Lead an E-Commerce startup

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Start Date: 
Mon, 2019-08-19
End Date: 
Fri, 2020-07-31
Location: 
Portefini, United Kingdom
Programming/modeling techniques: 
Python, React, REST API, Django, nginx, Docker, Gunicorn, Celery, Redis, AWS, Stripe, Sentry, CircleCI, TensorFlow, scikit-learn
Status: 
CTO

Portefini is a US-based startup, its mission is to make shopping for men effortless.

  • Doubled the team size within weeks and setup best practices for coding, estimation and delivery which met deadlines on time
  • Increased ROI by 20% by developing the curation and personalization engines to recommend clothes from a pool of 500K+ items
  • Acted as the point of reference for product, roadmap and scope management which paved the way for future investment