Michael Beljaev

Owned end-to-end release delivery for a Visa-affiliated payments platform, coordinating planning, deployment readiness, and stakeholder sign-off across Engineering and QA. Led prioritization, resourcing, and release communication to align delivery with cross-functional launch timelines.

Led a team of Product Managers and coordinated communication between product and development teams to support delivery execution. Coordinated releases, feature launches, task decomposition, and onboarding into delivery processes while driving process improvements.

Managed multiple development teams in parallel across Core, Client Portal Backend, and Frontend. Partnered with Engineering and QA leads on prioritization, sprint planning, backlog and resource management, and implemented Agile workflows and a new team structure adopted as standard practice.

Led parallel development projects with multiple cross-functional developer teams (up to 10 members). Coordinated delivery with Product Owners, Project Managers, and Solution Architects, stabilized an ongoing client project after takeover, and introduced Agile workflow and sprint planning alongside a new cross-application, cross-region multilingual CMS initiative.

Set up a new office and development team from scratch, then implemented Agile/Scrum delivery practices as Scrum Master. Led an ERP implementation for a key customer and organized a new 3D modelling department.

Led a team of 10 developers delivering and supporting a B2B online booking engine using Agile/Scrum as Scrum Master. Planned roadmaps and releases with the product owner and drove adoption of DevOps practices while optimizing IT infrastructure and helpdesk support.

Led end-to-end delivery of an e-commerce platform for a major national airline, from tender and technical specification through development, supplier integration, and production launch. Managed a team supporting client relationships and help desk functions in the Russian and CIS markets.

Built a new online booking department from the ground up and led the online systems function.

Led company IT infrastructure and delivered the first XML-connection-based travel booking facility for the Russian market. Served as Head of IT and Web Department / Project Manager over the role period.

Supported the establishment of a Swiss-based internet brokerage in Hamburg as part of back office leadership responsibilities.

Studied Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen from 1993 to 1997.

Attended Niels Brock Copenhagen Business College from 1991 to 1992.

Studied at the Institute for Telecommunication in St. Petersburg from 1984 to 1988.