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TURNING IDEAS
INTO SOFTWARE
SCALING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

YOUR
COMPANY
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NTR LAB FACT SHEET 3
Tomsk office — We occupy the 6th
floor
 Founded 2000
 Development offices
in
Tomsk, Russia
Moscow, Russia;
Kharkiv, Ukraine;
 Headcount over 90

WE HELP SCALE YOUR
SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
QUICKLY AND ECONOMICALLY

WHAT WE DO
 We work with company management to
build a distributed software development
team and create the process to make it work:
 Assemble a team of the developers currently on salary at
NTR Lab offices;
 If that’s not enough - screen & hire (w/approval) from
across Eastern Europe; developers move to one of our
offices (no visas required)
 Transfer distributed software process management know-
how (and provide ongoing support)
 Eliminate the administrative hassle involved in hiring
overseas developers (paying salaries, etc.)
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CORE EXPERTISE AREAS
 AI- and Big Data-based projects and products
 High-load/web-scale projects
 Complex multiplatform mobile systems and apps
 Image recognition, management and classification
systems
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TURNING IDEAS
INTO SOFTWARE
WEB DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO
EXCERPTS

INSURANCE
 Renaissanse Life
(#3 life insurance company in
Russia)
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Ecommerce site for «No
Smoking» product
Corporate website
Dealer management
system
Intranet portal
 AllianzRosno
(Russian subsidiary of Allianz)
 СК Zurich
(Russian subsidiary of Zurich)
 Renaissanse
Insurance
(top 10 insurance company in
Russia)

Dealer/distributor/partner management
systems (aka extranets)
 Intel Learning Series partner program
 Sibur-Russian Tires partner program (later –
Cordiant partner program after the merger)
 FoodByNet.ru food distribution management
system
 Remote sales office management system for СК
Zurich
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High-load and advertising-scale systems
 Auto.exist.ru – auto marketplace for Russia’s top5 e-retailer
 Autocatch.ca – Canadian auto marketplace migrated to
ASP.NET after acquisition by Metroland Media
 Crossss.ru – personalization system for ecommerce. High-
load and BigData system. Over 500 ecommerce customers in
Russia and Ukraine, over 1M unique visitors per day tracked.
 POIdo.ru – geo-advertising system, up to 4M unique visitors
per day tracked
 AdvancedParking.ru – domain parking system – up to 1M
unique visitors per day
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MOBILE DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO
EXCERPTS

Navigation-related systems
 SOCHI BUS – Public transportation app for 2014 Olympics
 SOCHI-2014 Olympics organizing committee transportation
management app
 ROADSIDE assistance management system for PAT - Russia’s
largest roadside assistance service
 GREEN MARATHON - Runkeeper clone as a companion to a
series of running events created/sponsored by the Russia’s
largest bank
 PEDESTRAIN’S NAVIGATOR - Multiplatform app (iOS,
Android, Symbian, j2ME) that allows planning public
transportation/pedestrian routes using factual public
transportation movement data for GLONASS
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Barcode recognition systems
 TAGOLOGY.NET: Developed
an editing and recognition
platform for Tagology: the
website to create Tagology
tags and an iPhone app to
decode/read them
 QR AND DATAMATRIX
RECOGNITION ENGINES -
Developed world’s first QR
and Datamatrix recognition
engine for a mobile platform
(Symbian)
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Home Entertainment: Embedded Video
Software Development
 Client: Xperinet, Inc., Maryland, USA
 Core: development, evolution and
maintenance of home entertainment
system (video middleware)
 Development tools: embedded Linux,
C/C++, online video
processing/broadcasting
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Banking: Credit Risk Estimation System
Using Artificial Intelligence
 Client: Russian Standard Bank
 Core: prohibitively high credit verification costs
prevented development of consumer credit business in
Russia; a cost effective method to estimate credit risk, in
the absence of credit history, was required to develop
this market.
 NTR’s solution: custom algorithms, a neural network,
and an extended questionnaire to estimate credit
worthiness/risk quickly and cheaply.
 Key result: The bank has become one of Russia's market
leaders in consumer credit.
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Internet: Business Catalog Built Using
Artificial Intelligence
 QuickHydra is Advanced Internet White Pages
system.
 Its core is a Named Entity Recognition (NER)
engine using Artificial Intelligence.
 QuickHydra NER Engine
 Uses Decision Trees to recognize entities
 Specifically targeted for address recognition
 Requires annotated text base for teaching Decision
Trees to recognize specific entities
 To date is trained to recognize US, UK and Canadian
addresses
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Oil Engineering: A Specialized CAD
System For Oil Wells
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Approach To Staffing
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 Two absolute minimum
requirements
 Top technical skills
 Excellent fit with NTR culture
 We accomplish this
through an established
and continuous three-
phase hiring process—
meaning we constantly
search for, and hire, talent
when we find it, as
opposed to filling an
opening.
Phases
 Screen resumes (10 to
30 for each position).
 Initial, pre-interview
testing (only 10% pass).
 In-depth interviews with
NTR managers and staff
members.
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Retention Strategy
 NTR Lab retains its staff by offering stability,
challenging work, good pay, strong culture, and
excellent working environment.
 Corporate culture based on four principles:
> Work is fun
> Professional development
> Equality and fairness
> Camaraderie
 Average employee tenure - over 5 years
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Security
 BS 7799 control areas:
 Allocation of information security responsibilities
within the organization
 Security incident reporting and response
 Virus prevention and detection controls
 Business continuity planning
 Further BS 7799 implementation in progress
 Exits and building monitored by security guards
24/7.
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WHAT’S NEXT? 23
Contact CEO Nick Mikhailovsky at
 nickm@ntrlab.com
 Skype nickm197
 LinkedIn
http://ru.linkedin.com/in/nickmikhailovsky/

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