Viktoria
From United Arab Emirates (UTC+3)
Viktoria – Product Strategy, SDLC, Claude LLM
Viktoria is a Senior Product Manager specializing in API and platform products for communications companies, with nearly a decade of experience, including at Twilio. There, she led two product teams, scaled messaging throughput tenfold, from 1,000 to 10,000 requests per second, and took multiple APIs to general availability. She now builds AI products herself, including a Claude-powered monitoring agent with grounding guardrails and a Chrome extension, taking it from idea to launch. She brings a GTM-aware, transparent way of working with sales, engineering, and customers.
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Founder & Product Lead
An LLM-powered monitoring agent that collects public data from 7+ sources, uses Claude to triage and summarize risk, and generates branded reports automatically. It’s offered as a licensed product with defined pricing tiers.
- Built and shipped a Claude-powered AI monitoring agent, from problem definition to production.
- Engineered grounding and evidence-verification guardrails to stop the model from fabricating findings.
- Delivered the product end-to-end for a client engagement.
- Packaged the product as a licensed offering with defined pricing tiers.
Founder & Product Lead
A Chrome extension built end to end with AI-assisted development and launched on the Chrome Web Store.
- Scoped, built, and shipped the Chrome extension end-to-end.
- Validated the problem and iterated on the product through to its Chrome Web Store launch.
- Delivered the product using AI-assisted development.
Senior Product Manager
A new API framework for a CCaaS platform, built to boost indirect sales and open up new customer segments and use cases.
- Led the development of a new API framework from 0 to 1, defining discovery, technical specifications, and delivery with engineering to unlock new customer segments and use cases.
- Launched GDPR-compliant contact management with native integrations into HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho, and the WhatsApp Business Platform.
- Drove quarterly PI planning across product and engineering.
Senior Product Manager
Replacing a partner solution in a CPaaS platform’s core with an in-house one, alongside tech debt resolution, system migrations, and platform reliability improvements.
- Stabilized delivery across a backlog of high-impact technical initiatives, covering tech debt, system migrations, and platform reliability.
- Triaged and reprioritized the roadmap to focus engineering on the highest-risk migration and scalability gaps.
- Restored team velocity and stakeholder confidence within the first quarter.
Product Partnerships Manager
Growing a CPaaS platform’s WhatsApp partnership from almost no traffic to millions of conversations by building a network of 20+ partners in the MENA region and training the sales team.
- Drove an 800% increase in WhatsApp product adoption by building and managing a portfolio of 20+ strategic partnerships, growing traffic from almost nothing to millions of conversations.
- Defined partner selection criteria and led commercial and technical scoping.
- Owned integration roadmaps from first engagement through go-live, and ran quarterly business reviews (QBRs) with partners.
- Trained the sales team on the WhatsApp partnership offering.
- Contributed product evaluation and due diligence to M&A processes, assessing integration complexity and platform fit for acquisition targets.
Product Manager
Core features of a cloud inventory and MRP platform for manufacturers.
- Initiated scalability and reliability improvements to the platform’s core MRP services.
Product Manager
Platform’s core messaging APIs and SDKs (Conversations API, Sync and Messaging SDKs), used by a community of 10+ million developers.
- Led two product teams responsible for the reliability and scalability of core messaging services.
- Scaled platform throughput from 1,000 to 10,000 requests per second.
- Took multiple APIs from beta to general availability, and sunset legacy products to reduce operational overhead.
- Partnered with engineering, sales, and customer success across time zones to prioritize platform investments by customer impact.
Data Analyst & Product Operations
A monitoring system that catches fraudulent and suspicious traffic before customers see it.
- Built monitoring and alerting systems that catch fraudulent and suspicious traffic before it reaches customers.
- Analyzed fraud incidents and trained ML models to detect them.
- Built Python tooling with SQL, pandas, and NumPy.
- Supported product decisions with data pipelines and visualizations.