This document describes NTR Lab, a software development company with offices in Russia, Ukraine, and elsewhere. It provides an overview of NTR Lab's services, portfolio, processes, and leadership. Specifically, NTR Lab helps companies scale software development by assembling developer teams across Eastern Europe. It has experience in areas like AI, mobile apps, and high-load systems. NTR Lab also details its approach to staffing, retention, security practices, and past work for clients in industries like insurance, commerce, and oil engineering.

1. TURNING IDEAS
INTO SOFTWARE
SCALING SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
FOR TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES

2. YOUR
COMPANY
NAME
HERE
SELECT CUSTOMERS 2
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per client
request>

3. 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

4. WE HELP SCALE YOUR
SOFTWARE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
QUICKLY AND ECONOMICALLY

5. 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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6. 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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7. TURNING IDEAS
INTO SOFTWARE
WEB DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO
EXCERPTS

8. 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)

9. 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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10. 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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11. MOBILE DEVELOPMENT PORTFOLIO
EXCERPTS

12. 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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13. 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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14. HIGH-TECH PROJECT PORTFOLIO

15. 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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16. 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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17. 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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18. Oil Engineering: A Specialized CAD
System For Oil Wells
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19. INTERNAL PROCESSES

20. 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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21. 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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22. 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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23. WHAT’S NEXT? 23
Contact CEO Nick Mikhailovsky at
 nickm@ntrlab.com
 Skype nickm197
 LinkedIn
http://ru.linkedin.com/in/nickmikhailovsky/