Managing Complex Engineering Projects

What is your background and can you take on complex projects?

So yes, complex and regulated projects are where my experience comes from and especially in the banking industry.

Let me give you 4 examples.

So the first one, the JOE app.

I was a founding engineer of this buy now, pay later app, from the very first line of code.

And I took over the technical side and managed a team of five developers in that project.

This JOE app reached 200,000 users and we were handling millions of transactions in the database.

this company also joined Y Combinator and two years after we started it was acquired by a big financial institute.

So we went through an audit etc.

of the code base as well before the acquisition.

Second, the combine project, a phone for kids connected to a parental app.

Parents choose exactly who their child can call without handing them smartphone.

And my team and I built the parental app and the whole backend infrastructure behind it.

We built the telecom integration using Asterisk the technology that handles the calls.

We also designed the technical architecture of the whole software side a partner company build the hardware.

So we connected their device to our software through different APIs and we worked with the factory also on additional testing etc.

to make the project working.

So that's software, telecom and adware.

Three different worlds that all have to work together.

And I was handling the whole organization of that project.

the third run Treezor, a banking as a service company that powers many fintechs and neo banks.

I was the Tech SCA implementation manager.

SCA is strong customer authentication when you pay online.

I need to make sure that your banking app asks you to approve the payment and every security control that comes with it.

My job was to make sure every one of Treezor's clients implemented it correctly.

And the stakes were high.

Treezor operates under a single banking license, so if just one client got it wrong, the license of the whole company was at risk.

And for the fourth project, iVOBS a platform that use API to convert wire transfer into crypto in crypto back into wire transfers to enable a marketplace inside a mobile app where people can buy good services using this technology which are crypto, with that rare transfers conversion into crypto.

That's two different financial systems that have to talk to each other, reliably, Where every transaction is real money.

so here's what those projects taught me.

Complexity is rarely what kills the project scope is.

and the more complex your project, the more important it is to launch with the null rest version that solves one problem for one type of customer, and then expand