Sebastian Mineev

🔘 Joined as Senior Backend Engineer; promoted to Product Officer.

🔘 Designed, built and shipped Face Intelligence, QOVES's AI facial analysis SaaS, end to end (97% of commits): a FastAPI backend with 53 REST endpoints, a React and TypeScript frontend, a Django admin portal, Celery and Redis pipelines and Supabase Postgres, gated by 125 CI tests.

🔘 Engineered its computer vision pipeline: MediaPipe face mesh fused with in-house models, iris-calibrated measurement, 61 facial metrics, 382 simulated procedures and Claude analysis.

🔘 Implemented Stripe billing end to end: subscription checkout, billing portal, pause and resume flows and signature-verified webhooks; designed the multi-tier pricing with a one-time premium tier and add-ons.

🔘 Developed iOS and Android companion apps across two generations: Flutter onboarding with QR invite scanning and photo upload, then React Native with Swift and Kotlin native modules for on-device face detection.

🔘 Containerised the platform into seven Docker services with health checks and resource caps.

🔘 Discovered and reported vulnerabilities affecting QOVES's Kubernetes clusters, including a cross-tenant data exposure flaw; assessed severity and implications, and guided remediation within the hour.

🔘 Hardened the platform edge with CSP and HSTS security headers, request rate limiting and fail-fast secret validation.

🔘 As Product Officer, set product and technical direction: stack decisions, specifications and engineering roadmaps, plus internal tools including a real-time revenue and operations dashboard on live Stripe data.

🔘 Led a team to develop secure dashboards integrating data from Microsoft Graph, SharePoint, PowerBI, Tableau and SQL Server to provide real-time project, task, and reporting insights.

🔘 Engineered mobile applications for iOS and Android leveraging the Flutter ecosystem.

🔘 Implemented robust authentication and token management with MSAL and OAuth2, while leveraging Azure Key Vault for secure secret management..

🔘 Built sophisticated chat bots to aid enterprise transformation using Copilot Studios, Power Automate, Azure and OpenAI API.

🔘 Lead the development of a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) subsystem with OpenAI API and Neo4j as the database.

🔘 Developed a suite of RESTful API endpoints to query and merge data from various sources, including Power Automate flows and custom SQL queries.

🔘 Constructed deployment pipelines with Azure DevOps, Git and Docker.

🔘 Developed software infrastructure that is now utilised to process the vast majority of invoices for the London store. This has already onboarded more than £500,000 of incoming stock.

🔘 Received and oversaw all transfers for a large food court of three restaurants, a market, a cafeteria, a bakery, a winery and multiple fresh counters.

🔘 Prepared financial reports and forecasts.

🔘 Digitalised central kitchen transfers.

🔘 Enforced accurate stock control.

🔘 Worked with suppliers to perform returns, report missing stock, and address discrepancies.

🔘 Grew the new facilities management branch of the business from a handful of employees to a team numbering more than 30 people. Advertised, recruited, trained and managed.

🔘 Worked closely with senior decision makers to establish new revenue streams for the company.

🔘 Oversaw and developed analytic, data automation and data processing infrastructure.

🔘 Integrated various functional into our Content Management System (CMS).

🔘 Founded the company along with two friends during my final university year.

🔘 Was at the helm of marketing, software engineering, analytic, fundraising, legal, logistic and customer service aspects of running a company.

🔘 Raised £430,000 from 409 investors in 17 countries.

🔘 Developed and brought to market a subscription service, marketplace, 1hr delivery, store locator and a wholesale platform.

🔘 Was personally responsible for signing-up the first 100 merchants to join our platform. This included retail chains, manufacturers and wholesalers.

🔘 Executed two successful crowdfunding campaigns at multimillion valuations on Seedrs being instrumental to both subscribing the round and producing all the required material in the form of crowdfunding videos, media assets, financial accounts, team memorandums and presentations for fundraising events.

🔘 Organised large teams to attend trade shows, tackle field marketing and support our partner stores. Developed order management, stock management and invoicing functional.