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Career & Qualifications

15 years: DevOps → TL → Architect → CTO → AI Architect. Full career path with technologies and results.

Competencies

Skills Matrix

AI & Architecture

  • Multi-Agent Systems
  • LLM Orchestration
  • RAG / Knowledge Graphs
  • Consensus & Deliberation
  • System Design
  • Enterprise Architecture

Engineering

  • Python / FastAPI
  • TypeScript / Next.js
  • PostgreSQL / Redis
  • Kubernetes / Docker
  • CI/CD / DevOps
  • Cloud (AWS, GCP)

Leadership

  • CTO / VP Engineering
  • Team up to 22 direct reports
  • P&L / Budget ownership
  • Strategic planning
  • Change management
  • Architecture governance
Career

15 years of engineering leadership

From DevOps engineer to CTO. Each role added a layer to the system I build today.

Oct 2024 — Jan 2026

CTO | Director of Production (direct report to CEO)

PARMA Technologies Group

Russian IT services and consulting firm specialising in ERP implementation and digital transformation. ~650 specialists serving enterprise clients across energy, manufacturing, and public sector.

Key Results

  • Cut overdue and loss-making projects from 55% to 15% within 6 months
  • AI strategy across 5 departments: presale (architecture + requirements via agents), delivery (codegen, spec writing, 90% tech-writing automated, task estimation calculator), legal (tender docs, contract risk analysis), HR (resume screening, candidate agents, interview scheduling), sales (Gamma presentations, objection training agent, licensing system)
  • Identified 900+ person-months/year of idle capacity; designed labour efficiency system
  • Created 'Delivery 1.0' — 22-section delivery methodology with project health index
Nov 2020 — Oct 2024

Chief Technology & Architecture Officer (direct report to CEO)

First Freight Company (PGK)

Russia's largest private freight rail operator, managing 140,000+ wagons with annual revenue ~$1.5B. Part of the NLMK Group, serving heavy industry, metallurgy, and commodity sectors.

Key Results

  • Digital platform delivered ~$5.5M total economic effect: ML-driven pricing, HR automation, SRM
  • Corporate DevOps/FinOps platform saves ~$1.4M/yr in operational costs
  • Real-time wagon map (200k+ wagons) replaced a legacy vendor, cutting latency and licensing costs
  • Architecture Committee scaled initiative governance to 150+ decisions per year
Jan 2024 — Sep 2024 (parallel venture)

Founder | CEO

AppComInn

Self-funded AI and Telegram services startup. Team of 9 shipped multiple consumer and developer-facing products under a shared platform architecture.

Key Results

  • Shipped 3 MVPs: object recognition service, AI Telegram bot, educational word game
  • Reached first paying users within 60 days of the initial launch
Aug 2018 — Oct 2020

Head of R&D / Chief Architect / VP Engineering

Raiffeisenbank Russia

Top-5 digital bank in Russia by customer experience ratings, serving 4M+ retail clients. Subsidiary of Raiffeisen Bank International AG (Austria).

Key Results

  • Cut time-to-market 3× through CI/CD standardisation and platform engineering
  • Delivered 80+ prototypes across blockchain, AI, and fintech product areas
  • Blockchain pilots on three platforms established a reusable DLT capability for the bank
Apr 2017 — Aug 2018

Chief Technical Expert

Moscow Exchange (MOEX)

Russia's largest exchange group, operating equity, bond, derivatives, currency, money market, and commodity markets. One of the 25 largest exchanges in the world by trading volume.

Key Results

  • Reduced incident response time by 40%+ through monitoring automation and alert routing
  • DevOps standards rolled out across other MOEX divisions, creating an org-wide engineering baseline
Mar 2011 — May 2017

Automation / DevOps Engineer → Software Architect

VGTRK · ITRC MIR · Amedia · RenTV · Neoflex

Six years of progressive engineering roles across national broadcast (VGTRK), media production, and banking IT integration. Full engineering stack: reliability, DevOps, automation, SOA architecture.

Key Results

  • 6+ years of foundational engineering across 5 organisations — hands-on base for all subsequent work
  • Cut release cycle from days to hours through CI/CD automation at Neoflex
  • Maintained 24/7 uptime for national broadcast infrastructure serving live federal television
Stack

40+ technologies

Tools are chosen for the task, not the other way around. AI-first, infrastructure-proven.

Expert15 technologies
Python
PostgreSQL
Kubernetes
Docker
GitLab CI
Kafka
Airflow
MLflow
Oracle DWH
Prometheus
Grafana
ELK Stack
Terraform
Ansible
Zabbix
Advanced16 technologies
OpenAI / LLM API
Anthropic Claude
Multi-model AI
Pydantic
FastAPI
pytest
Helm
Redis
SonarQube
GitHub Actions
React
Node.js
aiogram
Neo4j
HashiCorp Vault
ArgoCD
Proficient11 technologies
LangChain
AWS
Google Cloud
Azure
Angular
Go
Apache Spark
MongoDB
Nginx
SAP / 1C ERP
Ethereum / Corda
Education

Education & Certifications

2 degrees + 14 certifications in management, leadership, and engineering.

🎓2023

HSE University Moscow

Executive Programme in IT Management

IT Strategy Development

🎓2014

Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI)

Engineer — Applied Mechanics

14 Certifications

Emotional Intelligence
Wikium · 2023
Profiling (personality patterns)
Wikium · 2023
Competency-Based Interview
Talent Q Pro · 2021
Project Management
PM Expert · 2021
ITIL Specialist
ITIL · 2021
Inspiring Leader
ELC · 2021
Strong Leader
ELC · 2021
Situational Leadership
PGK · 2021
Management Decision Methods
NLMK · 2021
Talent Universe
Raiffeisenbank · 2020
Reading People
Raiffeisenbank · 2020
Product Management Simulator
GoPractice · 2019
DISC Assessment
Raiffeisenbank · 2019
EI & Leadership Behaviour
Raiffeisenbank · 2019

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Serbia-based · CET/CEST timezone · EU-aligned working hours · International contracts experience