Daniel Bilyk
Product Manager by trade, computer tinkerer by heart. I enjoy diving into the details of both the user's problem and the engineering required to solve it, ensuring we build products that are both loved and reliable. I excel at creating clarity and driving alignment across technical and non-technical teams, and I love building little tools that help people in their day-to-day.
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Skills
Product lifecycle management · Research & discovery · Analytics · Stakeholder management · Customer interviews · Communication · UI/UX principles · API Design & Integration · Automation · AI workflows · Low-Code · AI-Assistants · Service Desk Architecture · Git
Experience
Product Manager, Veact GmbH
Remote | May 2023 - Present
- AI & Automation Strategy: Driving internal AI transformation by designing workflows and conducting workshops that directly upskill non-technical teams on LLM productivity.
- Product Lifecycle Ownership: Leading the full lifecycle for core B2B SaaS products — from discovery and roadmapping to launch — ensuring alignment between business goals and engineering execution.
- Technical Implementation: Managing complex API integrations and security infrastructure, bridging the gap between stakeholder requirements and technical feasibility.
- Workflow Automation: Refined existing localisation process first using a custom GPT for product operations, then by pushing the integration of the agentic-driven localisation process directly into the Bitbucket build pipelines.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Orchestrating alignment across Operations, Sales, and Product teams, ensuring smooth transitions and adoption of new internal tools and customer-facing features.
- Analytical Approach: Pioneered the integration of product analytics and established UI/UX standards, fostering a data-informed culture focused on user experience.
Product Specialist, Veact GmbH
Munich, Germany | May 2021 - May 2023
- Process Architecture: Architected and deployed a centralized Jira Service Management system for 100+ employees, unifying request channels across Marketing, Account Management, and Product departments.
- Workflow Automation: Identified critical bottlenecks in ticket triage and implemented automation rules that reduced manual work by ~20 hours monthly.
- End-to-End Delivery: Managed the full development cycle for new modules (e.g., Landing Pages, Email Integrations), responsible for requirements gathering, sprint planning, and rollout.
- Maintenance: Authored and scaled a comprehensive product knowledge base in Confluence, establishing a single source of truth for internal processes.
Working Student in Operations, Veact GmbH
Munich, Germany | Jun 2018 - May 2021
- Co-managed the end-to-end execution of a marketing operations pipeline, ensuring the timely delivery of ~10,000 personalized communications monthly.
- Identified a critical workflow bottleneck and implemented a centralized tracking system that improved transparency and remains in use today.
Freelance Producer & Audio Engineer, The Ukrainians Media
Remote | 2022 - Present
- Produced several of the media's flagship podcasts, handling show evolution, audio engineering, and distribution.
- Developed internal tools and custom Slack agents to streamline editorial workflows and solve operational challenges.
Education
Technical University of Munich
B.Sc. Political Science | 2017 – 2022
- Specialized in the intersection of technology, policy, and society. Thesis assessed the impact of the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA) on Apple's core platform services. Active participant in coding challenges and courses.
National University «Kyiv Aviation Institute»
Aircraft Maintenance | 2014 – 2016
- Developed a foundational understanding of complex systems and engineering coursework.
Pet Projects
- Pet projects are my playground for testing new tech. See more at bilyk.me/projects.
- Anton (AI Assistant): Architected a Slack-based AI assistant for editorial teams using Python (Bolt/Asyncio) and OpenAI Assistants API. It uses RAG to manage knowledge bases, automates content generation from transcripts, and handles Google Drive syncing via Dockerized microservices.
- Transponster: Technically, the bot uses the ElevenLabs API, Slack API, and Google Drive API, running in a self-hosted Docker container. Practically, it is a bot that saves the editorial team numerous hours by taking an audio/video file in Slack as input and saving a transcript as both a TXT file and a Google Doc in the user folder. It also generates YouTube subtitles for the podcasts in the same step.
- Automation: I believe every problem has a solution in code or no-code. From complex birthday quest bots (simulating GTA missions) to simple Zapier/Make workflows that connect disparate services.
Hobbies
- I have a big love for cars and single-seater motorsport, tech history, and indie-rock music. I love going to live concerts, and I'd like to participate in a 6-hour endurance go-kart race in Ampfing one day.
- I started running recently, training for 15k. I'm trying to get better at taking photographs and saying 'yes' to random travels. Preferably by car. Cars are awesome.
