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Nikita Taranov

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Senior Project & Delivery Manager with 10+ years in B2B and enterprise software, scaling teams and improving delivery.

Ukraine

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What I'm looking for

Looking for a fully remote Senior Project Manager or Delivery Manager role with a Ukrainian or international company hiring professionals based in Ukraine.

Interested in complex B2B products, enterprise platforms, and roles involving multi-team coordination, delivery improvement, and close collaboration with engineering and business stakeholders.

I'm a Senior Project Manager and Delivery Manager with 10+ years of experience delivering complex B2B products and enterprise software across FinTech, insurance, government services, iGaming, and hospitality.

My experience centers on helping teams navigate growth, delivery uncertainty, and technical complexity. I've scaled engineering organizations from 5 to 35+ people, guided transitions from a single team to multiple feature teams, and coordinated delivery within enterprise programs involving 17 teams and 500+ specialists.

The challenges I've tackled include recovering struggling projects, resolving cross-team dependencies, balancing scope with capacity and budgets, and establishing clear ownership and release practices. My work has contributed to approximately 30% higher team velocity, 10% less rework, and 20% fewer dependency-related blockers across different engagements.

I combine delivery and people leadership with a technical foundation in System Programming. I'm comfortable working with engineers, architects, and executives to make trade-offs explicit, align expectations, and turn business priorities into realistic delivery plans.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Senior Project Manager /Delivery Manager

8Tech

Aug 2024 - Feb 2026 (1 year 6 months)

Led delivery for a B2B casino back-office platform as engineering grew from 5 to 35+ people. Transitioned to feature teams and managed core platform development, DevOps, and data engineering. Launched DevOps as a Service for external clients. Owned release coordination, budget and staffing planning, working directly with the CTO and Head of Delivery.

Senior Project Manager

P2H

Jun 2023 - Jun 2024 (1 year)

Led a 12-engineer team delivering shared capabilities for a Saudi government services platform. Audited delivery processes and implemented a recovery plan, increasing velocity by approximately 30% and reducing rework by approximately 10%. Improved planning, ownership, quality gates, and cross-team dependency coordination.

Project Management Delivery Management Team Leadership Process Improvement Scrum Jira Confluence

Senior Project Manager

Intellectsoft

Jan 2023 - Jun 2023 (5 months)

Managed three concurrent client software projects spanning development and production support, balancing priorities and shared engineering capacity. Conducted a PMO-level delivery audit, identified gaps in SDLC governance, delivery controls, and reporting, and defined practical improvement actions.

Project Management Resource Allocation SDLC Governance Reporting

Senior Project Manager

SoftServe

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 (9 months)

Staffed and onboarded three engineering teams totaling 15 FTE two weeks ahead of schedule for a banking product with AI-powered voice functionality. Established SDLC and ITIL-based delivery practices, including shared Definitions of Ready and Done. Managed staffing costs, financial tracking, and salary negotiations during ramp-up.

Project Management Staffing Onboarding SDLC ITIL Financial Tracking Salary Negotiation

Delivery Manager

Grid Dynamics

Jun 2021 - Feb 2022 (8 months)

Managed client delivery and aligned engineering plans with business priorities. Conducted 70+ interviews, onboarded 20+ engineers, and reduced average time-to-hire from approximately 30 to 20 days. Increased CSAT by approximately 10% through expectation management and transparent reporting. Introduced regular 1:1s and Personal Development Plans.

Delivery Management Customer Relationship Management Interviewing Onboarding Stakeholder Communication CSAT Improvement 1:1s Personal Development

Project Manager

EPAM Systems

Oct 2019 - Jun 2021 (1 year 8 months)

Managed two Scrum teams totaling 26 people in a 500+ FTE SAFe program for a US insurer's B2B platform. Coordinated dependencies across 17 teams and introduced a Dependency Management Framework, reducing related blockers by approximately 20%. Supported release coordination, CI/CD quality gates, and application and data engineering delivery.

Project Management Scrum SAFe Dependency Management Release Management CI CD Coaching Data Management

Project Manager

MobiDev

Jun 2018 - Oct 2019 (1 year 4 months)

Managed three teams totaling 20 FTE within one hospitality/POS product: a mobile app, web admin portal, and B2B client app. Led the client transition from Fixed Price to a Dedicated Team model and introduced Scrum practices. Acted as Proxy Product Owner and coordinated a Predictive Analytics pilot within an internal Data Science initiative.

Project Management Scrum Client Negotiation Product Ownership Requirements Analysis Discovery Prioritization Data Science Predictive Analytics

Project Manager

Jelvix

Oct 2016 - Jun 2018 (1 year 8 months)

Managed three teams totaling 10 FTE delivering mobile and web projects across FinTech, e-commerce, and travel. Coordinated scope, priorities, timelines, workloads, and client communication. Combined Project Management and Business Analysis, contributing to pre-sales, discovery, requirements clarification, estimation, and project initiation.

Project Management Business Analysis Pre Sales Discovery Requirements Scoping Estimation Client Communication