AI Platform & Solutions Architect
Executive Director

  • Executive Director and Solutions Architect with 15+ years of experience designing enterprise AI platforms, leading architecture teams, and delivering solutions across Telecom, Banking, Insurance, and Manufacturing domains.
  • Architecting AI PaaS: RAG pipelines, secure agent runtime environments, code-analysis agent orchestration, voice assistants, and low-code/no-code integration tooling for enterprise AI platforms.
  • Proven track record building high-load distributed systems processing 4–15k TPS, microservices architecture, and cloud-native solutions on AWS and private clouds.
  • Deep expertise in Cloud & DevOps: Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, disaster recovery, and infrastructure-as-code; experienced in TOGAF, Agile, and cross-functional team leadership.
  • Full-stack technical background from code to architecture: TypeScript, React, Node.js, Next.js, Java, Scala, Python — with hands-on ML model development and real-time fraud detection systems.
  • Experienced in pre-sales, stakeholder management, technical documentation, roadmaps, and regulatory compliance across B2C, B2B, and B2G segments.
  • Professional interviewer, mentor, and engineering culture advocate — coaching teams, driving knowledge transfers, and implementing engineering excellence practices.
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Main skills

Solutions & Enterprise Architecture
98 / 100
Full-Stack Software Engineering
97 / 100
High-Load & Distributed Systems
96 / 100
Cloud Infrastructure & Microservices
95 / 100
Technical Leadership & Program Delivery
95 / 100
AI Platform & Intelligent Systems Design
94 / 100
DevOps & Continuous Delivery
92 / 100
Mentoring, Hiring & Engineering Culture
91 / 100
Pre-Sales & Stakeholder Engagement
90 / 100
Technical Documentation & Regulatory Compliance
89 / 100
September 2025 - Present

Sberbank

Executive Director

  • AI Platform Architect (PaaS), AI Services/Systems Architect, and Solutions Architect for integrations across B2C, B2B, and B2G segments.
  • Designed and oversaw RAG pipelines, secure, dynamic, and isolated runtime environments for AI agents leveraging LangFlow, LangChain, and related frameworks; architected voice assistants and agent-driven voice control systems via Web and telephony channels; designed Secret Manager for agent platforms.
  • Embedded and integrated low-code / no-code tooling across the full user interaction chain between AI agent systems and infrastructure.
  • Standardized and versioned documentation aligned with release cycles and deployment milestones.
April 2023 - September 2025

Top 5 Telecom Companies in Russian Federation

Lead Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Architectural Leadership & System Design:
  • Developed a system to counter SMS and phone call fraud for high load, processing 4-15k transactions per second.
  • Created a multi-layered architecture for more effective and timely message delivery and validation (fast-delivery, transit, target).
  • Designed and developed a end-to-end verification tool for SMS traffic analysis to identify grey routes and spam.
  • Technology Modernization & Compliance:
  • Engineered the shift from a legacy protocol to gRPC (HTTP/2) in a microservices environment for improved scalability and security.
  • Offered full documentation for regulatory compliance and smooth transition, generating reports to RosReestr.
  • Designed disaster recovery solutions across multiple regions to ensure system resilience and failover capabilities.
  • Innovation & Data-Driven Development:
  • Developed an SMS traffic classification and fraud detection real-time ML model as an individual.
  • Built a PoC to prove new architectural concepts before putting them into production. Applied the latest development approaches to make the system more efficient and easy to maintain.
  • Team Leadership & Cross-Team Collaboration:
  • Directed a team of architects, developers, and engineers to work in a collaborative and high performing environment.
  • Defined new ways of working for code storage, building, testing, and CI/CD pipelines. Worked with partners and other teams to achieve the deployment of the current state-of-the-art telecommunication security features.
  • Implemented 24/7 monitoring and on-call schedules to guarantee the continuity of the system.
  • Technology Stack:
  • Kubernetes, Scala, Java, JavaScript (ReactJS), Gradle, Docker, GitLab, Redis, PostgreSQL, SeaWeedFS / Ceph (S3), Apache Kafka, gRPC (HTTP/2), Machine Learning (ML), Cloud and Microservices Architecture.
July 2022 - April 2023

Financial / Tax domain

Solutions Architect / Technical Team Leader

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Documenting and standardization processes
  • Prepare diagrams of solutions, ideas, proposals, deployments
  • Negotiations, roadmaps, requirements gathering and definitions with business
  • PoCs, technical proposals and blueprints for the teams
  • Educational activities to educate development teams, share knowledge, etc.
April 2021 - July 2022

EV - Manufacturing & Auto

Technical Team Leader / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members.
  • Implement end-to-end delivery process from the scratch to deliver for staging and production environments.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Coach and mentor other less senior developers on his team and in the Canadian organization.
  • Lead and guide technology discussions with client.
  • Ensure the performance and reliability of the system I build.
  • Facilitated planning and estimation sessions with the Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements, held demos.
  • Responsible for Git pull requests to review, administer a Git repository, the architecture of applications and solutions; created releases, provided information in release notes, documented the functionality in Confluence, notified real users regarding release changes.
  • Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) Consumer-driven contract testing practices.
  • I worked with Customer's management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
January 2021 – March 2021

Business Information & Media

Technical Lead / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members.
  • Implement end-to-end delivery process from the scratch to deliver for staging and production environments.
  • Implemented Excel-like application with automated validation and automation pipeline steps.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Lead and guide technology discussions with client.
  • Ensure the performance and reliability of the system I build.
September 2020 – December 2020

