we could work together
One call. €200
60 minutes on one specific decision. Send context beforehand, and we spend the hour on the decision rather than on background.
Project work. From €3,000 per month
I take one thing end to end (the product, the funnel, or the team around it) and come back with what's breaking and what to do about it. Then we agree on the scope, the format, and what counts as a result, and get on with it.
Nonprofits and community projects: free or at cost, a couple of slots each quarter ☻
To start, write to [email protected].
I can help with
AI products
Where the technology actually helps, where it's decoration, and what not to build. I build with these tools every day, so I can usually tell what a team can ship in a week and what will quietly take three months.
Zero to one
Launching something that doesn't exist yet: what the product is, who it's for, and the first version that proves it. I've done this four times already.
The organisation around the product
Hiring, structure, and how quality collapses as you add people. I've made most of the expensive mistakes already: wrong hires at the wrong stage, structure that outgrew itself, decisions kept too close to the founders. I can help you avoid them, or at least make them cheaper.
Education and impact products
The part I know best: putting social impact and business in the same room. Bootcamps, curriculum, completion and employment rates, and getting a big brand to join a programme as a participant rather than a logo. With adidas we built six football pitches, raised ₽14.6M (about €165K), and reached 8M+ views. Other partners: Teach For All, Yandex, Miro, Tinkoff Bank.
experience
Journey Now. Co‑Founder, CEO
An AI product for personalised learning. You tell it what you want to learn, it lays out the tasks, and it adjusts as you go.
Yandex Practicum. Co‑Founder, Head of Product
From zero to €12M annual revenue. 30,000 students a year, 25+ programmes, 71% of graduates employed (HSE University research). I ran the programming faculty, the flagship and the largest coding bootcamp in Russia and the CIS.
TripleTen. Strategic Partner
US market entry: product strategy, curriculum, and educational frameworks adapted for the market.
Kruzhok. Co‑Founder, CEO
38 free week-long programmes for teenagers in villages and small towns. Built with adidas, Miro, Tinkoff Bank, Teach For All, and Strelka Institute.
Moscow Coding School. Programme Author, CEO
An offline coding school built around practice and project work, taught by guest instructors from SoundCloud, Google, and other companies.
Engineering
Co‑founder and CTO of Orientir, a design and web development studio, 2017 → 2018.
Web developer at Astroshock, 2016 → 2017, including the World Chess Championship site.
Teaching
Lecture series for HSE Art & Design School. Events with the British Council, Impact Hub, Beat Film Festival, Friedrich‑Ebert‑Stiftung, and Harbour Space University.
Moscow State University. MSc Mathematics
Forbes 30 Under 30, 2021.
Featured in Deutsche Welle, Esquire, Monocle, Kommersant, RBC, and a YouTube film by Yuri Dud that got 5.7M views.