Astana, Kazakhstan
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📞 +77 77 028 88 33 @ilyasq1
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Senior Project & Delivery Manager | Building High-Performing Global Teams
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🙋🏻♂️About me
Senior Project and Delivery Manager with 15+ years of professional experience, including 10+ years in project management and 7+ years in IT management.
Proven track record leading distributed engineering and product teams of up to 15 members across the world in fintech, retail, automotive, and SaaS. Skilled in building delivery processes from the ground up, scaling cross-functional teams, driving AI-assisted requirements discovery, and delivering products from MVP to production across international markets.
Deep expertise in Scrum, Scrumban, and OKRs, with a track record of translating business objectives into executable technical roadmaps.
Experience
Project Lead | Insergle AG (Fleatify.ch)
October 2022 – Present • 3 yrs 10 mos • Switzerland (Remote, International Team)
Fleatify.ch — Automotive B2B SaaS startup providing loans, insurance, warranties, auctions, and appraisals to streamline car sales across multiple channels.
- Built and led an international team of 10 across 4 countries, implementing Agile practices (Scrum/Scrumban), sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos to maintain seamless collaboration across time zones.
- Delivered an MVP for a B2B car auction platform targeting the UAE market under tight deadlines and limited resources; led a strategic market pivot to Switzerland, focusing on automation for insurance and financing modules.
- Integrated legal support services and VIN data providers, and established bank partnerships enabling automated credit approval workflows.
- Designed BPMN workflows and translated founder requirements into user stories and actionable development tasks.
- Owned the recruiting process and team development, conducting regular 1:1s to improve performance, motivation, and engagement across a diverse, remote team.
Project Manager | IMPACTUM
April 2025 – June 2026 • 1 yr 3 mos
Enterprise platform for communication management, media intelligence, and content analysis.
- Introduced AI-assisted "Shift Left" requirements discovery, reducing ambiguity before development and improving engineering alignment.
- Built a transparent end-to-end delivery workflow spanning analysis, design, development, QA, and release.