I build products from zero to one, the platforms that carry them at scale, and the teams that run both.
Twenty-five years of shipping production software, from developer infrastructure used by thousands of teams to regulated fintech and AI-native products. Today AI sits at the center of how I design systems, run engineering and organize teams.
Experience
Supersolid Systems · CEO & Co-founder
2026 — present- Designed the trading platform end to end: it takes in market data, hosts trading strategies, enforces risk and health limits, sends orders to brokers, and gives operators one console to watch and control everything.
- Built a research engine that finds which of more than 14,000 US stocks move together, fast enough to rebuild a full year of history in under fifteen seconds.
- Set the rule that a strategy earns capital only from its live results after real trading costs, never from backtests alone.
- Organized engineering around AI coding agents that work from written briefs and are checked at every step, so a three-person founding team ships like a much larger one.
Elara Travel · CTO
2025 — 2026- Built the product end to end: a conversational travel planner on a serverless backend with real-time sync.
- Designed the multi-agent AI concierge at the core of the product, with specialist agents for hotels and destinations.
- Connected live hotel inventory through Sabre, the global travel booking network, so recommendations reflect what is actually available.
- Put AI operations in place from day one: versioned prompts, tracing on every model call and production error monitoring.
TrueML · Staff Engineer → Engineering Manager → Senior Engineering Manager
2021 — 2025- Led the Operations and Compliance engineering team, which built and maintained the core systems of the debt-resolution platform.
- Led the architecture and development of a new CRM to replace a legacy system.
- Promoted to Senior Engineering Manager to lead Agentic Workflows, a team building AI-driven automation for how the company engages its customers.
DeployBot · Project & Technical Lead
2013 — 2017- Rebuilt the deployment engine as a product of its own, adding Docker-based build environments and customizable build steps.
- Owned the roadmap, the infrastructure and advanced customer support with a two-person engineering team.
- Got the business ready to sell: code and documentation in order, billing moved from Chase Paymentech to Stripe, hosting moved from dedicated servers to AWS.
- Trained the buyer's engineers and handed the product over cleanly.
Beanstalk · Original Technical Lead
2007 — 2015- Designed the web application and hosting backend, and scaled them from zero to millions of page views a month under strict uptime requirements.
- Built the deployment engine, which ran up to 50,000 customer deployments a day.
- Rebuilt how incoming code was processed, 50,000 to 100,000 commits a day, making the critical steps 30 times faster and cutting interruptions customers noticed.
- Designed code mirrors in several regions that customers could read from and write to, each finding its nearest copy automatically.
Conveyor · Technical Lead
2017 — 2020- Built the cross-platform desktop client from scratch: 50,000 lines, designed to work offline and update live.
- Retrained the team's Ruby and JavaScript developers and designers on TypeScript, Electron and React.
- Moved the infrastructure from dedicated servers to Google Cloud and Kubernetes, so it scales and recovers on its own.
- Designed the build and release pipeline to survive failures and stream its logs live.
AI in practice
- Elara Travel. Designed the AI travel concierge: a lead agent hands hotel and destination questions to specialist agents without losing the conversation, running on Google Gemini with live Sabre hotel inventory, versioned prompts and every model call traced.
- TrueML. Led the Agentic Workflows team, building AI-driven automation for consumer engagement inside a regulated debt-resolution business.
- Supersolid. Run engineering with teams of AI coding agents under explicit briefs, journals and verification gates, and use models in market research where every claim is checked against live results.
Career
- 2026 —Supersolid Systems, CEO & Co-founder. Quantitative trading and market-analysis software, AI products.
- 2025 — 2026Elara Travel, CTO. AI-first luxury travel agency, zero to one.
- 2021 — 2025TrueML, Senior Engineering Manager. Agentic Workflows; earlier Operations and Compliance, and staff engineer.
- 2007 — 2021Wildbit, Principal Engineer & Technical Lead. Beanstalk, DeployBot, Conveyor, and Postmark's anomaly-detection data pipeline.
- 2003 — 2007Apricode, Founder, CEO & CTO. Software consultancy; led a team of designers and developers.
- 2000First company, Founder. An online ad network, acquired by a competitor.
Strengths
Zero-to-one delivery · Architecture and platform strategy · AI-native engineering · Teams and organization · Regulated, high-stakes systems · Founders, vendors and cost
Education
Siberian State Technological University, Bachelor's degree, Applied Informatics and Social Psychology, 2003 — 2007.
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