Saudi Arabia

Generalist Product Management

Technical Product Management

Platform Product Management

Group Product Management

Front-end

Creative writing

Sales

Business Development

Program Management

Project Management

Development Operations

Architectural Engineering

Data Analysis

Business Transformation

Systems Design

Computer Vision

Generative AI

AI Product Management

AI Design

University of Oxford

Samara State Medical University

Vasilii Tereshchenko

GitHub

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Prototyping

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Time management

Critical-thinking

Team player

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Blog writing

Brand strategy

Business intelligence

Conversational AI

Chatbot

Content editing

Email writing

Event organisation

LinkedIn writing

Budget management

Whitepaper/ebook Writing

Product roadmap

Airtable

Asana

Canva

ChatGPT

Confluence

Facebook Ads

Figma

Glassdoor

HubSpot

Jira

Jupyter Notebook

Miro

Notion

Python

Tableau

Unity

Webflow

Linear

Node.js

PostgreSQL

REST API

Cursor

Instagram Ads

HTML

Docker

Empathy

Conflict resolution

Negotiation

Information architecture

Sales plan and process

Relationship management

Partnership

Product analytics

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Navigating micro-aggression, getting paid what you are worth and finding a community.

Being a woman in tech

Understanding factors that lead to a motivated team - recognition, communication and more.

Keeping team members motivated

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

• Architected and shipped a voice-first, AI-powered Telegram bot, serving English speakers learning Spanish and French
• Designed a multi-tenant Supabase / PostgreSQL schema with row-level security
• Seeded a vocabulary corpus of 14,000+ words across two languages with cron-driven daily delivery
• Built conversation, quiz generation, and moderation flows on OpenAI GPT-4o / GPT-4o-mini, with Whisper speech-to-
text and level-adaptive TTS for voice replies
• Integrated Paddle as Merchant of Record — global VAT / tax handling with webhook-verified subscription lifecycle
automation toggling Supabase state in real time
• Containerized deployment on Railway (webhook server + cron jobs); checkout overlay on Cloudflare Pages with
Paddle.js v2
• Single-instance deployment with in-process state to keep infrastructure costs near zero at current scale

• Built a platform for football coaches with AI video analysis, computer vision, coaching, and player-development tools
• Translated coaching workflows into product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for a 7-developer team
• Set the strategy and milestones; led investor outreach and business development
• Secured 5 MOUs from pro- and semi-pro clubs in Jordan and Saudi Arabia
• Established product-development process and quality-control procedures to catch defects pre-production

• Pivoted to a platform for Value-Based Healthcare, aligned with the Vision 2030 Health Sector Transformation Program
• Mapped clinical workflows across hospital partners to define product scope and integration requirements
• Secured pilot commitments from hospitals in Saudi Arabia and in Qatar & academic partnership with Alfaisal University
• Applied for and obtained initial approval for a 2 million SAR grant from the Saudi Innovation Grants Program
• Recruited Chief Medical Officer and Chief Technical Officer
• Closed an Angel investment round of $100k

• Established operations for a Middle East platform addressing stigmatised health conditions
• Led incorporation, licensing, and regulatory compliance activities
• Designed algorithmic prequalification flows to match patients with appropriate treatments based on their answers
• Developed the medical product pipeline and selected white-label manufacturing partnerships
• Owned financial modelling, vendor contracting, P&L reporting, and operational performance reviews

• In 10 weeks found co-founders and validated a startup idea
• Participated in workshops on financial modelling, strategy, incorporation, and team building
• Presented to the investment committee and secured $180k pre-seed investment from Antler

• Managed multidisciplinary teams across 6 NHS trusts on 2 projects with >£1M budgets each:
◦ Teledermatology pathway for suspected skin cancer
◦ Surgical-pathway carbon-output measurement
• Conducted stakeholder interviews with the executive team and end users to elicit requirements and shape product
definitions later embedded in employee onboarding
• Authored business and functional requirements, process maps, user journeys, risk logs, project charters, and
statements of work
• Oversaw applications for national software API integrations: NHS Login, GP Connect, PDS, IM1
• Performed competitor and market research to define product positioning and unique selling points
• Led submission of 6 Innovate UK / SBRI / NIHR grant applications totalling >£4M
• Line-managed the project-management team; supported the Chief Innovation Officer on commercial and academic
partnerships with the Universities of Cambridge and Essex and Academic Health Science Networks

• In a cross-functional Scrum team, elicited prospect needs and translated them into requirements for an enterprise no-
code rapid-application-development platform
• Expanded company offer to UK and Russian markets, adding 600 prospects to the pipeline weekly
• Designed sales-marketing alignment strategy and contributed to 2 global joint campaigns improving conversion 5–15%
per funnel stage
• At Gartner IT Symposium 2019 (Barcelona): generated 150 C-level and senior leads over 3 days

• Organised events where 5 scientists competed presenting research to 300-person audiences
• Managed sponsor relationships covering up to 100% of event budgets
• Organised the first all-Russian Science Slam with participants from 40 cities
• Recruited and coached >50 scientists on performance and public speaking

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