Curriculum Vitae

Berlin, Germanyoleksii@novykov.com

Experience

Founder

Pulsar

March 2025 - Present

Building intelligence layer for web3 industry. Extracting Insights from Crypto Community Chatter.

  • Designed and launched MVP of an AI agent Pulsar - assistant for retail investors (tech stack: Llama Index, Supabase, Langfuse, vector DB for RAG, Open AI API, Railway, Telegram API, Posthog)
  • Launched an API to make the agent's tools available externally utilizing Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Head of Product

Mento Labs GmbH, Berlin

Apr 2022 - Oct 2024

Founding team member of Mento Labs, a venture incubated at cLabs, that focuses on building a decentralized stablecoin platform.

  • Launched market making infrastructure to manage liquidity of protocol's stablecoins across 5 CEXes
  • Directed development and launch of three stablecoins Kenyan Shilling, Philippine Peso, Colombian Peso and governance token $MENTO
  • Drove adoption of Mento stablecoins through a co-launch with Opera, achieving 3.5 million users onboarded across emerging markets
  • Managed protocol's reserve worth of $129 million and company treasury worth of $10 million

Product Lead

Valora Inc., Remote

Jan 2021 - Mar 2022

Founding team member of Valora, a venture incubated at cLabs, operates as a standalone entity developing a mobile crypto wallet targeting users in emerging markets.

  • Scaled user base of the application from <100k to more than 1 million users
  • Defined and implemented a pivotal strategy, transforming Valora from a social payments app to a personal finance platform

Product Manager

Delivery Hero, Berlin

Sep 2016 - Apr 2020
  • Designed and launched food ordering and tracking agents for conversational AI platforms Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa
  • Implemented Facebook AI chatbot that decreased inbound tickets to customer care team by 65%
  • Led the launch of a new business vertical (quick commerce), integrating it into existing systems and overseeing product launch in ten markets
  • Managed product strategy and development for consumer-facing applications, driving a 35% increase in conversion rates across key markets
  • Launched checkout and post order upsell features, increasing average order value by 15% and GMV by $60 mln YoY

Consultant

Freelance

May 2015 - Aug 2017
  • Designed and conducted conversion optimization experiments for multiple customers in the e-commerce space

Product Optimisation Specialist

Level Up LLC, Kyiv

Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
  • Launched gamification engine increasing ARPU by 70%
  • Optimised landing pages for various traffic sources boosting sign up conversion rate by 200%

Affiliate Marketing Manager

Aurora Global LLC, Kyiv

Nov 2012 - Oct 2013
  • Managed media buying campaigns and setting up of tracking software for CPA networks
  • Conducted fraud prevention and optimized media buying strategies

Skills

Product Management

Product strategy, UX/UI design, experimentation, product analytics, user research, prioritization frameworks

Project Management

Agile methodologies, team leadership, cross-functional collaboration

Programming Languages

Solidity, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL, Python

Languages

English (proficient), German (intermediate), Ukrainian (native), Russian (native)

Education

Hugging Face

AI Agents course

Feb 2025 - May 2025

Odessa State Economics University

Master of Business Administration

Sep 2004 - Jul 2009