Hands-on technology executive and software architect with 20+ years of experience building and modernizing complex products across enterprise AI, search and data platforms, fintech, capital markets and regulated B2B environments.
I combine executive ownership with a player-coach leadership style: setting technical direction, solving difficult architecture and production problems, mentoring senior engineers, and staying close to APIs, data flows, cloud infrastructure, observability and code-level decisions.
Led architecture and delivery for Model Zoo, Data Portal and AI Foundry data-layer capabilities across product, AI, data and platform teams.
Owned technology strategy, architecture, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity and operational reliability for a mission-critical international exchange.
Co-founded and scaled a technology-driven consumer-finance platform, leading architecture, engineering, operations, data and AI scoring capabilities.
Led large-scale modernization, digital transformation, software delivery, infrastructure, security and enterprise-platform programmes across multiple countries.
Enterprise AI platform supporting model governance, benchmarking, evaluation, lifecycle management and cloud-native AI operations.
Open project story →Enterprise AI governance and FinOps control plane for governed model access, implemented across AWS and Azure environments with centralized identity, policy, budget, routing, usage and audit controls.
Open project story →Centralized product for discovering, evaluating, comparing and governing AI/LLM models with metadata, benchmark and compute-performance information.
Open project story →Cloud-native multilingual web and mobile PropTech platform for rental discovery, roommate matching, referrals, booking journeys and administration.
Open project story →Mobile investing platform for first-time and non-professional investors with reusable SaaS integrations for brokers, custodians and banks.
Open project story →Secure AWS-based connectivity and integration with the global SWIFT financial messaging network.
Open project story →A 10 kW three-phase solar system, smart-load management, a reversible heat pump, a swimming pool used as a thermal field, plus centralized safety, comfort and energy sensors.
A 17-day motorcycle expedition through remote high-altitude roads, including the 4,655 m Ak-Baital Pass.
Mountain skiing in Kazakhstan, the Tatras and Andorra — snow, speed, technique and elevation.
China, Tibet, Vietnam, Myanmar, Thailand, Kazakhstan’s steppe and Tien Shan mountains, and the Maldives.
Interview with Valerii Tsoi, then CIO at AIX, about moving the Nasdaq Matching Engine to AWS and the rationale for cloud-first market infrastructure.
Open source ↗Public announcement and commentary on AIX adopting SWIFT Alliance Cloud on AWS.
Open source ↗Public commentary on resilient cloud-native market infrastructure and Kubernetes-based functional and non-functional testing.
Open source ↗AWS public reference list includes Astana International Exchange among market infrastructure workloads running in the cloud.
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