Konstantin Safonov
Head Of Business Development And Partnerships at MEGOGO
Greater Edmonton Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolKonstantin Safonov is a growth-focused business development leader with 14 years of experience building global partnerships, product integrations, and go-to-market strategies across media, smart TV, and platform ecosystems. As Head of Business Development and Partnerships at MEGOGO, he led pioneering bundled launches with YouTube Premium and cross-platform bundles with Netflix and Setanta Sports, and previously drove MEGOGO’s device and store expansions across Samsung, LG, Huawei, Sony PlayStation and more. He combines commercial negotiation skills with technical integration know-how—having managed multi-million-dollar budgets and acted as a bridge between R&D and CxO stakeholders to deliver seamless app rollouts. Earlier roles at LG Electronics and Ukrtelecom show a track record of launching services from scratch, monetizing content partnerships, and navigating regulatory and localization challenges. A pragmatic operator who values measurable results, he also contributes to open source back-end work on the well-known Mono project, demonstrating hands-on engineering instincts uncommon in pure BD roles. Based in the Greater Edmonton area, he brings cross-cultural experience across CIS, Europe, China and North America to scale digital media products globally.
14 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree International Economic Relations Translator/interpreter (English), Master’s Degree International Economic Relations Translator/interpreter (English) at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
Russian, Ukrainian, English, Czech
Github Skills (6)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet-new10
dotnet10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
mono/mono
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Mono open source ECMA CLI, C# and .NET implementation.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 44 PRs, 12 comments in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Konstantin primarily contributed to the `System.Web` components of the Mono project, focusing on implementing and updating methods and properties within the `HttpRequest`, `HttpRequestBase`, and `HttpRequestWrapper` classes. Their work involved adding missing methods, updating existing ones, and aligning the code with reference versions. Furthermore, the user added missing `DeliveryFormat` property to `MailClient` which allows to build sources referencing it on mono.
dotnetjitruntimemonoandroid
kasthack-labs/kasthack.PhotoSorter
Aug 2014 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 6 years 7 months
image-processingmanual
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