-sale demonstrations with C-level executives for healthcare organizations
- Technical architecture: Designed software integrations ensuring HIPAA compliance and data security and integrity
- Solution design: Created patient journey frameworks and data interface solutions
- Regulatory compliance: Developed compliance reports meeting healthcare industry standards
Solutions Architecture
HIPAA Compliance
Healthcare Technology
Lead Software Engineer & Cloud Architect
Mar 2011 - Mar 2021XAmplifier • Chicago, IL
Platform Architecture & DevOps:
- Platform foundation: Architected the original XAMPLIFIER SaaS Platform and cloud infrastructure which served 2.5M patients in the U.S in 8 years
- DevOps innovation: Designed and implemented high availability solutions to ensure a 99.99% uptime of our systems
- Data engineering: Created custom ETL solutions supporting healthcare data processing with various organizations
- Technical leadership: Established development best practices and architectural standards
Cloud Architecture
DevOps
Software Engineering