Olegs

Olegs Belousovs
Product Management

With almost two decades of experience in product management and technology, primarily within the classifieds ads marketplace (Bakeca.it), financial services mobile app (Oval Money), and online price comparison platform (Facile.it) sectors, I’ve honed my skills as a Front-end Engineer, UX Designer, Project and Product manager. This diverse background equips me to lead product teams empathetically and navigate complex challenges.

Specializing in Agile Methodologies, I excel at managing complex digital products and fostering a collaborative environment. My preference for multidisciplinary teams ensures a silo-free approach and drives innovation. I believe in leading by example, empowering teams with autonomy, and making data-informed decisions that align with company goals and customer needs.

Passionate about leveraging emerging technologies, I’m committed to delivering products that anticipate customer needs. My “build, measure, learn” mindset fuels a culture of experimentation and creativity while maintaining a clear focus on the vision.

Beyond my professional pursuits, I’m an active member of the Web Community, attending tech conferences and contributing to open-source initiatives. In my free time, I enjoy hiking, travelling, photography, vinyl collecting, and staying informed through paper books. I’m a strong advocate for Open Culture, valuing trust, transparency, and collaboration.

The Events and Conferences I Attended

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  • TEDxCrocetta – “Embrace The Challenge” – November 29, 2015 – Turin, Italy
  • Volontariato al WPDay – November 13, 2015 – Pordenone, Italy
  • WordCamp Europe 2015 – June 26-28, 2015 – Seville, Spain

I often attend local Meetups, Creative Mornings Turin and other tech and design events in various Turin communities.

The Books I Read

Favourite Books

 

  1. The 5 Types of Wealth – Sahil Bloom
  2. Liminal Thinking – Dave Gray
  3. Gamestorming – Dave Gray
  4. Radical Focus – Christina Wodtke
  5. Build Better Products – Laura Klein
  6. Make Time – Jake Knapp & John Zeratsky
  7. Rework – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  8. Remote: Office Not Required – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  9. It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work – Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hansson
  10. Shape Up – Ryan Singer
  11. Laws of UX – Jon Yablonski
  12. User Story Mapping – Jeff Patton
  13. You Have Too Much Shit – Chris Ballantine-Thomas
  14. What You Do Is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz
  15. Indistractable – Nir Eyal & Julie Li
  16. Making Ideas Happen – Scott Belsky
  17. Maximize Your Potential – Jocelyn K. Glei
  18. Make Your Mark – Jocelyn K. Glei
  19. Sprint – Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky & Braden Kowitz
  20. Going Responsive – Karen Mcgrane
  21. Sass for Web Designers – Dan Cederholm
  22. Demystifying Public Speaking – Lara Hogan
  23. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love – Marty Cagan
  24. Atomic Design – Brad Frost
  25. Resilient Web Design – Jeremy Keith
  26. Intercom on Product Management
  27. Intercom On Starting Up
  28. Building a Device Lab – Destiny Montague & Lara Hogan
  29. Design for Real Life – Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher
  30. Resilient Management – Lara Hogan
  31. Essentialism – Greg McKeown
  32. Material World: A Global Family Portrait – Peter Menzel
  33. Learning Agile: Understanding Scrum, XP, Lean, and Kanban – Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
  34. Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age
  35. How to Lead in Product Management: Practices to Align Stakeholders, Guide Development Teams, and Create Value Together
  36. La guerra nel team: Racconto sulle 5 disfunzioni del lavoro di squadra
  37. Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)
  38. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future – Ashlee Vance
  39. Outcomes Over Output: Why customer behavior is the key metric for business success
  40. Reinventing Organizations: An Illustrated Invitation to Join the Conversation on Next-Stage Organizations
  41. This Is Lean: Resolving the Efficiency Paradox
  42. Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value
  43. Understanding Privacy
  44. You’re My Favorite Client
  45. Just Enough Research
  46. Design Is a Job
  47. Evidence-Guided: Creating High Impact Products in the Face of Uncertainty
  48. Fifty Quick Ideas to Improve Your User Stories
  49. Impact Mapping: Making a Big Impact with Software Products and Projects
  50. Agile Product Management with Scrum: Creating Products That Customers Love
  51. Unsubscribe: How to Kill Email Anxiety, Avoid Distractions, and Get Real Work Done

 

Mixed Books

 

