CTO / Head of Development · 25 years in IT · 10+ years leading tech teams
Engineering leader who has been on every side of the table: the entire IT department of an ISP, a one-man web studio, 10 years of BigTech at Yandex, and the CTO seat in a non-tech industry. I build teams, ship products, and are able to measure it-stuff in business metrics.
- Head of Development — Wildberries Bank — current
- CTO, Commercial Division — SAMOLET Group (proptech, one of Russia's largest developers) — +46% organic traffic YoY, 3s LCP, 99.9% uptime, 170+ engineers, 1B+ RUB budget
- 10 years — Yandex — highload (1k+ RPS), peta-scale data, AdTech (CPC/CPM billing)
- Founder — iT Clever (one-man web studio) — full cycle: cold outreach → negotiation → development → delivery → ongoing support. 100% of clients through direct sales
- Sole System Administrator — Yauza Telecom (ISP) — the entire IT function of a company on one person: servers in a pigeon-infested attic, 3 a.m. outages, subscribers on the phone, installer crews to coordinate. No backup, no excuses
Strategic leadership · Team building (170+) · AI adoption in engineering · Architecture & highload · Budget management · Legacy refactoring · Turning engineering cost centers into business results
Python Go Java C Perl / legacy Linux Nuxt 3 / modern web Web Vitals HighLoad Peta-scale data AI Engineering
- 🎙 From Yandex to SAMOLET — and AI instead of juniors — Wiseman Talks
- 🎙 A good developer thinks like a CTO — SHTOZH podcast
- 🎙 AI made code cheap — SHTOZH podcast
- 📰 Expert commentary on AI agents & adoption metrics — TAdviser