Oleg Puzanov is a highly experienced serial entrepreneur in the tech industry with a remarkable career spanning over 20 years. His exceptional skills in strategic development and team building have been pivotal in founding and leading successful companies.
As a co-founder of Namba, Namba Taxi, and Namba Food, Oleg played a vital role in establishing these technology-driven ventures. These companies have emerged as prominent players in their respective industries, offering innovative solutions and services. Oleg also co-founded Peklo Studio, Citylab Production Studio, and Silk Road Explore, where he provided valuable business advisory services, contributing to their growth and competitiveness. Furthermore, as the co-founder and CTO of GoDee, Oleg made significant contributions to the development of the company's robust and scalable technology platform.
Since 2016, Oleg has held the position of co-founder and CSO at Mad Devs. In this role, he has contributed to the strategic development of the company and played a crucial role in growing and development of Mad Devs as a leading tech company.
Oleg's strengths lie in his strategic mindset, enabling him to envision and execute successful business development strategies. He excels in validating hypotheses and making data-driven decisions, ensuring the ventures he is involved in remain on a path to success.
He possesses a holistic approach to development, focusing not only on business progress but also on the personal and professional growth of individuals and the companies he works with. His leadership skills and dedication to all-round development, encompassing his business, people, and companies, contribute to creating a positive and thriving work environment.
About
Education
Kyrgyz National University, Kyrgyz-American Faculty, and Internet
Master's in Computer Science and Engineering
Industries
Transportation
Digital transformation
Blockchain and Crypto
Articles and insights
How to Ensure Transparency in Hybrid Teams
Since the beginning, we have built our processes on a remote-first approach. The teams have always been hybrid, and the time difference with some team members could be up to 14 hours. Asynchronous communication between the team and the stakeholders is insufficient to understand who does what. So, to share information, it was necessary to ensure transparency of processes.We have defined several essential principles for the distributed team or group of teams to work together. Two fundamental aspects can be distinguished:We provide and encourage transparency using the remote work monitoring app and the "all moves are recorded" approach. By showing openly where the time goes, we can look into the word lines in the past to understand what and when they have implemented it. But what do we use in our work? And what helps us to be transparent to the client? This is the subject of our article, so let's analyze it.
Project Management
Organizational Resilience in BANI World
Organizational resilience is an indispensable aspect of the contemporary world, where the notions of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (BANI) have become everyday realities. As Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant argue in their recent book, resilience can be compared to a muscle that contracts during prosperity and expands during adversity.In this article, we will explore the concept of organizational resilience in the BANI world. We will examine how to balance resilience and flexibility in modern business and how to leverage this balance in strategic planning and organizational management in the BANI world.To address VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity), you need 4 key abilities: Vision, Understanding, Clarity, and Agility. While melodious in its syllabic match, this combination may appear somewhat overly simplistic. These abilities are not easily acquired or honed and may not provide a complete solution. Nevertheless, they serve as a valuable starting point.In recent years, the VUCA landscape has shifted to a BANI framework characterized by Brittle, Anxious, Non-Linear, and Incomprehensible factors. Respectively, let's shift our focus toward understanding what it takes to navigate the unique challenges of living in a world of BANI.Various factors have been identified as potential threats to organizational resilience, such as climate change, the rise of COVID-19, record inflation, and world conflicts. All of them will impact how organizations operate, leading to stress, disorientation, and disruption of work processes. Some organizations are closing down, others are restructuring, while the rest are trying to raise efficiency — optimization has become a major phenomenon in recent periods.The advent of remote work, accelerated by the pandemic, presented a significant challenge for organizations across the globe. It demanded rapid adjustment to provide employees with essential tools and bolster their mental and emotional well-being to succeed in this virtual work environment.This shift exposed previously obscured aspects of teams and priorities that were not well-defined when working within the traditional office setting. For many, this revelation has posed obstacles, impacting both their endeavors in digital transformation and the overall vitality of their organizations.Businesses are trying to find explanations and solutions in an attempt to hold onto their positions. Let's see what is the peculiarity of the BANI world, and why it causes wariness:
Mad Vision
How to Optimize Development Costs: Strategies and Best Practices
A few years ago, the market was in a much more favorable position, allowing you to make money much easier and make much larger investments in market research, testing new hypotheses, etc. Any unoptimized costs were not so noticeable against the background of the rapid growth of the market, which provided equally rapid growth for many companies.Now, however, the market is in a position where all budgets are being greatly reduced, and investment in research and development is becoming riskier. Many companies now find themselves needing to better manage their costs rather than trying to enter new markets or provide groundbreaking solutions.It looks like this will continue in 2023 at best and maybe even to 2025. And to survive in these conditions for such a long time, it is not enough for companies to simply reduce costs. They need to optimize all of them. And that's why we're here.
Software Development
