Valerii Novikov

Experience

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  American Business Center

  Jun 2007 - Feb 2008

  WEB developer
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  Speedflow Communications Ltd

  May 2008 - Feb 2010

  PHP developer
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  Ctrl+A

  Feb 2010 - Sept 2010

  PHP developer
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  Handster.com

  Dec 2010 - Sept 2011

  Project Manager / PHP developer

  Handster is an AppStore solution company offering a white label platform and aggregated content.Responsibilities:• Manage several App integration projects• Develop and support the App Store platform

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  Opera Software

  Sept 2011 - Nov 2016

  • Manage company’s projects and software engineering teams• Fully responsible for the Administration Console and Statistics Platform.• Own the project evolution vision• People management and leadership (including motivating, hiring and firing)• Establish and maintain team processes• Manage international cross-functional teams collaboration • I was responsible for the whole cycle of mobile ad operations in CIS region:hired, mentored and managed 3 teams to support that (Account Managers, Campaign Managers, Traffic/Yield Optimization Managers)• Developed and supported a statistics platform (UI and backend) that was used by many people in company, it was a critical part of the revenue tracking and traffic optimization processes, source of truth for decision making for the Top Management. • Build, manage and mentor an international distributed Traffic/Yield Optimization Team in different regions• Created a process, logic and tools for the mobile traffic ad optimization that significantly increased the company’s revenue • Manage and take a part in development of the Opera Mobile Store Administration Console• Develop an Ad management features for the App Store• Integration between the store and existing ad platform in the company (creating ad campaigns and statistics)Opera Software has acquired Handster Inc., a leading mobile application store platform company in September 2011:http://www.opera.com/press/releases/2011/09/19/

  • Senior Manager of Engineering

    Feb 2015 - Nov 2016

  • Regional Manager, Ad Operations

    Dec 2013 - Feb 2015

  • Senior Manager, Traffic/Yield Optimization Team Lead

    Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

  • Project Manager

    Sept 2011 - Jun 2013
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  Bemobi

  Nov 2016 - Sept 2021

  Senior Manager of Engineering

  • Manage company’s projects and software engineering teams • Fully responsible for the Administration Console and Statistics Platform.• Own the project evolution vision• People management and leadership (including motivating, hiring and firing)• Establish and maintain team processes• Manage international cross-functional teams collaboration• Infrastructure cost optimization (AWS)

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  DataArt

  Sept 2021 - now

  Senior Project Manager