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Fractional CTO & Head of AI | Tech Strategy & Execution | Mindset & Resilience Mentor
I’ve battled depression, alexithymia, burnout, and rebuilt my emotional intelligence from zero. So, no fluff. Hints and some no-BS mindset hacks to crush mental blocks, conquer imposter syndrome, and lead do, finally empathy.
Can advise founders and architect AI agent solutions: 1.5 years building startups post-corporate and 2+ years hands-on developing AI agents—skilled in orchestrating multi-agent workflows, integrating LLMs, and delivering scalable, production-grade AI systems end-to-end.
I draw on my transformation from depression and alexithymia to emotional resilience. Just practical things for mindset shifts. Having navigated burnout and self-doubt, I empower others to break mental barriers and sustain balanced, confident leadership.
I help teams integrate AI/ML, cloud, DevOps, full-stack, and data systems into cohesive, scalable solutions — turning complex requirements into clear roadmaps and adapting swiftly to new challenges. The main reason as I am a generalist/technologist, fluent across AI/ML, cloud, DevOps, backend & frontend, and data systems, because ofmy diverse experience in different domains and roles.
My first primary language. Wrote a lot of lines of code. Since Java 6. Overall, knows the majority of all Java/Scala ecosystem events nowadays. Yes, including Scala / Akka / functional programming.
Zoom used daily for fractional CTO mentoring, AI strategy, team stand-ups, breakout rooms, screen sharing & remote pairing. In a nutshell — 8+ years remote.
Doing a lot of staff and building several startup projects (and a couple of internal projects). Plus I guess my current startup is the most complex on it as we a working on coding agents for enterprise. Working with this since ChatGPT release
Just using this language for solving different scripts at the beginning and for recent years developing AI agents. Langchain, AutoMl, pytorch and other parts of ecosystem.
- Built an AI stylist SaaS that generates outfits in real time; shipped proprietary ``Complete the Look'' engine. - Achieved 44.4 % higher median quality vs. Farfetch baseline in blind tests. - Architected LLM agent orchestration using LangChain LangGraph for dynamic fashion workflow coordination.
- Owned B2B trading infra managing multi-million EUR portfolios across 4 asset classes. - Delivered real-time market-data platform (Postgres, Strata, Iceberg) used by Treasury \& Risk as single source of truth. - Introduced quantitative risk toolkit; cut portfolio-recalc time -70% and enabled intraday VaR.
- Scaled recommendation API to 300k RPM with \textless{}100 ms p95 via \textbf{Vespa} vector search. - Co-designed hybrid BERT + TF-IDF {RAG}-like retrieval model, boosting Wix premium subscriptions KPI +7\%. - Integrated CI/CD pipelines by {Bazel} internal extensions into ML-driven microservices, enabling seamless rollout of search infra changes.
(subcontract to Google Cloud) - Migrated all analytics infra (Airflow, Spark, Druid) from AWS to GCP for Europe's largest GCP customer. - Closed PoC for a multi-million contract with an enterprise client, delivering key analytics solutions. - Served as GCP Big Data expert in pre-sales and client engagement teams.
- Led team delivering distributed Akka micro-services for Tier-1 European telecom BSS project. - Mentored 6 engineers, established code conventions and onboarding playbooks.
- Designed and implemented a new statistics subsystem for a corporate video streaming platform. - Reduced internal traffic load by 2.5--3 Mbps, enabling large-scale analytics aggregation. - Migrated legacy CI/CD from SVN to Git with GitFlow-based release management.
- Built and launched PoS system for Canadian Tire, scaling across 400 offline stores. - Delivered successful Moneris Gateway integration, enabling certified payment workflows. - Mentored interns and led two internal lecture streams for junior engineers. Lecturer in a university.
- Joined as intern and transitioned to full-time developer in the Data Platform team at Bazaarvoice. - Completed internal team leadership academy, receiving a job offer prior to graduation.