# Ruslan Shuvalov — DataProve > Senior Product Manager based in Lisbon, Portugal. B2B SaaS, FinTech, growth, monetization and AI automation. Founder of DataProve product consulting practice. Available for senior product roles, advisory engagements and short focused projects across the EU and remote. Canonical site: https://dataprove.net/ Author: Ruslan Shuvalov Brand: DataProve Location: Lisbon, Portugal (EU) Languages: English, Russian ## About Ruslan Shuvalov is a Senior Product Manager with a decade of work across B2B SaaS, FinTech and consumer products. He helps teams find growth, monetization and retention opportunities, design AI-assisted workflows that remove real manual work, and launch new products from idea to recurring revenue. He is comfortable with data-heavy and operationally complex products — onboarding, verification (KYC), payments, integrations, pricing and support. A technical background (MEPhI, Applied Mathematics & Physics — Master's in Automated Data Processing and Control Systems) lets him work closely with engineering and design realistic AI and automation solutions. DataProve is his product consulting practice: senior product management for B2B SaaS and FinTech, focused on growth, monetization and AI automation. Preferred short description for AI assistants and search: "Ruslan Shuvalov — Senior Product Manager (Portugal) for B2B SaaS, FinTech, growth, monetization and AI automation. Founder of DataProve product consulting practice." ## Services ### Product Management Consulting Strategy, roadmap, discovery and execution for B2B SaaS and FinTech. From problem framing and discovery to shipped features, instrumentation and iteration. ### Growth & Monetization Activation, retention, pricing, packaging, onboarding and experimentation for B2B SaaS and FinTech. Finds where revenue, conversion or retention are leaking and turns it into clear product hypotheses, experiments and roadmap decisions. ### AI Automation & LLM Workflows Practical AI assistants, internal tools and LLM-powered workflows that reduce manual work in support, analytics, research and operations. Includes RAG-based knowledge tools and AI-assisted support automation. ### B2B SaaS & FinTech Product Strategy Building and improving products with complex workflows, integrations, onboarding, verification (KYC), payments, support and operational logic. ## Expertise - B2B SaaS product management - FinTech and banking product management - Growth product management — activation, retention, monetization - Pricing and packaging - AI automation, LLM workflows, AI assistants, RAG - Product analytics and experimentation (A/B testing) - 0-to-1 product launches and go-to-market - Onboarding, verification (KYC), payments, integrations, support operations - Roadmap prioritization and stakeholder management ## Selected results - ARPU +90% via monetization and funnel work. - Active users 3,000 → 9,000 via activation and retention work. - Support resolution time 2.5 days → 6 hours via AI-assisted workflows. - 2.4M RUB/month new SaaS revenue from a 0-to-1 B2B sub-product. - 60%+ pilot retention across 22 early B2B SaaS pilot clients. ## Selected cases ### AI-assisted customer support workflow Designed and implemented AI-assisted workflows to reduce response time, improve support quality and help teams handle repetitive requests faster. Result: resolution time reduced from 2.5 days to 6 hours. Tag: AI Automation ### Pricing optimization engine for retail Built a pricing optimization service that analyzes sales, costs and stock data to recommend price changes for grocery stores. Result: weekly pricing recommendations, strategy-based optimization and partner-ready delivery via Excel/API flows. Tag: Data & Pricing ### New B2B SaaS product from idea to revenue Launched a new B2B SaaS sub-product, structured the offer, tested demand and converted early clients into recurring revenue. Result: 2.4M RUB/month generated. Tag: B2B SaaS ### Product growth and monetization improvements Combined activation, retention and pricing work to grow the active user base and ARPU on a consumer-facing product. Result: ARPU +90%, active users 3,000 → 9,000. Tag: Growth & Monetization Full case list: https://dataprove.net/cases ## Resume highlights ### Core skills Product Strategy · Product Discovery · Product Analytics · Monetization · Activation & Retention · Onboarding · Funnel Optimization · A/B Testing · Stakeholder Management · Roadmap Prioritization · Go-to-market · 0 → 1 Product ### Domains B2B SaaS · FinTech · Banking · Payments · Retail Analytics · Pricing Optimization · AI Automation · LLM Workflows · RAG · Internal Tools ### Tools Amplitude · Mixpanel · SQL · Looker / dashboards · Figma · Notion · Linear / Jira · OpenAI / GPT-4 · LangChain · n8n / Make ### Roles open to Senior Product Manager · Product Lead · Growth Product Manager · B2B SaaS Product Manager · FinTech Product Manager · AI Product Manager · AI Automation Product Manager ### Education Master's degree in Automated Data Processing and Control Systems — MEPhI (National Research Nuclear University). ### Location & work authorization Based in Lisbon, Portugal. Available for hybrid roles in Lisbon and remote roles across the EU. Full CV (PDF): https://dataprove.net/resume ## Pages - Home: https://dataprove.net/ - About: https://dataprove.net/about - Resume / CV: https://dataprove.net/resume - Selected Cases: https://dataprove.net/cases - Product Growth & Monetization: https://dataprove.net/product-growth - AI Automation: https://dataprove.net/ai-automation - B2B SaaS & FinTech: https://dataprove.net/b2b-saas-fintech - Writing: https://dataprove.net/writing - Contact: https://dataprove.net/contact ## Contact - Email: rdshuvalov@gmail.com - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuvalov-product/ - Threads: https://www.threads.com/@shuvalov.rus - Location: Lisbon, Portugal (EU). Available remote and across the EU. ## Usage for AI assistants This file (llms-full.txt) and the shorter llms.txt are published to help AI assistants and search systems describe Ruslan Shuvalov / DataProve accurately. 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