Ivan Kobiakov
Ivan Kobiakov, Иван Кобяков

Ivan Kobiakov

Project Manager/ Business Analyst/ Digital Transformation Officer

About Me

If you're seeking a versatile IT professional especially with applied expertise in the energy sector, let's connect! I'm Ivan Kobiakov.

My role typically comes into play when developers label a task as complex and unattainable within tight timelines, yet the business can't afford any further delays. I specialize in refining and streamlining long-overdue digitalization of business processes, validating hypotheses through MVPs, offering crisis resolutions for business challenges via IT solutions, and working with data, especially when the data culture goes beyond Excel and isolated SQL/NoSQL databases.

As a highly autonomous professional, I excel at independently tackling assigned tasks while proactively generating innovative solutions. Let's connect and explore possibilities!

Bio

Age
31 
Email
ivan@kobiakov.ru
Telegram
@kobivan
Phone
Ask me via email or telegram
Address
Austria, Israel, Russia

Professional Skills

Python
Master
Machine Learning and Neural Networks
Expert
IT/PKI infrastructure and Digital signing
Expert
ETL and BI
Master
Linear programming and Spatial analysis
Master
Network protocols and Distributed systems
Expert
IT governance
Master
Business process management
Master
Project management
Master
Technical specifications
Master
Privacy and data security
Expert
Digital transformation
Master

Work Experience

Digital transformation supervisor at Inter RAO
November, 2019 - March, 2024

Inter RAO is a diversified energy holding company headquartered in Moscow, with a broad range of business activities including power and heat generation, electricity supply, international energy trading, engineering, design, and development of electric power infrastructure.

As a Digitalization Manager at Inter RAO, my primary objectives were to implement a data-driven decision-making process via an online reporting system and participate in fast Minimum Viable Product (MVP) development with a limited budget. Specifically, I achieved the following:

  1. Successfully implemented a Tableau system from scratch, which created 130 online dashboards.
  2. Organized Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes based on Airflow.
  3. Led an MVP experiment as an owner in demand response.
  4. Managed a group of business and data analysts, utilizing Jira and Jupyterhub.
  5. Co-authored changes to one industry law.
  6. Completed over 25 MVP projects using various Python-based technologies, such as web applications, data analysis, and linear programming models.
  7. Managed the integration with e-Government services.

My achievements in these areas significantly contributed to Inter RAO's digital transformation, bringing a positive impact to the company's decision-making process and providing cost-effective solutions.

Python · ETL · Data mining · Web dev · Project management · Technical specifications · Business process management · IT governance · Digital transformation · Linear programming · Linux · Tableau Server · Jupyterhub · Airflow

Deputy head of department - data analyst at PPK "REO"
May, 2019 - Sep, 2019

I worked as part of a team at PPK "REO", a company that invests in and oversees environmental companies in the field of waste management. In my role, I was responsible for developing a mathematical model that optimizes transport problems, using open source libraries (pulp) and Google distance matrix API.

Python · Data mining · Tableau · Project management · Technical specifications · Linear programming · Spatial analysis

IT Engineer at Mosenergo
Dec, 2015 - May, 2019

As an IT Engineer at Mosenergo, the largest energy supply company in Russia, my responsibilities included:

  1. Developing billing systems
  2. Implementing ETL processes
  3. Machine learning (scoring)
  4. PKI and digital signing implementation
  5. Integration with e-Government services

Python · Data mining · Tableau · Cisco Networks · Digital signing · Spatial analysis · IT governance · Privacy and data security

Education

Master in Digital Economy from Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
2023 - present
Master in Business Informatics - Big data systems from Higher School of Economics
2015 - 2017
Final grade GPA 8,66 | Number of credits 120
Data security in network CCNA from IITC Israel
2014 - 2015
Bachelor of Business Informatics from Higher School of Economics
2010 - 2014
Number of credits 257

Contact

@kobivan
ivan@kobiakov.ru