📍 Cambridge, UK | 🚀 Startup Founder | 🤖 Fractional CTO & AI Agent Builder | 🎓 Carnegie Mellon MSIT-SE
From launching operator-grade telecom networks to building AI agents — 20 years mastering the full technology stack. I help startups ship 2-3x faster with AI-assisted development and strategic tech leadership.
- 🤖 YAi Digital — Co-founder & CTO. Built 6 production AI agents for content assessment and optimization. Full-stack architecture with CI/CD automation enabling continuous delivery.
- 🧑💻 Fractional CTO — Helping AI-first SaaS startups accelerate product development. Teaching teams Cursor/Claude workflows, building infrastructure that scales, and shipping features without expanding headcount.
- 🏗️ Built 6 production AI agents — Content assessment, optimization, and quality assurance at YAi Digital
- 📈 Scaled ITS startup to $500k revenue — Founded Edge Vision, building EdgeAI software to retrofit conventional traffic signals into smart I2X-ready intersections. Real-time computer vision on the edge for traffic flow digitization, GHG reduction, and V2X-connected transport. Built from scratch with 3-person team and $120k investment
- 📡 Launched first LTE network in Russia — Led core network engineering at MegaFon, zero SLA breaches across millions of subscribers
- 🎓 Carnegie Mellon MSIT-SE — Master of Science in Information Technology - Software Engineering
- 🏆 "Industry Leader" award — Recognized by Innopolis University for bridging industry and academia
- 🌍 IRF Startup Challenge semi-finalist — International Road Federation conference presenter
| Domain | Technologies |
|---|---|
| AI & LLM | LangChain, LangGraph, Google ADK, Vertex AI, PyTorch, TensorFlow, Computer Vision |
| Backend | Python, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, SQLite |
| Frontend | React, Svelte, TypeScript, JavaScript |
| Infrastructure | GCP, Docker, CI/CD, Linux, Terraform |
| AI-Assisted Dev | Cursor, Claude, Agentic Engineering |
| Telecom (Legacy) | MSC, MGW, HLR, HSS, STP, LTE Core, Oracle |
- 🔧 Building AI agents — Designing scalable agent architectures with LangChain, LangGraph, and Google ADK
- 🚀 Accelerating startups — Fractional CTO engagements helping pre-seed and seed-stage founders ship faster
- 🎓 Teaching — Software engineering at Master's level, AI-assisted development workflows for engineering teams
- 🎓 Carnegie Mellon University — MSIT-SE (Master of Science in Information Technology - Software Engineering)
- 🏫 Innopolis University — Teaching Assistant & Senior Teacher (Software Engineering)
- 🏫 UCL School of Management — Teaching Assistant
"Ship beats perfect" — I combine 20 years of systems engineering discipline with startup speed. Clean architecture, pragmatic tradeoffs, and AI-assisted workflows to move fast without breaking things.
Random Facts
- 🌍 Worked across Russia, UAE, and UK
- 📡 Started career configuring telecom switches serving millions of subscribers
- 🧑🏫 Created hackathon programs for children aged 10-17
- ☕ Powered by British tea and Cambridge cycling
- 🤖 Run multiple AI agent instances concurrently — because one agent is never enough
- 🎯 Believe AI agents are the future of software development