  1. Product Operations – Melissa Perri & Denise Tilles
  2. Job Moves – Ethan Bernstein, Michael B. Horn, and Bob Moesta
  3. A Pocket Guide to Front-End Style Guides
  4. Surviving Change at Work
  5. Lizard Optimization: Unlock Product Growth By Engaging Long-Tail Users
  6. Everyday Information Architecture
  7. The Best of Lenny’s Newsletter: Volume 1
  8. Flexible Typesetting
  9. Going Offline
  10. Walden
  11. Le 7 regole per avere successo
  12. How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish
  13. Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
  14. The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone – Especially Ourselves – Dan Ariely
  15. The Second World War: A Complete History – Martin Gilbert
  16. Touch Design for Mobile Interfaces
  17. Edward Burtynsky. L’uomo e la terra. Luci e ombre.
  18. Product Management for UX People: From Designing to Thriving in a Product World
  19. Deliberate Intervention: Using Policy and Design to Blunt the Harms of New Technology
  20. Conversational Design
  21. Team Mastery: From Good to Great Agile Teamwork
  22. Le parole sono finestre (oppure muri). Introduzione alla comunicazione nonviolenta
  23. The Strategy Activation Playbook
  24. The New CSS Layout
  25. Let my people go surfing. La filosofia di un imprenditore ribelle
  26. L’arte della guerra
  27. Crescere i bambini con la Comunicazione Nonviolenta
  28. Authentic communication. The practice of honest and careful communication – Alexei Ivanov, Sveta Shedina
  29. The Ameriguns – Gabriele Galimberti
  30. Click! How to Encourage Clicks Without Shady Tricks
  31. Responsible JavaScript
  32. SEO For Everyone
  33. Better Onboarding
  34. Sustainable Web Design
  35. Progressive Web Apps
  36. Leonardo da Vinci – Walter Isaacson
  37. Costituzione Italiana
  38. Design Systems: A practical guide to creating design languages for digital products
  39. Product-Led Onboarding: How to Turn New Users Into Lifelong Customers (ProductLed Library Book 3)
  40. Epic Alignment
  41. Hiring Product Managers: Using Product EQ to go beyond culture and skills
  42. Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t – Simon Sinek
  43. HYPERGROWTH: How the Customer-Driven Model Is Revolutionizing the Way Businesses Build Products, Teams, & Brands
  44. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
  45. Hieronymus Bosch: L’opera completa
  46. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  47. Made in Dance, 1991-1999
  48. Startup, Scaleup, Screwup: 42 Tools to Accelerate Lean and Agile Business Growth
  49. Accessibility for Everyone
  50. The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
  51. Scandinavian Style at Home: A Room-by-Room Guide
  52. The Team That Managed Itself: A Story of Leadership
  53. L’unica regola è che non ci sono regole: Netflix e la cultura della reinvenzione
  54. “Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman”: Adventures of a Curious Character – Richard P. Feynman
  55. What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets
  56. The Workshopper Playbook
  57. Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value
  58. Fifty Quick Ideas To Improve Your Retrospectives
  59. 97 Things Every Scrum Practitioner Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts
  60. The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community
  61. The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power
  62. Dust & Grooves: Adventures in Record Collecting
  63. Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts With Worry)
  64. Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action – Simon Sinek
  65. 17 Anti-Procrastination Hacks: How to Stop Being Lazy, Overcome Procrastination, and Finally Get Stuff Done
  66. Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation – Tim Brown
  67. Innovation Lab Excellence: Digital Transformation from Within
  68. The FINTECH Book: The Financial Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Visionaries – Susanne Chishti, Janos Barberis
  69. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life – Mark Manson
  70. Management 3.0: Leading Agile Developers, Developing Agile Leaders – Jurgen Appelo
  71. Agile Estimating and Planning – Mike Cohn
  72. Dieci ragioni per cancellare subito i tuoi account social
  73. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
  74. The New York Times Explorer Cities & Towns
  75. Minimal Film: The Cinematic World Reimagined through Graphic Design
  76. Practical Design Discovery
  77. Living in Information: Responsible Design for Digital Places
  78. Everything is Negotiable: How to Get the Best Deal Every Time – Gavin Kennedy
  79. The Growth Handbook
  80. The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
  81. JavaScript For Web Designers
  82. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built
  83. Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living (The Bruce Lee Library) – Bruce Lee
  84. Practical SVG
  85. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us
  86. Product Mastery: From Good To Great Product Ownership
  87. A Practical Guide to Managing Web Projects
  88. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
  89. The Elements of Content Strategy
  90. Content Strategy for Mobile
  91. Data-Informed Product Design
  92. Front-End Style Guides
  93. Product Leadership: How Top Product Managers Launch Awesome Products and Build Successful Teams
  94. Le leggi della semplicità
  95. You Don’t Know JS: Up & Going
  96. User Experience Revolution (Smashing eBooks)
  97. The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Freelance Web Design Business
  98. The Ultimate Guide to Remote Work: How to Grow, Manage, and Work with Remote Teams (Zapier App Guides Book 3)
  99. Thinking in JavaScript
  100. Smashing Book #6: New Frontiers in Web Design
  101. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 2
  102. Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design – Part 1
  103. The Smashing Book #4 – New Perspectives on Web Design
  104. Redesign The Web (The Smashing Book 3)
  105. The Smashing Book #2
  106. The Smashing Book #1
  107. Performance Optimization: Techniques And Strategies (Smashing eBooks)
  108. The Mobile Web Handbook
