Ivo

Product leader with 8 years of PM experience across fintech, payments, and AI — and 5 years in technical SaaS roles. Currently building an AI-powered demand validation platform. Open to PM / PO roles across fintech, AI, and SaaS.

Product Lead - Boffo.ai - Montreal, Canada

(2023-01)

• Defined product vision, roadmap, and GTM strategy for an AI-powered demand validation platform targeting early-stage founders.
• Identified a gap in the validation landscape through three years of independent venture exploration and competitive research.
• Shipped a live proof of concept in six weeks, scoring ideas against a dataset of 200,000+ startups and 50,000+ investment rounds.

Product Owner - Mansion - Sofia, Bulgaria

(2021-03 - 2022-12)

• Owned end-to-end product lifecycle for a bespoke marketing campaign platform serving a fast-moving commercial operation.
• Translated business requirements into shippable specs for an agile team, covering brief intake, campaign logic, and reporting.
• Defined features from discovery through delivery, balancing speed of execution with product quality.

Sr. Product Manager - Nexo.io - Sofia, Bulgaria

(2020-11 - 2021-03)

• Led roadmap for crypto lending, yield, and custody features serving retail and institutional users.
• Shipped regulated financial products at speed in a market defined by ambiguity and compliance complexity.
• Worked cross-functionally with engineering, compliance, and design to deliver at scale.

Product Analyst - Checkout.com - London, United Kingdom

(2016-11 - 2019-12)

• Worked on core payment infrastructure including 3D Secure and a tokenisation programme with Visa and Mastercard.
• Implemented an incident management process for company wide infrastructure, issuer flows, network rules, fraud tradeoffs, and scheme dynamics.
• Bridged technical and commercial requirements across one of the fastest-growing payments platforms in Europe.

Founder - ALLLiN!N Magazine - Toronto, Canada

(2013-08 - 2016-08)

• Built a creator-focused publishing platform from concept to launch, owning vision, roadmap, and backlog end-to-end.
• Shipped core features across content creation, publishing workflows, discovery, and reader engagement.
• Established KPIs and analytics framework to steer roadmap decisions and drive product-led growth.

Jr. DBA & Release Integrations Analyst - PointClickCare.com - Mississauga, Canada

(2009-08 - 2013-09)

• Supported production database environments for a HIPAA-compliant healthcare SaaS platform.
• Coordinated software releases across engineering, QA, and third-party integration partners.
• Built runbooks and operational documentation that reduced release risk and single points of knowledge.

Information Technology Management - Ryerson University (2006 - 2009)

Computer Science & Information Systems - University of Toronto (2002 - 2004)