Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU)

Chief Architect, MD at Chase

Chase

Chief Architect, Managing Director

Leading Strategy & Architecture function, driving ambitious technology transformation of the bank, rebuilt and reinvigorated the architecture function at NAB.Defined NAB’s industry-leading Multi-cloud strategy and execution approach. Transformed architecture function for NAB Group, enabling both breadth - from derivatives trading to ATMs - and depth, covering modern data and distributed systems approaches, creation of a flexible and manageable API ecosystem and integration patterns.Created architecture lab, enabling low-cost experimentation and code-level architectural innovation and design validation.Established practices for distributed systems engineering, event-driven architecture, domain-driven design, API rationalization. Linked core architecture patterns with engineering foundation recipes/archetypes. Completely revamped architectural risk management and controls, simplified and streamlined governance, simplified processes to allow technologists to focus on technology, not tickets, forms and templates. Created a clearinghouse for group-wide rationalization of technology choices. Implemented a simple but effective Technical Debt management framework, allowing Tech Debt to be quantified in dollars.

Group Chief Architect

- Managing Director driving technology transformation, establishing new architecture and technology strategy* Set up and leading bank-wide technical working groups for AI, Machine Learning and Distributed Systems* Defining the vision for next-generation Group-level capabilities for fraud detection, customer service, consumer credit and merchant acquiring and payments solutions* Fostering innovation and experimentation - architectural ideas expressed in code not PowerPoint* Defined target architecture state and actionable, practical principles and patterns for multiple business units across the globe* Building world-class enterprise architecture practice with low-overhead processes and no-nonsense metrics, connecting architectural decisions with tangible business outcomes* Steering Barclays Group-level technology strategy through global governance forums* Chairman, Group Technology Council

Barclays

Chief Technology Officer, Managing Director

- Chief Architect for Global Credit, providing financial flexibility to individuals and small/medium businesses across the world* Delivered highly innovative PayPal Global Credit Platform, including flagship integration with Apple Online Store* Built Solution Architecture practice supporting large enterprise partners, regional solutions and M&A* Delivered technology strategy for re-architecture of PayPal Wallet, including new capabilities and radical technology change to support rapid development of new multi-channel experience.  * Led re-architecture of PayPal products for 160+ million active users in 200 markets, with transaction volume > $200 billion/year* Key contributor to innovation in Customer-facing product space* Lead architect for technical due diligence in M&A, including majority of the recent acquisitions* Led technology stack transformation:-     - Enabling high flexibility and velocity of change in applications-     - Spearheading introduction of event-driven architecture, message-oriented integration patterns and eventual consistency strategies for multi-datacenter deployments-     - Transitioning from programmatically implemented to data-driven, rules-based business logic-     - Driving SOA (service-oriented architecture) and multi-platform integration patterns-     - Achieving higher degrees of extensibility and invariance in core entity models* As Director of Architecture for Consumer Technologies Group within PayPal, built a star team of architects and principal engineers, effectively directing the efforts of over 350 staff engineers responsible for all B2C and P2P products and experience, Global Marketing and BI/Analytics

PayPal

Chief Architect - PayPal Consumer Products & Experience, PayPal Credit

<a href="http://LiveJournal.com">LiveJournal.com</a>, founded in 1999, boasts 25+ million registered users globally, and is one of the premier platforms for social blogging.Built a San Francisco-based subsidiary from scratch, hiring top-notch software engineering and technical operations teams to take over <a href="http://LiveJournal.com">LiveJournal.com</a> after its acquisition by SUP.

LiveJournal, Inc.

CTO - LiveJournal, Inc.

- Joined this ambitious online media start-up as employee #1. * Chief Architect leading implementation of the business and product strategy* Rapidly built agile software engineering, QA, technical product management and data center operations teams from 0 to 100+ engineers in the first 18 months.* Managed all aspects of technical architecture and design, software development, QA, delivery and deployment.* Developed scalable infrastructure and established robust processes to support aggressive 2-week release cycle for high traffic sites (25+ million users, peak loads > 30 million hits/hour.)* Led business-critical B2B negotiations, developed efficiently reproducible integration patterns and bespoke solutions, resulting in over 30 successful partnerships.* Ensured success of key acquisitions, including term sheets, knowledge and intellectual property transfer roadmaps, operational transition and team integration.

SUP Media

CTO - SUP Media

- Lead technologist for an enterprise start-up building Internet portals and extranets for Fortune-500 clients.* Pioneered the use of open-source technologies, LAMP and Apache Jakarta components for enterprise app development.* Led design, implementation and worldwide deployment of a unified content management system for scores of web properties, authoring key web services adapters for integration with legacy systems.* Led an overhaul of 20+ major web properties, improving content and feature delivery lifecycle, security and scalability. Re-implemented key functionality in Java, PHP, Perl and other web application stacks.* Responsible for security and operation of financial systems; led Sarbanes-Oxley compliance effort.* Designed and implemented key enterprise integration components.* Wrote 10,000s of lines of Java code for key modules; Resolved security, performance and functional concerns in PHP, Perl, ColdFusion and Java code.

Burson-Marsteller

Enterprise Architect

Joined the founding management team as Director of Technology. Built cutting-edge technology capabilities and ensured success of this ambitious publishing start-up, helping it become one of the major media brands.

Afisha Industries

Director of Technology

- Led requirements analysis and systems design for key customers including Central Bank of Russia, Chevron-Texaco, Deutsche Telecom GmbH and major oil companies and banks. * Led implementation and security certification for a MasterCard transaction processing center.	* Responsible for revamping project management and resource allocation practices, improving efficiency and delivering significant improvements in customer satisfaction.

Sergei Komarov