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Vlad, Co-founder / CTO at Kappa.London (team of 15 engineers, designers and generalists)

King’s College London graduate of Computer Science Bachelor / Master degree

Making tech products & solutions from 0 → success and up-leveling existing. I will solve any tech, engineering, design, inefficiency, business and research challenges → myself as one-man army or I assemble the team or integrate/lead the existing team.

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10 years experience in software as product lead or owner, architect, engineer (origin from front-end, now full stack and generalist) and UX/UI designer, across variety of industries/projects, previously art major.

Managing teams of 5-20 people (seniors or juniors depending on the project), mentoring juniors towards senior positions. Specialising in early stage startups, able to sustain low budget environment by ability to replicate microservices to cut down running cost and adapt juniors to immediate priorities while delivering primary solution of any complexity.

Interested in workflow digitisation/improvements; data/documents mining, scraping, processing and visualisation; algorithms; prototyping/experimenting with new technology; push the boundaries

Based in London and Riga


Selected clients / projects

Have multiple domain knowledge: dentistry (can do your next filling, just don't tell anyone), architecture, e-commerce, mobility and more. Able to quickly build up deep knowledge in new domains and interact with specialist in all levels

Services

CTO role, apps (web, mobile, desktop, TV), frontend, backend, e-commerces, CRMs, UX/UI, scraping, analytics, computer vision, prototypes, market and engineering research, algorithms, chats, web video/audio calls, forums, prototyping, admin panels, data visualisation, reverse engineering, team building, mentoring designers and engineers, maps, builders (website, editors, workflow, forms), competitor tracking and analysis, manual tasks automation / digitisation, workflow optimisations, text/video/image/documents processing, custom and personalised solutions for any industry

Project examples


1/254 E-commerce agency

Co-founder / CTO
  • Continues flow of new and long-term clients for e-commerce services
  • Award-winning presentations
  • High end medium side to small shops
  • Any customer experience for presentation and checkout, and internal tools

2/254 CRMs / workflows agency

Co-founder / CTO
  • Continues flow of clients
  • Any custom customer relationship management in short amount of time
  • Improving any type of internal processes
  • In architecture, e-commerce, car sharing, and many internal tools for variety of clients

3/254 Barclays UK leading bank startups social platform

Co-founder / CTO
  • Behavioural science - backed Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Management and Community Engagement platform
  • Ability to manage programme and cohorts with thousands of startups at the time
  • Custom from scratch solutions for chat, audio/video calls, mentoring match making, analytics

4/254 TapNote clinical notes startup

Startup and Product Lead / Engineer / Design / Business model / Patent owner
  • Zero → hundreds paying monthly subscribers, making dentists’ and clinics’ work faster, smarter and safer
  • Dentists in UK get sued often, it is important to have accurate clinical notes
  • Clinical note is length of A4 essay, usually done with copy and paste templates which are error prone
  • Developed patented new product for clinical notes: no writing, just click buttons, get more relevant legal suggestions
  • Clinical note taking, patient consent, personal liability risk score, analytics, audits, and many domain specific features for dentists and clinics
  • Assembled and managed team of 10-15 engineers, designers, marketing

5/254 Medical suggestion engine

Product Lead / Engineer
  • Huge dental/medical knowledge base data collector
  • Suggestion engine based on knowledge base and self learning based on user input
  • Patented and powers TapNote

6/254 Ladbrokes Coral betting shops

Front-end consultant
  • New EPOS for thousands of bet shops across UK, connecting to legacy betting machines
  • As the UK's best known sports betting brand, Ladbrokes is both a part of the local high street, and a big part of online sports betting.

7/254 Latvian Cosmetologists Association education platform

Platform maker
  • 600 cosmetologists in Latvia
  • Fee-based platform for online video courses, events, and membership management
  • Automated educational point system and certification

8/254 Zeelo uber for buses

Engineering consultant
  • Zeelo is a coach sharing web platform.
  • We built it from scratch in the very beginning of their company, and now they have grown a lot and have their own in-house dev team.

