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I work where engineering meets business, translating between what's technically possible and what the business needs. I build the structure that lets teams in AI-driven healthcare and legaltech ship predictably: processes, planning rhythms, documentation, and tracking people trust. I used to think the hard part was the plan. It isn't. The hard part is testing the idea early enough to find out you were wrong.

A Master's in Technology Management and a background in linguistics come together in how I work. Studying language trained me to look for structure, patterns, rules, and exceptions, and that habit now shapes how I approach complex systems.

Uliana Khmel
⭐ Ownership mindset
πŸš€ Scope to production
🧩 Order from chaos
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Years in project and delivery leadership
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Years in business operations
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Of annual company revenue: full delivery ownership of key accounts
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Master’s degrees with distinctions
Where I've worked

Experience

Oct 2026 – Present
BrainKey
Business Operations & Project Management
  • Design and implement operational processes and playbooks, bringing structure to software development workflows, sprint planning, and releases.
  • Own project and task tracking as the team’s single source of truth, and automate recurring status reporting.
  • Lead projects across functions, coordinating planning, execution, and stakeholder communication.
  • Build the team’s knowledge base, including product and technical documentation.
Jun 2022 – Present
DreamProIT
Business Operations Consultant
Oct 2026 – Present

After serving as COO & CX Lead, I now support DreamProIT as a consultant, leading financial operations and reporting, guiding enterprise contract renewals, and helping leadership keep operations predictable and well documented.

COO & Customer Experience Lead
Jun 2022 – Oct 2026
  • Standardized business operations by developing and implementing company-wide procedures and playbooks for project management, HR, sales, and software development.
  • Translated complex customer business requirements into technical goals, coordinating cross-functional teams to ensure software delivery aligned with client needs.
  • Supported U.S. market expansion and managed relationships with strategic enterprise customers.
  • Directed content strategy, branding, and copywriting for all company platforms, including the corporate blog and social media.
  • Orchestrated recruitment strategy and conducted interviews for a distributed team of 20+ full-time and hourly contractors.
  • Completed a 12-week intensive at the Legal Innovation Zone (Toronto Metropolitan University) to move a POC toward a market-ready MVP, focusing on initial customer development.
May 2023 – Jun 2024
Govable.ai
Government Outreach
  • Developed and executed outreach strategies to establish partnerships between the organization and government entities.
  • Served as an official participant at the 4th LegisTech Forum on behalf of the company, engaging in Q&A with parliamentary speakers from Ukraine, Ireland, and Costa Rica on their modernization efforts.
  • Identified and vetted potential opportunities for collaboration with government agencies and relevant public sector organizations.
Dec 2019 – Apr 2022
Regulus Team
Project Manager
  • Managed the full project lifecycle, including scope, budgeting, documentation, workload capacity, and client communications.
  • Acted as the primary point of contact for accounts generating 80% of the company's annual income.
  • Secured two long-term projects accounting for 50% of total annual revenue and led proactive lead generation and client nurturing.

Before this, I spent 5 years writing content, with shorter stretches in administrative support at university and in customer experience at an outsourcing company.


Tools & competencies
Skills & Tools
Operations & Strategy
Business Operations (BizOps)Strategic PlanningSOP DevelopmentChange ManagementBudgeting & Resource Allocation
Project & Product
Full SDLC ManagementAgile MethodologiesMVP DevelopmentRoadmap PlanningQuality AssuranceTechnical Writing
Customer & Growth
Customer Experience (CX)Strategic PartnershipsAccount ManagementB2B Sales
Leadership & HR
Distributed Team ManagementRecruitment StrategyPerformance ManagementCross-functional Leadership
Tech & Tools
Atlassian SuiteCRM SoftwareCMSFigmaCanvaBalsamiqGitGitHubVisual Studio CodeClaude Code

Speaking & industry events

Speaking & Events

Academic background

Education

MSc (Magna Cum Laude), Technology Management
UCU Business School
Thesis: “Designing a Productized Hybrid Search Development Service for Legislative Data”
MA (Hons), English Language & Literature
Chernivtsi National University
Thesis: “Pragmatic Idioms in Modern English-Language Cinematic Discourse”
Legal Innovation Zone at Toronto Metropolitan University
12-week program that helps future legal tech entrepreneurs develop their proof of concept into a market-ready product
Selected writing & features

Selected Publications

FeaturedUCU Business School

Short program video for UCU Business School, alongside a fellow student. My take: the coursework clicked right away with my real work, helping me step back and see it from a wider angle.

AuthorLinkedIn

Reflection on how my MSc cohort, not the coursework, shaped the way I lead and listen today.

FeaturedLegal Innovation Zone

Interview on how the Sprint Studio program helped validate β€” and ultimately pause β€” a legal tech business model before over-investing in a solution that wasn’t market-ready.

AuthorLinkedIn

Carousel on how AI trained on historical legal data can absorb under-representation, historical, judicial, and base-rate bias, and what responsible design requires to counter it.

FeaturedBΓΊssola Tech

Panel on Ukraine’s parliamentary modernization, featuring me as one of the commentators.

AuthorDreamProIT

Breakdown of five core principles for ethical AI development, and the risks of skipping them.

FeaturedAtlassian

Official Atlassian Community recap of Team’23, listing my on-demand session, “Building a Digital Team in Ukraine Powered by Atlassian Tools,” among the conference’s featured sessions.

FeaturedDreamProIT

Profile on my path from studying linguistics to becoming COO at DreamProIT, and how my background shaped my approach to managing technical teams.

Off the Clock

Hobbies & Interests

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Books & Reading
I’m rarely without a book in progress, usually five or six at once. I’m a mood reader: deep in fantasy, with a steady return to contemporary fiction and a fresh dive into sci-fi. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld is forever a favorite (30 books in, and still counting). J.R.R. Tolkien has my deepest respect as linguist and writer.
My book catalog πŸ“š β†—
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Handmade & Crochet
I like making things by hand: book nooks, embroidery, projects built from scratch, with crochet as my biggest passion. My largest project so far was made from 14 skeins of yarn, 120+ hours of work, with custom adjustments rather than a straight pattern.
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Languages & Etymology
I like taking languages apart: their structure, history, the strange new shapes the current world is pushing them into. At university, I studied German, alongside some basics of French and Italian, then carried that curiosity on my own into a for-fun attempt at Norwegian (Jeg heter Uliana og jeg liker Γ₯ lese bΓΈker pΓ₯ engelsk).
Get in touch

Open to collaboration, advisory work,
or the right next opportunity

I’ve spent my career translating between software engineers and business, and I’m always curious what others are working through. Let’s talk!

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