Currently · Blits.ai · Amsterdam

Agentic AI,
shipped
end to end.

Technical Program Manager — leading agentic AI delivery, multi-LLM orchestration, and pre-production risk sign-off for Tier-1 financial institutions.

Before Blits.ai: Team Lead at kimkim ($4M+ ARR, 8 destinations), founder of Canicula.club, and Lead Analyst at the Office of the President of Ukraine.

10yrs Launching advanced tech in production
4 Digital humans shipped end-to-end at Blits.ai
6 AI engagements closed with Tier-1 banks
$4M+ Annual revenue at kimkim travel-tech
3× Bookings growth at kimkim travel-tech
60% Manual workflows removed via API integrations

What the role asks for. What the experience shows.

The role asks for

  1. Drive end-to-end delivery of LLM and agentic AI programs across engineering, data, risk, and business stakeholders.
  2. Translate ambiguous AI capabilities into scoped roadmaps, milestones, owners, and delivery rhythms.
  3. Own model evaluation, pre-production risk review, and executive sign-off for regulated use cases.
  4. Coordinate vendors, platform APIs, STT/TTS providers, data pipelines, and inference infrastructure.
  5. Keep teams unblocked while surfacing risk early to banking project managers and sponsors.
  6. Turn pilots into repeatable delivery playbooks.

My experience shows

  1. Currently owns technical delivery of conversational AI and digital human products at Blits.ai.
  2. Leads strategic AI partnerships with Tier 1 financial institutions across the Middle East, Europe, and Turkey.
  3. Produces vulnerability assessments and LLM risk reports that support go/no-go decisions.
  4. Architects multi-LLM systems with conversational and tool-use layers, including agentic payment flows.
  5. Drives build/buy/partner decisions across frontier models, inference, data, STT, and client platform APIs.
  6. Leads Blits.ai's LLMs4EU evaluation workstream, defining metrics and methodologies with European partners.

The role asks for

  1. Run complex cross-functional programs with executive clients, legal, compliance, product, and engineering.
  2. Control scope, dependencies, timelines, delivery cadence, and escalation paths.
  3. Build operating models that make delivery repeatable across clients and markets.
  4. Convert requirements into plans, acceptance criteria, risk logs, and clear stakeholder updates.
  5. Balance vendor coordination, team load, and implementation constraints without losing momentum.
  6. Use metrics to improve delivery quality and operational outcomes.

My experience shows

  1. Structured and closed six AI partnership engagements with major banks across five countries.
  2. Aligns client executives, product, engineering, and compliance teams around AI delivery decisions.
  3. Creates repeatable delivery playbooks from complex technical and business requirements.
  4. Led kimkim teams across 8 destinations, generating $4M+ annually.
  5. Reduced manual workflows by 60% through Bokun and FareHarbor API integrations.
  6. Led financial modeling and macroeconomic analysis in a high-stakes government environment.

The role asks for

  1. Set AI product direction across roadmap, architecture, partnerships, governance, and commercial value.
  2. Make build/buy/partner calls across the agentic AI stack and vendor ecosystem.
  3. Define product evaluation, risk posture, and adoption path for regulated customers.
  4. Shape client discovery into product requirements, reusable patterns, and delivery strategy.
  5. Represent AI trade-offs clearly to executives, technical teams, and commercial stakeholders.
  6. Scale product ideas from pilots into partnership frameworks.

My experience shows

  1. Owns build/buy/partner decisions across model selection, inference, data pipelines, STT, and integrations.
  2. Provides forward-looking product strategy on dialect NLP gaps, avatar inference cost, and agentic architecture trade-offs.
  3. Turns banking requirements into scalable partnership frameworks and repeatable AI delivery playbooks.
  4. Architects product flows across payment APIs, CRM, core banking systems, and real-time merchant integrations.
  5. Defines LLM evaluation benchmarks and risk methodologies through LLMs4EU.
  6. Previously owned roadmaps, OKRs, product evolution, content strategy, UX analytics, and commercial growth at kimkim.

Resume evidence.

05/2025 — Present

Technical Program Manager

Blits.ai · Amsterdam

Currently leading delivery of conversational AI and digital human products for six Tier-1 banks across MEA, Europe, and Turkey.

  • Drove build/buy/partner decisions across model selection, evaluation, inference, data, STT, and embedded APIs.
  • Architected multi-LLM orchestration with conversational and tool-use layers — including agentic payment flows and SQL-driven catalog search.
  • Aligned client executives, product, engineering, and compliance teams around AI capabilities and delivery risk.
  • Delivered vulnerability assessments and LLM risk reports for go/no-go decisions.
  • Led the LLMs4EU evaluation workstream — defining benchmarks and methodologies across European partners.
05/2023 — 05/2025

Team Lead

kimkim · Amsterdam

Generated $4M+ annually across 8 destinations by leading cross-functional teams scaling AI-driven travel-tech.

  • Defined strategic roadmaps and OKRs; analyzed results to prioritize AI product evolution.
  • Spearheaded OpenAI integrations and scoring algorithms for travel activities.
  • Integrated Bokun and FareHarbor APIs — reduced manual workflows by 60%.
  • Improved UX flows through FullStory analytics and shadow sessions.
  • Owned content strategy and production of 500+ pieces annually to grow leads and engagement.
  • Improved supplier relations and in-trip support — 3× bookings, ⅓ issues.
05/2022 — 05/2023

Destination Development Manager

kimkim · Amsterdam

Launched a full-scale travel-tech product from scratch and managed multiple pivots within a year.

  • Built development and operational frameworks for Greece and Costa Rica.
  • Managed lead-generating content creation with a team of 3 editors.
05/2012 — 05/2022

Owner & Founder

Canicula.club · Remote EU

Built a custom platform for long-duration adventure tours serving 500+ clients with 50% annual growth over five years.

  • Negotiated supplier partnerships and beneficial B2B/B2C terms.
  • Implemented Google and Facebook ads, optimizing ROI through data-driven testing.
01/2008 — 05/2012

Lead Analyst

Office of the President of Ukraine · Kyiv

Led large-scale data analysis and financial modeling informing government decision-makers.

  • Developed and refined macroeconomic models (Excel, VBA, SPSS) for policy decision-makers.
  • Analyzed socio-economic and reform policy effectiveness; supported change-management frameworks.

Technical stack

SQL, Looker, Power BI, A/B testing, Azure DevOps, Jira, Confluence, Notion, Figma, Scrum, Kanban, LLM orchestration, TTS/STT APIs, prompt engineering, LangChain, RAG, Python, VBA, C, digital human engineering.

Product leadership

Product design, architecture, requirements, stakeholder leadership, operational optimization, SEO, content strategy, team-load projections, roadmap ownership, and delivery governance.

Education

M.Sc. Computer Systems Analysis · Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science · Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Languages

English fluent, Ukrainian native, Dutch A2, Spanish limited working.

Public builds.

Retirement Planner NL — an app that helps expats plan retirement in the Netherlands. Built & maintained solo on the side.

No-Fluff Media Converter — a lightweight macOS app (Swift / SwiftUI + ffmpeg) I built for myself: I do a lot of presentations and constantly need to shrink screen recordings and other videos to fit email attachment limits without losing quality. Quality- or size-targeted modes, side-by-side preview.

Transcriber — on-device speech intelligence for Android. Record, transcribe, diarize, translate, and clean up without leaving the phone. Gemma 4 + Whisper.cpp, Apache-2.0, sideload APK.

Open retirement app ↗ View media converter ↗ Open Transcriber ↗

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