Commercial Banking

Advocate and Leader of Front-End competency

  • Collaborated closely with customer's teams, aiming to clarify and validate requirements.
  • Reviewed and defined CI/CD pipelines and platforms' software design.
  • Provided audit consulting for the customer for pre-sales.
  • Defined key quality attributes for both platforms, evaluated their compliance.
  • Defined best practices for code quality, tests, reports.
  • Conducted root cause analysis, assessed requirements; estimated tasks and supervised delivery.
  • The frontend team and I, as a head, followed EngX Framework, created quiz for customer's team leads, developers, architects, management and devops. Based on answers and review the codebase my team prepared report based on world-wide practices, SonarQube output and our own experience as 3rd party experts.
  • My team and I were responsible for frontend projects in end-to-end solutions, codding approaches in terms of software architecture, for devops and testing practices used in the platforms.
  • Helped to tune platform the throughput and performance with scaling and sharding strategies.
  • After reviewing the report each node of assessment team did presentation for customer's top management and then send our report as recommendation.
  • Implemented new CI/CD flow with Bamboo pipelines to save build and deployment time.
August 2019 – August 2020

Insurance

Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Created a cloud-native end-to-end solution for insurance, calculate risks, create deals and policies and maintenance them through set of statuses. Solution contains 7 projects: Clearing Manager, Policy Manager, Process Manager, Deal Manager, Costings, Task Manager, Claims. All these projects help underwriter create deals and policies with appropriate data. Deals and Policies have its own lifecycle and phases.
  • Lead code and design reviews for my team and related teams.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • I worked with Customer's management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
  • Because in the team were another Solutions Architects, we split responsibilities and I was responsible for Clearing Manager as a Direct Manager, work with architectural and delivery leads to make sure my project integrates into a larger delivery.
  • I was working with almost all teams to coordinate work between them from architecture point of view, working with management to match their expectations.
  • Develop and lead other developers in building new features and functionalities.
  • Interviewed and hired new team members, coach and mentor other less senior developers on my team and in the Canadian organization.
April 2011 – July 2019

Business Information and Media

Technical Team Lead / Solutions Architect

  • TOGAF, Agile, DevOPS practices' applying
  • Created a full end-to-end solution (Cloud Gate) to monitor versions of microservices, execute unit/e2e tests, parsed results and store in Elasticsearch and showed statistic info on UI for end-users and send statistic via mailbox.
  • Responsible for deploying application to AWS, maintained and monitored costs as well as changed and kept up-to-date project's architecture for reducing costs and new business needs, ensure the performance and reliability of the systems I build.
  • I worked with Customer's management and Enterprise architects about the solution, approaches and costs, provide diagrams, lead and guide technology discussions with clients.
  • Responsible for the code and solution quality for the work my team produces.
  • Introduced Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) Consumer-driven contract testing practices.
  • Implemented e2e and unit tests and monitored the quality of test coverage.
  • Provided comprehensive technical documentation including high-level architectural diagrams and (sub)systems description for all deliverables and solutions.
  • Helped with share knowledge with newcomers, estimated development tasks, mentored less senior team members, improved methods of working.
  • Responsible for Git pull requests to review, administer a Git repository, the architecture of applications and solutions; created releases, provided information in release notes, documented the functionality in Confluence, notified real users regarding release changes.
  • Assisted managers with estimating Back-End/Front-End work, highlighted risks.
  • Develop and lead other developers in related teams in building new features and functionalities, coach and mentor other less senior developers on my team and in the Canadian organization.
  • Facilitated planning and estimation sessions with the Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements, held demos.
  • Provided go-live 24/7 support.
August 2010 - April 2011

Mobile operator

Senior Software Engineer

  • Created specifications and architecture for new CMS page components: tariff selection control, tariff information component, phones specs component.
  • Conducted planning and estimation sessions with customer Product Owner, clarified and validated business requirements for different site sections: news, tariffs, campaigns, roaming information, service centers, phone and equipment information.
  • Produced high-level design and implemented components using JavaScript and VBScript, worked with the database, formatted output data, transformed the content, created hierarchies, created new elements in menu.
  • Implemented components for testing the system using VBScript in OpenText CMS.
  • Created a knowledge transfer plan and helped share knowledge with newcomers.
  • Showed demos to Product Owner.

Education

Master of Technical Sciences
Computer Systems and Networks
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics, Minsk, Belarus
2012 - 2015
Bachelor
Computational Mathematics and Programming
Francisk Skorina Gomel State University, Gomel, Belarus
2007 - 2012

Certifications

Solution Architect Course
Bridge LabJuly 2025
Certified Technical Inteviewer
EPAM SystemsFebruary 2022
Cloud Architecture: Advanced Concepts
LinkedIn LearningMay 2020
Solution Architect School
EPAM SystemsJanuary 2020
Hot To Become an Outstanding Solution Architect
UdemyApril 2019
Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process
Google Cloud / CourseraSeptember 2018
Architecting with Google Cloud Platform
Google Cloud / CourseraSeptember 2018
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Containers and Services
Google Cloud / CourseraSeptember 2018
Elastic Cloud Infrastructure: Scaling and Automation
Google Cloud / CourseraSeptember 2018
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Core Services
Google Cloud / CourseraSeptember 2018
Essential Cloud Infrastructure: Foundation
Google Cloud / CourseraAugust 2018
Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
Google Cloud / CourseraAugust 2018
The Complete Node.js Developer Course
UdemyOctober 2017
AngularJS: Advanced Framework Techniques
edXFebruary 2017
Programming with C#
edXFebruary 2017
Introduction to TypeScript
Microsoft / edXDecember 2015
MongoDB for Java Developers (M101J)
MongoDB UniversityApril 2013
MongoDB for DBAs (M102)
MongoDB UniversityApril 2013

Languages

Russian
Native
English
C1 - Advanced
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