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Founder - Swiftward (since 2025)

Swiftward
  • Founder, CEO & CTO of Swiftward - an on-prem control plane for AI. It decides what an AI agent is allowed to do, enforces that at runtime, and records every decision so it can be audited and replayed.
  • Policy as versioned code: test a change against real past traffic before it ships, run a new version in shadow beside the live one, roll it back, and replay any past decision against the exact version that made it.
  • Built for teams whose automated decisions carry consequences - AI governance, risk & compliance, trust & safety.

IT Entrepreneur (since 2018)

IKITLAB
  • 8+ years of entrepreneurial experience - founded and managed IT companies:
    • Swiftward - Founder, CEO & CTO (since 2025).
    • Disciplinedware, LLC - Founder & CTO (since 2022). Technical advisory for founders and engineering teams: AI automation, multi-agent systems, real-time and optimization engines.
    • IT Vectura, LLC - Co-Founder and former CTO (since 2022). A declarative low-code platform for logistics (TMS / YMS / WMS), with custom routing and scheduling engines.
    • IKITLAB, LLC - Co-Founder, Head of Engineering and Operations (2018-2022). A global engineering partner for startups: led engineering for 15+ startup MVPs and SaaS products across logistics, fintech and banking, e-commerce, healthtech, edtech and crypto.
  • Building engineering teams, establishing delivery processes, defining MVPs, experimenting with PoCs.
  • Designing IT architecture, implementing it, and scaling services and products.

Teams / Project Leader (since 2005)

PMP
  • 20+ years of project and service management experience.
  • Various trainings on leadership, team management and psychology.
  • Managed local and remote teams of up to 30 employees.
  • Prepared proposals and all contractual documentation; gathered requirements, designed solution architectures, created specifications, strategies, plans.
  • Good knowledge of project, program, and portfolio management according to PMI standards.
  • Exams/certifications:
    • Managing Projects with Microsoft Office Project
    • Project Management Professional (PMI PMP)® – since 2008
    • Disciplined Agile Senior Scrum Master (DASSM) – since 2021
  • Professional Memberships:
    • Project Management Institute (PMI)
    • PMI Moscow chapter
  • Public activities:

Software Engineer (since 1999)

  • 25+ years of programming experience: designed, developed and maintained multi-tier/microservice desktop, web and mobile applications.
  • Various courses and books on IT technologies for continuing education.
  • Estimated software projects, created implementation designs, applied design patterns and clean architecture.
  • Worked with the technologies from ancient Win32 / COM / MFC / Delphi through .NET / Java to modern React/Vue & Golang & ML/Python & Solidity & docker/k8s.
  • Setup and maintained processes and IT tools for efficient software development: various source control systems, continuous integration systems, task & time trackers, quality management systems, NFT/automation tools, knowledge bases.
  • Microsoft Certified Professional:
    • Designing and Implementing Databases with MS SQL
    • Developing and Implementing Web Applications with .NET

Portfolio

  • Managed and supervised projects for large corporations:
    • Citibank
    • Raymond James
    • TD Ameritrade
    • Nuffield Health
    • Thomson Reuters
  • Managed and supervised projects for tech startups in various industries:
    • travel, transportation, logistics
    • e-commerce, marketplaces
    • content management, workflows, business automation
    • e-learning, coaching, consultations
    • health and fitness
    • finance, banks, fintech, blockchain

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