Cristian Cotosman

As a technical co-founder of a start-up, the greatest challenge but also the most rewarding one is to materialize the vision of the company by choosing the right team members, keeping the unity in a very diverse team (hardware, firmware, software, QA) and also assessing technologies, components and procedures. We managed this, and I mean "we" because all members participated, by bringing to the table knowledge and experience with various fields but also listening to the other team members when they raised possible concerns with choices. Hard work was definitely part of the job for everyone being during the design, implementation, prototyping or testing. Another major challenge is going back to "drawing board" and recognizing our mistakes, but we tackled those moments by understanding that only those persons don't make mistakes who don't work/contribute to the project. A few of my daily tasks, activities and responsibilities you have read if you reached this point, but, being a EU funded start-up (details available on the company's linkedin page) my responsibilities also included:

- numerous and extensive reports for the funding process (and not only);

- managing business processes in regards to rules and laws imposed by funding scheme;

- building and updating forecasts in regards of results expected, comparing with actual results;

- negotiating with suppliers for parts and services essential to the project's success and continuation of the funding (our EU funding had many stages associated to specific technical deliverables) Well, in brief these are my responsibilities that I happily bared and continue to do so till the day I will quit this position. Main technologies used are .NET (BT, RT plotting, WCF, etc.), embedded C firmware and for hardware Texas Instruments, Wurth Electronics and many more For even more info and details about my life as a product and solution designer or as CTO I'm always available for a chat/call/meeting, of course with prior scheduling.

After meeting Mahesh Nair in 2015 we embarked together on a joint venture, a new path in my career. I had already experience with enterprise software development, team management at various scales, R&D as well as QA for many years and customer interaction, training as well as requirement gathering so it sounded appealing to work in the space of enterprise software but from a leading position able to shape the outcome of the products, projects, architecture, doing the requirements gathering with the customer, provide solutions for their pain points as well as do and oversee deployments and roll-outs. Being curious by nature and eager to do new and exiting things, naturally it sounded tempting. I started first by developing a few components and later on, as the potential grew as well as clients requirements (more complex projects), I took on more responsibilities including end to end project deliveries. Mahesh was always with the nice ideas and took care of the customer acquisition and we took care of the rest, offering the solutions to the pain-points, creating the necessary architecture(s) and implementing the solutions for CRMs/ERPs (including fleet management, assets management, document management, marketing automation, call center solutions and many more). Key responsibilities include client meetings, consulting, delivering business proposals, RFP's, estimations, requirements gathering, designing and implementing security measures for customer platform (data security, high availability, data persistence, system security) lead the design team and deliver value to the clients. Proud to say that during my time we implemented solution for prestigious clients like TATA Assets Management and TATA Mutual Fund, Fino Payment Bank, Special Economic Zone Authority (SEZA) Botswana just to name a few. A few of the technologies we used are KVM virtualization, python 2.7/3.x (incl. libraries), PHP symphony, PostgreSQL, DB clustering and load balancing, nginx as reverse proxy

As a Physics and Mathematics graduate, I felt happy to be part of the local school (mid-school and high school) as substitute teacher for physics and IT&C. This allowed me to participate in the growth process of the new generations as well as refine my presentation and training skills. During my time as a teacher I had the pleasure of working with and guiding bright students, even some who today are engineers or in technical fields. As a notable achievement would like to mention that I started for the mid school students a physic circle as a way to discuss their interest regarding phenomena that they observed or noticed but not covered in the national curricula as well as after school assistance to final year students preparing for their baccalaureate.