Profile / Experience
Experience
Chief Product & Technology Officer in fintech, payments and digital assets. 17+ years from Java developer to CPTO: trading platforms, crypto wallets, Visa card programmes, a DEX aggregator and a national payment platform. Runs an AI-native product organisation where an idea becomes a working MVP in 2 to 3 weeks.
Cases
Chaos in engineering
National Payment & Digital-Asset Platform (regulated, under NDA)
CPTO · Feb 2026 to present
- Before
- Wallet, crypto cards and TON. 100+ people in-house and across vendors, in functional teams.
- What I did
- Launched a CEX with a trading terminal, OTC (partners connected over FIX), an own blockchain with EVM/TVM infrastructure and a stablecoin programme. In 3 months moved the teams to domain ownership: PO and tech-lead pairs, a Delivery Office. An AI pipeline takes an idea to a working MVP on the live platform in 2 to 3 weeks; MVPs of crypto deposits, lending, liquidity management and AML were built this way. The card programme passed Visa due diligence; a VARA licence is in preparation.
Result · Feb to Sep 2026
- products shipped to production
- 9
- registered users
- 39K → 80K
- KYC conversion
- 42% → 56%
- new depositing clients a month
- 836 → 1,899
Chaos in engineering
1inch
Senior Product Owner, institutional B2B API · Jun 2025 to Jan 2026
- Before
- A wallet and a DEX aggregator: 200K+ unique addresses and $100M+ volume a month, 2 teams, about 20 engineers.
- What I did
- Moved both teams onto AI rails (Cursor, Claude and Codex in development, refactoring, tests, monitoring and code review), then extended them to system and business analysts and POs. Rebuilt the practice of developing solutions around AI: architecture, engineering approach, tools. Owned the institutional B2B API end to end: vision, metrics, roadmap, launch; integrations under VARA/AML: Trust Wallet, Revolut, Web3 Antivirus; partners: Wirex, Ondo, xStocks. An MCP server over the API lets AI agents call quotes, swaps and calculations.
Result
- development speed
- +20–25%
- to ship a solution or fix a bug
- 2–3 weeks → 2–3 days
- incident response
- hours → 10–30 min
Launch from zero
Grineo
CPTO · Mar 2023 to May 2025
- Before
- No product, no team, no process.
- What I did
- Wallet, then Visa card, then Apple Pay and Google Pay; partners from issuers to liquidity; full P&L and unit economics; a non-custodial wallet and a DEX aggregator built from scratch.
Result
- launch on the App Store and Google Play
- Oct 2024
- conversion to an issued card, 3K+ cards
- ~80%
- monthly volume within 7 months of launch
- ~$1.5M
- people in the team
- 2 → 50+
A new opportunity
KODIBOX
Founder & CEO · Apr 2019 to Aug 2022 · alongside Quadcode
- Before
- A B2B SaaS, Environment-as-a-Service for engineering teams, started with my own money.
- What I did
- Product, pricing, go-to-market, sales playbook; raised investment for expansion.
Result
- paying enterprise customers
- 4
- MRR
- ~$40K
- Result
- Break-even and exit
Chaos in engineering
Quadcode
Chief IT Operations Officer, then CIO · Jun 2017 to Mar 2023
- Before
- A high-load B2B and B2C trading platform: 200K+ DAU, 1,000+ servers, a PCI DSS environment.
- What I did
- Operational deputy to the founders and the CTO; an organisation of 65 people in 8 international teams; the custodial wallet hodly.com.
Result
- critical incidents
- −95%
- potential losses avoided
- $100M+
- lower infrastructure cost
- ~50%
Earlier
2007 to 2017
Java developer → DevOps → team lead → head of department
Fintech, banking, big data, SaaS, telecom.
Education
2003 to 2009
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Computer and Information Systems Security, Information Assurance
2020
CORe, Credential of Readiness
Harvard Business School Online
Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, Financial Accounting · Pass with Honors
2022
Data Science for Business
2022
Data Privacy and Technology