Profile
Technology leader with 25+ years in software engineering, from hands-on development to running 150-plus-engineer organizations. I combine enterprise architecture, delivery leadership, and pre-sales across Generative AI, blockchain / DLT, and fintech, and I still ship product with my own hands.
Today I lead AI and blockchain delivery for enterprise clients at AXENIX, and in parallel design, build, and maintain a portfolio of live web products and Chrome extensions – solo, with a disciplined AI-assisted engineering loop. I care about clarity, reliability, and systems that behave predictably under real-world load.
Experience
Combine pre-sales, delivery leadership, and enterprise architecture across Generative AI, blockchain / DLT, and industrial-automation engagements.
- Build trusted client relationships, shape a pipeline of engagements, and own pre-sales and pilot accompaniment end-to-end.
- As architect within the Values Assurance team, provide architectural oversight and audits of projects moving through import-substitution programs at a large Top-3 bank.
- Managed a portfolio of DLT platforms – for an Information System Operator and a Digital Financial Assets (DFA) Exchange Operator – owning roadmaps, budgets, regulatory compliance, and information security (engagements now closed).
- Shape GenAI proposals and business cases; design PoCs and pilots; define quality metrics and success criteria; model ROI / TCO; plan integrations and the security perimeter.
- Lead adoption of internal GenAI solutions – assistants, RAG / knowledge retrieval, automated document processing – with data-quality monitoring and security practices.
- Acted as system architect for a portfolio of computer-vision and industrial-automation projects at a steel / metals manufacturing plant.
Lead design and delivery of agentic AI and GenAI solutions for enterprise clients – from problem framing through reference architecture, pilots, and production rollout, plus post-launch quality monitoring.
- Designed and shipped meeting-intelligence agents: transcription, speaker diarization, summarization, action-item extraction, and automatic minutes – integrated with corporate knowledge bases and calendars.
- Architected agentic AI inside an industrial MES environment: a reporting agent, an operator-assistant agent, and a live-telemetry agent letting operators query real-time equipment metrics in natural language.
- Reference architectures span LLM orchestration, Agentic RAG over MES documentation, tool-use / function-calling against MES APIs and historians, plus guardrails and human-in-the-loop controls.
- Pipelines built with LangChain, LangGraph, and Gravity; delivery accelerated with Claude Code and Codex. Day-to-day spans multi-agent workflows, evaluation and observability, prompt engineering, safety, and the enterprise integration layer (identity, audit, data residency, cost/latency).
- Led the blockchain-focused practice, managing delivery of distributed-ledger platforms for an Information System Operator and a DFA Exchange Operator.
- Led a consulting engagement selecting a regulatory-reporting system vendor for one of the country's top-3 banks.
- Owned commercial client relationships – discovered new opportunities and grew existing engagements.
Led the engineering behind the FLEXTERA platform and the Financial Core, owning software architecture across the FLEXTERA product line.
- Directed 12 development units across 5 cities (Moscow, Yaroslavl, Cheboksary, Novosibirsk, Perm) plus external contractors – 150+ engineers in total.
- Owned both resourcing of the company's Production Centres and the company-wide engineering technology stack; raised productivity by improving process manufacturability and engineering culture.
- Led the Systems Architecture unit and personally acted as System Architect on the company's strategic product initiative.
- Acted as Production Manager on the company's largest international project; coordinated teams across a multi-product programme.
- Chaired the Development Innovation Committee – trend scanning and R&D in software engineering.
- Built the team and organized the full software production cycle; company grew from 30 to 150 people during tenure.
- Provided architectural oversight of the systems under development.
- Engaged with key clients and contractors; explored and promoted the company in new markets.
- Built the department and assembled the team from the ground up.
- Organized the full software production cycle; engaged with key clients and contractors.
- Deputy head of system-platform development; earlier department head and lead software engineer.
- Software project management and platform development across the FA# and Master product lines.
- Master Labs – Head of Software Development (2003–2007): led the team and developed the system core for healthcare automation (Delphi, MS SQL).
- Altius Soft – Head of Software Development / Programmer (2000–2003): led a 5-engineer group building enterprise automation systems.
- Central Dental Clinic, FSB of Russia – Engineer, 1st category (1999–2000): built a staff time-tracking system; system administration.
- Guru Soft – Programmer (1997–1999): developed educational and family software.
Selected Products & Independent Work
Live products I build and maintain mostly solo under dimlight.online, with an AI agent inside a strict engineering harness. Metrics are auto-generated from the repositories.
PDF to Markdown
Live · 5.0★Turns real-world PDFs into clean Markdown – for people and for AI agents. Web app, browser extension, REST API, and a hosted MCP endpoint over an entitlement-aware job core.
MAK Cards Online
Open BetaA real-time web platform for metaphorical associative cards: infinite canvas, collaborative sessions, built-in chat and notes, no registration required.
Floating Notes · Multi Timer · Image to Base64 · Journaling App
Chrome extensionsA family of focused, offline-first Chrome extensions: context-anchored notes, parallel timers, a two-way Base64 image converter, and AI-guided journaling with structured reflection templates.
Architect Handbook
Open source · CC BY-SA 4.0A compact, battle-tested methodology for practicing software architects: 5 roles, 8 process phases, 30+ artifact templates, and 7 engagement playbooks – from express audits to enterprise transformations. AI-native, with enhancement points at every phase.
Proof of Work – Dashboards from the Repos
Not just strategy decks. These dashboards and the architecture map are generated straight from each repository by tooling I built – a metrics pass over the git tree plus a live production snapshot. Every number is the number in the source. Click any tile to zoom.
MAK Cards Online
PDF to Markdown
Selected Writing
- “Managed vibe coding: two live products, by the numbers” – on shipping maintainable software with an AI harness.
- “Four layers of image protection on a UGC platform” – Habr.
- “A Million Tokens and Moby-Dick: what large context windows really mean” – Medium.
- Regular essays on AI agents, context engineering, and software architecture – Substack.