Vladislav Kazantsev

Finstar Financial Group is an international private investment advisory company with around US$2 billion of assets under management. I enhanced and standardized documentation for complex software systems, directly contributing to the firm’s compliance, client communication, and growth objectives.

Company website: https://www.finstar.com

Responsibilities

• Front-end development of technical documentation for information, methodological and marketing purposes, operational documents (technical specifications, manuals for users, administrators, managers, etcetera) in a web format using HTML, CSS, JS (JavaScript, a foundational programming language for web development), and Web APIs, ensuring user-friendly experience that enhances engagement and performance. Showed expertise in:
  • ECMAScript advanced features.
  • Asynchronous programming.
  • Performance optimization.
  • In-depth Event Loop and Concurrency Model understanding.
  • Advanced Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) techniques.
  • Functional Programming (FP) principles.
• Designing and styling of documentation for marketing purposes, ensuring that technical content is informative and also visually appealing. This leads to the creation of engaging documents that effectively communicate complex information.
• Interaction with other specialists as part of the front-end development of technical and operational documentation.
• Description of technical solutions from the point of view of an information technology specialist together with developers, ensuring clarity and understanding for audiences to support user comprehension.
• Development and design of highly detailed business process models, contributing to a clearer understanding of workflows for improved project efficiency.
• Maintaining the knowledge base within the company.

Achievements

• Thanks to my work and personal qualities, I am the first technical writer in the history of the company. I developed and maintained a complete documentation package from scratch, comprising hundreds of interactive documents, including technical specifications, API guides, and user manuals, using modern front-end web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS, Web APIs). This work enhanced the company's image, improved the competitive advantage of products, and increased the visual appeal and usability of the documentation.
• Updated and maintained the internal knowledge base, making important information easily accessible to employees and minimizing the time spent searching for necessary resources.
• Created detailed business process diagrams, leading to improved project efficiency by enhancing understanding of workflows.
• Designed and styled documentation for marketing purposes, resulting in increased user engagement and significantly improving comprehension of complex information.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to ensure the accuracy of technical solutions, facilitating clearer understanding of technologies and reduced the need for additional support.
• Developed a style guide to standardize documentation practices within the company, improving the quality and consistency of created materials.
• Showed the ability to work in accelerated mode to meet client needs, maintaining a high level of quality and receiving commendations from management for achieved results.

YADRO is focused on creating highly efficient technologies and innovative hardware platforms.

Company website: https://yadro.com/en

Responsibilities

• Development of a diverse set of high-quality documentation for hardware and software systems, ensuring clarity and usability for users.
• Participation in the use of best practices and tools to ensure the quality, accuracy, and relevance of technical documentation.
• Conducting reviews to ensure the documentation quality.
• Productive interaction with major customers, including production teams, product managers, and marketing personnel, to gather insights and requirements that informed documentation strategies and content.

Achievements

• The creation of documentation facilitated the timely completion of contracts, that enabled the company to receive payments.
• Pioneered the company's first comprehensive API documentation, implementing a standardized approach that reduced developer onboarding time.
• Participated in implementing automation for translating documents into multiple languages, minimizing localization efforts, expanding the user audience, and significantly improving global team efficiency and knowledge accessibility. This resulted in an approximately 25% reduction in localization time, leading to increased productivity, cost savings, and faster time-to-market for localized content.

Factory of Information Technology (FIT) is an IT company developing technologies, products, and solutions for smart cities.

Company website: https://fabit.ru

• Development of documentation for automated systems, software, and hardware-software complexes.
• Paperwork using government and corporate standards.
• Participation in the development and maintenance of the company's products at all stages of the life cycle in terms of documentation.
• Participation in testing the developed software products in terms of the description of test methods and configurable parameters.
• Interaction with technical specialists on the development of documentation.

Petrochemical Engineering is a design institute that develops documentation for equipment for the petrochemical industry.

Company website: https://www.nhibel.ru

My responsibilities included the development of documentation for equipment for the petrochemical industry in AutoCAD.