It starts with a healthy process — and I have built that foundation twice. AI SDLC transformation, technical audit, fractional CTO. Behind that, 22 years in engineering: the #1 digital bank in its region, Wise, Visa Europe, Kaspersky Lab, Apple.
22
years in engineering
10 → 200
team growth; ten engineers became leads
99.6%
crash-free rate
×2
delivery speed on greenfield
Not “hand everyone an agent”, but the opposite: AI goes first into feature preparation and planning — and only last into writing code. Delivery roughly 2x on greenfield and +60% on brownfield; overtime and incidents nearly gone.
The transformation worked because DDD, docs-as-code and team-wide artefact review were already in place. I introduced them earlier — while turning around two stalled replacement projects, processing and anti-fraud.
With a team built from scratch, a working end-to-end digital-banking PoC in 10 weeks — no AI involved. Fast delivery was the norm long before agents.
I invert the order of adoption: development gets AI last.
AI goes first into feature preparation and planning: agents break down grooming artefacts, speed up documentation review, and generate tasks, diagrams and test cases straight from artefacts. The method is BMAD layered on top of DDD and docs-as-code.
What you get: quarter planning dissolves into the ordinary process; delivery roughly 2x on greenfield and +60% on brownfield; overtime and incidents almost disappear.
An honest read before you invest in, acquire, or take responsibility for an engineering organisation: architecture, delivery process, team and risk — a prioritised picture of strengths and of the work required to fix the rest, in plain language and with the reasoning shown.
Senior engineering leadership without a permanent hire: technical direction, hiring and growing the team, a healthy delivery process, and the architectural calls that are hard to walk back. Part of the week, or for a fixed term.
I mentor engineers and leads the way I grew ten leads from my own team — on real work: a steady process, explicit requirements, and decisions made through ADR and RFC.
Talks, workshops and corporate courses drawn from real transformations: AI-assisted development, DDD, docs-as-code — what worked, what failed and why. No hype, no vendor pitch.
Flagship · work in progress
Development gets AI last: planning and feature preparation come first, on top of DDD and docs-as-code. Delivery roughly 2x on greenfield and +60% on brownfield.
Read the caseTurnaround
Two vendor-replacement projects that had produced nothing — 2.5 years on anti-fraud, 13 months on processing — turned into steady delivery with almost no rework.
Read the caseGreenfield
A team built from scratch shipped a working end-to-end digital-banking PoC in 10 weeks — no AI — straight in the target architecture. The Minimum Lovable Product is passing the central bank audit.
Read the caseMy work sits where the three meet; in recent years AI has joined all of them. For nearly three years I have led mobile development at the #1 digital bank in its region, and step by step took on the wider digital banking platform, processing and anti-fraud. The release cadence went from once every one or two months to daily releases.
2023 — present
The #1 digital bank in its region. Head of mobile development; digital banking platform, processing and anti-fraud. The team grew from 10 to about 200 people.
2022 — 2023
International defense contractor. Development group lead; R&D centre of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), Herzliya (project under NDA).
2021 — 2022
Wise. Head of mobile development — a single app for all markets.
2020 — 2021
Visa Europe. Lead of the iOS development group and deputy Android lead in Visa’s crypto-application lab.
2017 — 2020
Kaspersky Lab. Lead developer; talks at Kaspersky Dev&Night, internal courses.
2015 — 2017
Contract development. Information systems for banks, insurers and franchises across the US and Europe, including KFC.
2013 — 2015
Apple (contractor). Senior developer on the Calendar app.
2007 — 2013
MTS, Russia. Telecom in every form: billing, digital PBX and Asterisk, monitoring a network of 15,000 switches, support CRM.
2004 — 2007
Embedded C. Software engineer in manufacturing.
“AI pays off only where a healthy process sits underneath it. Build the foundation — and AI compounds it.”
Tell me where your team is now and where you want to get to. The fastest way to reach me is email; Telegram works too.