FinTech, Blockchain & AI Strategy

Building AI-powered products, blockchain infrastructure, and digital banks.

CPO / Head of Product and AI strategy advisor with 15 years across banking, fintech, digital assets, product delivery, and regulated innovation.

15 years Banking, fintech, digital assets, and AI
0 to market Digital banks and regulated products launched from scratch
50 people Cross-functional teams and stakeholder ecosystems
AI in production Agents, RAG, scoring, fraud detection, and LLMOps

Latest essays

Long-form thinking on AI strategy, digital banking, blockchain infrastructure, and regulated product delivery.

AI Isn't Killing Entry Level Jobs. It's Killing the Career Ladder Those Jobs Were Built On

Over 500 million young people under 24 are already in the labor force. A third work in occupations where AI is reshaping tasks right now. But the real paradox: 68% became more productive, while 45% work longer hours. A look at why entry level is no longer the first rung of the career ladder, and what that means.

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The Twilight of Chatbots: Why Your AI Workflow Is Already Obsolete

You stopped being surprised by what seemed like science fiction yesterday. We are inside an exponential curve, and the real shift is not in the models, but in how we work with them. From dialog with chatbots to managing agents, from prompt engineering to domain expertise.

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Work Rhythms: What Anthropic Learned From Millions of Claude Sessions

What happens when a company sees every session of its model not in weekly snapshots but continuously, hour by hour? Anthropic delivered an X-ray of daily life: recipes at 6 p.m., tax filings the day before the deadline, late-night work by marketers, and the hope that AI will take the drudgery and leave the meaning to humans.

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Executive CV

I build digital banks, fintech product portfolios, AI-agent workflows, compliance automation, and blockchain infrastructure in regulated environments.

2013 FidoWallet
2019 O.Bank
2023 Xwork / NAPP
Now AI + FinTech Strategy

Selected projects

2019 - 2023

O.Bank (Idea Bank)

Product Owner / Project Manager

Built a digital neobank from zero to 12 product lines with two-week zero-downtime releases.

  • 45% organic month-over-month growth
  • 60%+ retention
  • 4 years without critical pentest incidents

2013 - 2015

FidoWallet

Project Manager, Mobile Banking

Rebuilt onboarding and key transaction flows for a mobile bank serving 500k customers.

  • 500k customers
  • +80% transaction volume
  • +60% customer base

2023

Xwork

Product Owner

Launched an NFT marketplace for digital creators with fiat entry points and smart-contract royalty distribution.

  • 18% first-mint conversion
  • 5x lower average gas cost
  • +40% mint volume

2023 - 2024

NAPP + Uzinfocom

Blockchain Advisor

Advised on digital assets, national blockchain architecture, RWA tokenization, Token.uz, and VASP categorization.

  • RWA regulatory framework
  • VASP licensing rules
  • +54 positions in Chainalysis index context

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