Sophia Kurianski
Bachelor of Engineering (Advanced) (First Class Honours) (Mechatronics)
Bachelor of Science (Computer Science)
Associate Director, Product Manager
Product manager at one of Australia’s oldest bank, looking after real-time payment and securities settlement products. Managing transition of institutional customers to distributed ledger technology and blockchain. Collaborating with a variety of stakeholders, including technology team, design, legal, compliance, management, client engagement teams, and business partners to deliver product initiatives successfully.
Founder and Head of Product
As founder and head of product, spearheaded the end-to-end development of a 3D software platform, leading product conception, design, and launch, conducted user interviews to drive product features, managed a cross-functional team of engineers and marketing contractors, analyzed product usage data to inform the feature roadmap.
Product Management Consultant
Strategic product management consulting for government clients, including Transport for NSW and the Australian Space Agency to enhance digital service offerings. Managed stakeholders to define product requirements, created development plans and deliver technical outcomes.
Software Engineer
Developed cloud computing back-end systems in Java and Kotlin, and assisted in managing the delivery of a new cloud product for Amazon Web Services.
Engineering Product Analyst
Worked on web-based technologies for systems engineering frameworks and safety technology for rail systems.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineering Intern
Created Python, JavaScript and Java back-end web systems which used AI machine learning algorithms to automatically generate financial documents.
- International Design Conference 2024 Speaker
- Rising Star Women in Engineering 2023 Award
- Genesis Startup Program Winner
- SYNCS Hackathon (2nd Place)
- Microsoft Imagine Cup Hackathon ANZ Finalist
- UniHack Microsoft Hackathon Prize Winner
- Sydney University Leadership Scholarship
Product Management
- Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Jira
- Product Lifecycle Management
- User Research
- Stakeholder Engagement
- UX/UI Design
Technologies
- Javascript/Typescript
- Java/Kotlin
- C++
- Python
- Blockchain Development
- AWS, Azure GCP Cloud Services
Data Analysis
- Data-driven user insights
- Mixpanel
- Amplitude
- Google Analytics
- DataDog
- Dashboard tools
Blockchain, Fintech, DeFi, AI, Quantum Computing, Innovation, Product Design