Emil Sugaipov
I’m a product manager with a technical background, originally from Baku, Azerbaijan. I’ve built products for compliance, health and finance: from a platform for banks to a database of 120,000 cosmetics.
Currently
- Building Skindly, an AI‑powered app for people with problem skin
- Advising CSB Investors Group on AI adoption
- Travelling, and hoping to make it to Australia soon 🦘
- Looking for a PM role on an AI product
I can help with
- Discovery, roadmap, pricing and go-to-market
- AI features, from prototype to production: RAG, prompt design, evals
- MVPs and experiments: from hypothesis to measured impact
- Product metrics and analytics: SQL, Amplitude, Metabase
- Explaining technical decisions and their cost to the business
- Automation with APIs and no-code tools
- Teams from scratch: hiring, processes, learning
Past
- 2021–NowFounder @ Skindly, a database of 120,000 cosmetics worldwide
- 2022–2026Product Owner @ Trustform, all-in-one compliance platform
- 2019–2022Technical Consultant @ Investors Europe, a brokerage
- 2016–2022Founder @ Lumen Works, digital agency for pharma brands
- 2016–2018Co-founder @ Unity Platform, multi-asset trading platform
- 2015–2016Software Engineer @ SeoPult, an SEO platform
- 2012–2014Software Engineer @ E‑Global Trade Group, a financial group
- 2010–2014Higher School of Economics, Management Information Systems
Current interests
- New places and new people: 32 countries, lived in three for months
- All things AI tools and apps
- Anything with a racket: tennis, padel, ping-pong
- Fujifilm, film and other 90s gear
- Starting to collect vinyl
- Tesla and EVs
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