  109. The Mobile Book
  110. I Want To Hire You But Your Resume Sucks
  111. Grow: How Ideals Power Growth and Profit at the World’s 50 Greatest Companies
  112. Getting Real
  113. Come funziona Google (Italian Edition)
  114. Getting Paid Well To Do What You Love
  115. Freelancing for beginners – What Freelancers Need to Know when starting a Freelancing Business
  116. The Entrepreneurial Adventure: Is It For You?
  117. Digital Adaptation
  118. Designing for Touch
  119. Designing for Emotion
  120. The Conversation Company: Boost Your Business Through Culture, People and Social Media
  121. Connect The Dots: Strategies and Meditations On Self-education
  122. Come imparare una cosa al giorno e non invecchiare mai
  123. A Career On The Web: On The Road To Success (Smashing eBooks)
  124. Le 22 immutabili leggi del marketing. Se le ignorate, è a vostro rischio e pericolo!
  125. Style: Writing from the UnderGround
  126. M.C. Escher: Grafica e Disegni
  127. Startup Opportunities: Know When To Quit Your Day Job
  128. Essential: Essays by The Minimalists
  129. Git for Humans (A Book Apart #17)
  130. Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
  131. Responsible Responsive Design
  132. Mobile First
  133. Do the Work
  134. Blind Spot
  135. Why We Fail: Learning From Experience Design Failures
  136. Hardboiled Web Design
  137. Nocturnal: Global Highflyers
  138. Wall and Piece
  139. USA on the Road (Insight Guides)
  140. You Only Live Once: A Lifetime of Experiences for the Explorer in All of Us
  141. Strengths Finder 2.0
  142. Poke the Box: When Was the Last Time You Did Something for the First Time?
  143. We Are All Weird: The Rise of Tribes and the End of Normal
  144. V Is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone
  145. All Marketers Are Liars: The Underground Classic That Explains How Marketing Really Works—and Why Authenticity Is the Best Marketing of All
  146. Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
  147. Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us
  148. The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
  149. Thinking With Type
  150. The $1 Prototype: A Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design and Rapid Innovation for
  151. Lean UX: Designing Great Products with Agile Teams
  152. Microinteractions: Designing with Details
  153. Time Is Money: The Business Value of Web Performance
  154. Badass: Making Users Awesome
  155. High Performance Mobile Web: Best Practices for Optimizing Mobile Web Apps
  156. Using WebPageTest: Web Performance Testing for Novices and Power Users
  157. Designing for Performance: Weighing Aesthetics and Speed
  158. Discussing Design: Improving Communication and Collaboration through Critique
  159. Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
  160. Your Network Is Your Net Worth: Unlock the Hidden Power of Connections for Wealth, Success, and Happiness in the Digital Age
  161. Web Performance Daybook Volume 2
  162. Jamie‘s Italy
  163. Scarcity: The New Science of Having Less and How It Defines Our Lives
  164. The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work
  165. Professional WordPress: Design and Development
  166. Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business
  167. Business Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your CareerBusiness Model You: A One-Page Method For Reinventing Your Career
  168. Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols
  169. Lean Websites: Because Web Performance Simply Matters
  170. The Shape of Design
  171. Responsive Web Design
  172. HTML5 for Web Designers
  173. The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
  174. Digging Into WordPress
  175. Essential Zen Habits: Mastering the Art of Change, Briefly
  176. Clients From Hell: A collection of anonymously-contributed client horror stories from designers
  177. The Leu Family’s Family Iron – Fabio Paleari
  178. Disruptive Marketing: What Growth Hackers, Data Punks, and Other Hybrid Thinkers Can Teach Us About Navigating the New Normal
  179. Extreme Teams: Why Pixar, Netflix, Airbnb, and Other Cutting-Edge Companies Succeed Where Most Fail
  180. Subway Art
  181. Career Renegade: How to Make a Great Living Doing What You Love
  182. Show Your Work!: 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered
  183. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
  184. The Economics Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  185. The Philosophy Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
  186. Practical Empathy: For Collaboration and Creativity in Your Work
  187. The Conversation Manager: The Power of the Modern Consumer, the End of the Traditional Advertiser
  188. The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
  189. On Bullshit
  190. How to Win Friends & Influence People
  191. Minimalism: Live a Meaningful Life
  192. Your Money: The Missing Manual
  193. This is Service Design Thinking: Basics, Tools, Cases
  194. Web Performance in Action: Building Faster Web Pages
  195. The Design of Everyday Things
  196. Delivering Happiness
  197. Learn Something Every Day
  198. The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World (Perigee Book.)
  199. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
  200. Mobile Usability
  201. The Sketchnote Handbook: the illustrated guide to visual note taking
  202. Implementing Responsive Design: Building Sites for an Anywhere, Everywhere Web (Voices That Matter)
  203. 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  204. Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  205. Ed Emberley’s Drawing Book: Make a World
  206. The $100 Startup: Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future
  207. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
  208. Getting Unstuck: Break Free of the Plateau Effect
  209. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
  210. Designing the Search Experience: The Information Architecture of Discovery
  211. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World
  212. Knowledge Is Beautiful: Impossible Ideas, Invisible Patterns, Hidden Connections—Visualized
  213. Information Is Beautiful

 

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