Artem Kholodenko
Engineering Leader | VPE | Series A–E Startups | AI Strategy | Marketplaces, Fintech, HealthTech, AgTech, SaaS | Ex-Instacart, FBN
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About
Strategic engineering leader with experience building high-performing teams and delivering innovative, user-centric products across fintech, marketplaces, and SaaS startups. Proven success scaling engineering organizations from seed to growth stage, leading 0-to-1 initiatives, and driving business impact in cross-functional environments. Passionate about solving problems in the real world via product engineering, team culture, and sustainable delivery.
Experience
Feb 2021 to Jul 2023
Leading the Finance and Crop Insurance engineering teams in solving problems at the intersection of fintech and ag tech.
Jul 2020 to Feb 2021
Lead the product engineer team focused on the customer browse experience.
Aug 2019 to Jul 2020
Lead the product engineer team, focused on the customer at/in-store grocery pickup experience.
Apr 2014 to Oct 2018
BuildZoom is a marketplace for remodeling and construction that makes it simple, safe and easy to zoom in on the right contractor for your next home renovation or building project.
Feb 2013 to Mar 2014
• led full-cycle efforts to launch new versions of inPowered's content marketing platform • hands on front-end development and back-end architecture • updated and maintained user manager system • owned engineering-wide Agile/SCRUM process, using Jira • led team on prioritizing, project management, and collaborating with other teams/departments • led cross-functional efforts with executives, marketing, sales, product management, and devops • PHP, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, jQuery, HighCharts, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Web Services, REST, JSON, MySQL, AWS, Memcached
Feb 2011 to Feb 2013
• led full-cycle engineering effort to launch inPowered's content marketing platform • hands on front-end development and back-end architecture • launched user manager system • evangelized engineering-wide Agile/SCRUM process, using Jira • led team on prioritizing, project management, and collaborating with other teams/departments • led cross-functional efforts with executives, marketing, sales, product management, and devops • PHP, CodeIgniter, JavaScript, jQuery, HighCharts, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, Web Services, REST, JSON, MySQL, AWS, Memcached
Apr 2010 to Jan 2011
• updated and maintained the audio/video player used across MySpace.com • launched the MySpaceID AS3 SDK, MySpace HTML5 Video Player, Trends apps • maintained MySpace PhotoSlider themes, SuperPost Video Recorder/Photo taker • ActionScript 3, Flash, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5
Apr 2008 to Apr 2010
• launched a ground-up rewrite of the audio/video player used across MySpace.com • maintained MySpace PhotoSlider themes, SuperPost Video Recorder/Photo taker • ActionScript 3, Flash, JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5
Jan 2006 to Apr 2008
• launched dozens of lead generation landing pages • launched company project management application and web development automation tool • cross-functional efforts with sales, marketing, traffic departments • .NET, C#, JavaScript, ASP, HTML, CSS, MS SQL Server, Stored Procedures
Jun 2005 to Dec 2005
• headed development and execution of test plans • prototyped web application to manage projects and time allocation • Perl, MySQL, MS Project
Jun 2004 to Sep 2004
• developed test plans and implemented automated regression workflows for Applied FAB300 Console APIs • proprietary scripting language
Jun 2001 to Oct 2003
• designed graphics, developed features, assisted in product management, developed and implemented test plans • ASP, HTML, CSS, SQL
Education
BS/BA, Computer Science, Russian
High School Diploma, General Studies