9/254 File sharing platform for Architects, Engineers

Co-founder
  • Automated document data extraction and processing
  • Secure file sharing
  • Drawing specification validation
  • Natural language search engine for drawing and specifications

10/254 Big data, analytics, and scraping

  • Scrape carsharing data to reverse engineer their business model, rides, revenue, profitable locations, direction of car movement, car maintenance and other metrics
  • Scrape and aggregate analytics for merchants which are selling food via the 3 food delivery apps in Romania: Glovo, Bolt Food, Tazz

11/254 Computer vision biometric measurement / True Depth camera

Product Engineer
  • Client product requires precise measurement of face, eyes, and body dimensions and distances between facial features and relative objects like measuring frames for vertex distance and IPD
  • Client had manual door-to-door person to do the measurement with a special tool
  • Replaced with self-service web and iOS app, computer vision image/video processing and utilised True Depth sensor in unique way, both for measurements and positioning
  • Designed measuring frames
  • Increased sales by 900%

12/254 Workflow optimisation tools for architects

Co-founder
  • Document data extraction and processing
  • Drawing specification validation to be up to date
  • Issue register / file sharing and feedback lifecycle tools
  • Search engine for drawing and specifications of 50 years of projects
  • 3rd Party model metadata access and edit rights

13/254 Bloomed social network

Project Manager
  • Our goal was to create an elder-friendly user interface that would enable giving and receiving advice
  • Client and Oxford University accelerator

14/254 Smart car repair, spare part sourcing cost optimisation algorithms

Consultant
  • Scraping spare parts algorithms for cost optimisations for repair shops
  • Customer / repair shop app and admin panels

15/254 Tandem social network

Front-end Lead
  • Internal clone of tandem.net for King's College London

16/254 LoungeWorks coworking spaces

Co-founder
  • An idea that transforms restaurants and coffee shops all over London into ad-hoc working spaces
  • Individuals or companies can occupy areas in these venues and use them as temporary working spaces
  • £99 / month

17/254 Travelling salesman problem

Product Engineer
  • Client requires door-to-door sales, multiple salesman and clients per day
  • Developed tool to efficiently manage travel time

18/254 Budget websites

Product Engineer
  • Hundreds of budget websites for small businesses that sells

19/254 Spy surveillance app activity

Product Engineer
  • Ability to detect competitor in closed beta app based on device, fingerprint, geo, IP and complex network relationship of logins to serve broken app version

20/254 Research with leading neurologist Dr Peter Giese

Computer simulation model engineer
  • Collaborating with Dr Peter Giese to build an algorithm to aid his research into understanding how the synapsis change in young and old age brain affect the storage information capacity
  • Understanding how to model high-level brain structure in graph theory, how to obtain empirical data to allow us to model useful graph and looking at existing graph models or graph characteristics that resembles the brain structure
  • Understanding how to model activity in the brain by looking at existing methods, developing the algorithm to model activity and run the algorithm on the developed graph model in the part 1

21/254 Research authentication based on computer mouse dynamics

Researcher
  • The goal of the paper to add additional layer of data in continuous authentication to see if this improves the accuracy of classifying the user.
  • This data is about associating user's mouse dynamics to the elements of the user interface. All users interact differently with each user interface element, for example, some user may mouse cursor after focusing in text input field as this make them feel less distracted.

23/254 Nova AI clinic management system

Product Lead
  • Clinic management system reimagined

24/254 Fashion videos auto edit

  • Auto crop and center into view the models on the video based on the body metrics for e-commerce product pages

25/254 Auto stock system

Product Manager
  • Custom gun hardware to program and shoot RFID tags
  • Custom antennas hardware to auto detect stock arrival and leave
  • Pressure mats to detect other type of product stock arrival and leave
  • Stockroom uses ultra reliable R.A.I.N sensors which can detect RFID tagged stock in greater than real time speeds, so you can track what you use with line by line precision reporting and pre empt shortages