Paul K.

OrchestrateCS (OCS) is an EHS project management solution for manufacturers, providing mobility, control, and visibility over Health & Safety operations via a flexible software application.

Budget Management: $360K/Year

Team Management: 3 employees

Responsibilities:

- Owned the entire software development cycle by assembling a remote team of five seasoned engineers; helped choose the technology stack.

- Devised the company’s first MVP, allowing the founders to attract more backers and customers and increase investments to scale development.

- Originated the web and mobile versions of the application, fully readying it for the market; tested and integrated the application's verification checklist.

- Launched the first version of the application within only 4 months and facilitated the sales and marketing teams' use.

- Saved $60K by onboarding pre-made/ready solutions to build a new UI; reduced development costs by 50% instead of agency solution proposals using Ruby on Rails; saved $10K by integrating PAAS (Heroku) solutions for hosting and delivering applications.

- Implemented a transparent process to identify issues upfront and not waste time on rework; onboarded Continuous Delivery from scratch to make the automated delivery process robust and secure.

- Adopted readymade technical solutions to achieve a working version within four months without hiring extra staff.

- Successfully managed the internal performance DORA (deployment frequency: daily; lead time for changes: 2 days; mean time to recover: 1 hour; change failure rate: 0.01%).

- Elucidated the task development process among a distributed team worldwide.

- Established both the delivery procedure and rapid feedback process for developers.

- Helped to deliver a roadmap with maximum impact.

Team Management: 2 employees

- Redesigned the legacy functionality by fixing most of the issues.

- Optimized onboarding time from 3 months to 2 days.

- Fixed security vulnerabilities and ensured confidence in stakeholders by updating the code base.

- Successfully managed internal performance DORA (deployment frequency: reduced from quarterly to every 2 days; lead time for changes: reduced from monthly to every 2 days; mean time to recover: reduced from 1 week to 1 hour; change failure rate: reduced from 100% to 0.01%).

- Implemented a transparent process to identify issues upfront and not waste time on rework.

- Introduced Continuous Delivery to make the delivery process secure and fast.

- Reduced verification by 30% for QA through the automated deployment of new changes.

- Reduced running testing by 70% for CI/CD by optimizing and reworking code.

- Reduced maintenance issues, focusing on feature development, by migrating from SPA architecture to server-side rendering.

- Removed all unsupported and unmaintained dependencies; optimized code base to make support for less experienced developers more straightforward.

- Reduced required time by 70% for managers and QA to keep track of product changes by introducing Continuous Delivery.

- Replaced unsupported AngularJS code with server-side rendering, improving security and reducing lead and deployment time.

- Simplified the code base and improved the delivery process by removing 100 bugs per new change while working on the new features.

JetThoughts provides software delivery and consulting services to small/medium businesses developing custom Mobile and Web applications.

Total Revenue: $1M

Annual Revenue: $500K+

Team Management: 150 developers

- Achieved a high referral rate of 90%, with most new customers gained through recommendations.

- Won 50 new contracts with an average client collaboration of 5 years.

- Built and sold 3 R&D in Ukraine.

- Provided technical consultations to the clients, building a successful strategy, effectively structuring teams and processes.

- Delivered scalable web and mobile applications using Ruby on Rails and Modern JavaScript frameworks (Node.js, React, React Native, Vue.js).

- Ensured an excellent employee retention level, resulting in a low turnover rate (5 years on average) and a 30% increase in profitability.

- Held technical consultations for clients, helping them build successful strategies and structure teams and processes effectively.

- Developed a framework for simple collaboration to reduce waste in product development. Clients distinguish communication approaches as a critical factor for mutually beneficial cooperation with us.

- Designed code practices to help the team deliver a stable product. It improves team effectiveness and guarantees the quality and scalability of provided solutions.

- Integrated transparency, flexibility, and remote work culture, improving work satisfaction and reducing turnover. Our employees keep working with us for more than 4 years and don't switch to other companies.