A remarkable step in my career of evolving a technological startup from a bare concept to an enterprise-level platform for Civil Construction, Mining, and UAV monitoring.
I joined the core team at the seed stage. We were one of the few pioneers who saw an opportune moment to unleash the full potential of UAV drones by reimagining the Civil Construction and Mining site management industries — delivering fast and precise data to a Cloud-platform for engineers and management.
That success wasn't easy and secured, considering such conservative businesses of our customers. It resulted from hard and passionate teamwork and a proactive custdev process with ongoing explorations and experiments with new areas of product-market fit.
My commitment was both strategic and technical:
•My vision for modular design architecture was a cornerstone that allowed product scalability, pivots, and transformation to a solid product-market fit.
•Carrying out dozens of interviews and ongoing prototyping-testing cycles resulted in identifying key takeaways and rendering a final functionality and system model (Data consumption model, accounts hierarchy, users' workspaces).
•Crafted UI visuals and animation. It's something that is not inherent to the UI of engineering products. The user's experience (the look and feel) for the majority of them are at most like CAD products back in the early 2000s. But whenever is a limitation, there's always a chance. So by putting the end-user's experience in focus, advocating for a team's empathy, and engaging with every detail, I captured the opportunity to stand out from the competitors' landscape.
•To speak a shared language with end-users and better understand the context, I dove deep into GIS's domain and tech aspects. It almost caused me to become a landmark engineer and drone operator, but that journey was full of fun for me.
Owing to NDA, I can't reveal the project's name, but to give a clue, the primary competitor was Propeller Aero.
