My Journey

  • 2022 - Present
    Indie Startups & AI Exploration

    Returned to self indie way after Santiment. Focusing on Hardware DIY, DevOps, and diving deep into AI/ML, Deep Learning, and Generative models. Living and working in Russia.

    Active Projects:
    • Napatam.ru - Reinvent GetPocket in 2025 + LLMs
    • Rupilot.ru - Russian Github Copilot (Closed)

  • 2017 - 2022
    Santiment - Chief Product Officer

    Joined the Swiss crypto company Santiment as a frontend developer. Wrote ~100k lines of code, designed the first app, payment form, and onboarded the first 1k paying users and major clients like Bitfinex and Bloomberg. Promoted to CPO after 2 years. Grew the team to 50+ people from 19 countries. Excellent experience in global hiring.


  • 2013 - 2017
    Bank Project & Music Service

    Worked on internet acquiring for SNG Bank as seller, support, and developer. Helped make the service profitable in one quarter. Also developed an online tablature service for guitarists, sold to GuitarJam after a few years. Wrote a successful Habr article that brought 2k users.

    Created Android games and Flash games, including this one.


  • 2010
    Graduation & First Projects

    Graduated with a degree in ASOIU Engineering. Created popular addons for the game Allods Online, including "Agrometer" downloaded 70k times. Realized I could work from anywhere and manually implemented sorting in code for the first time.


  • Before 2010
    Early Beginnings

    Started my journey in development, experimenting with various failed startups including Groupon-like and Skyeng-like services.