Vitalii Rizo
Engineering & Operations Manager In Brevo Conversations
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVitalii Rizo is an engineering and operations leader based in Berlin with over a decade of B2B SaaS experience and nine years in hands-on product engineering and team leadership. He currently leads Brevo Conversations, owning product and technical roadmaps for a real-time messaging platform that spans chat, bots, email, WhatsApp and social channels, while managing a compact, high-performing team with one meeting per sprint. Known for bridging engineers, PMs and designers, he emphasizes practical problem-solving, clear requirements, and future-proof architecture over trivia-driven technical assessments. His background includes founding and exiting a service business, leading front-end reliability initiatives with 95% test coverage, and integrating acquired products post-merger—demonstrating both entrepreneurial grit and operational rigor. Outside work he balances engineering with a human side (and a soft spot for dogs), reflecting an unusually pragmatic, people-first approach to scaling product teams.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Nuclear Engineering, Master's degree Nuclear Engineering at Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (96)
visual-testing10
playing10
minification10
media-queries10
pause10
svgo10
javascript9
optimizer9
svg-files9
astroturf9
cli9
music9
testing9
emoji9
realtime9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vrizo/uibook
Nov 2018 - Jan 2021
Lightweight tool for React components visual testing with media queries
Contributions:101 commits, 1 PR, 71 pushes in 2 years 3 months
reacttestingvisual-testingvisual-componentsmedia-queries
vrizo/babel-plugin-transform-typograf
Dec 2017 - Jul 2019
Automatically formats your translations in JS
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 1 year 7 months
template-literalstranslationstranslationjavascriptinternationalization
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