Ask HN: How can I help you?

I'd like to discover if my skills are useful by applying them to solve someone's challenges. If talking to me might help you - please drop me an email or schedule a call (the address is in the profile). Free & no strings attached.

About me:

- co-founder/ex-CTO/ex-CPO of a russian company with $15M arr

- people usually describe me as a "smart guy"

- had to solve a problem that required using nlp, so i organized data labelling team, finetuned BERT, and integrated it into a larger system

- know some finance. unit economy, operating costs, that sort of thing

- did a lot of a/b tests and conversion experiments

- bitmap indexes, fractal trees, k-d trees - i like indexes and trees

- developed software using python, golang, php, c++

- clickhouse user for 3 or 4 years. also, mongodb, vertica, presto

- did some custdev and qualitative interviews

- have some experience managing outbound sales reps; but still, i'm a builder/hacker, not a hustler

(I realize this post looks a bit like a sneaky "hire me" post - but i assure you, that is not my intention)

How did you get to that point?

What roles did you do before that to be able to step up into being taken seriously for that kind of role?

I’m in the odd? Position of being more commercially experienced and less technically experienced than most (senior)/software engineers. Right now I fall into wanting to prove my chops technically and building new products/ mvp’s while also guiding devs on other projects.

Obviously it’s a world of difference between a start up and a f500 company in terms of what a CTO would do so feel free to think CTO at startups <100 employees size etc.

Have any connections?

CTO's would likely love to know you have their back and that they can come to you to ask for 2nd opinion (or even 1st ;) ).