Yurı Ihnatov.

Agentic AI, shipped end to end.

AI Product & Delivery Lead at Blits.ai in Amsterdam — owning agentic AI from problem to production: multi-LLM orchestration, evaluation-based governance, and pre-production risk sign-off for Tier-1 financial institutions.

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

Evaluation-gated releases — go/no-go backed by LLM risk reports

Agentic payment flows across core banking systems

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AI engagements closed with Tier-1 banks across MEA, Europe, and Turkey.

Six numbers, each one checkable.

What the role asks for vs. What the experience shows.

AI Product Manager

The role asks for My experience shows

Define the problem and the user before the spec — turn ambiguous market signals into a product thesis.

Defined kimkim's market-entry approach for new destinations — which markets to open and why — before building.

Set success metrics up front, then read post-launch signal to decide what ships next.

Set metrics and read the signal: removed 60% of manual workflows and grew bookings 3× after shipping integrations and activity scoring.

Make product decisions under ambiguity — scope, sequencing, and stack choice without complete information.

Chose the AI stack under ambiguity — model, inference, STT/TTS, and data — through build/buy/partner calls and A/B testing.

Treat governance as product surface — evaluation, guardrails, and sign-off users can trust.

Built the evaluation suite as a product with users: defined metrics and methodologies via LLMs4EU that gate go/no-go.

Convert discovery into a prioritized roadmap and OKRs across engineering, data, and commercial.

Set strategic roadmaps and OKRs at kimkim, analyzing results to prioritize what to build next.

Own the product end to end, from problem definition to shipped, monitored production.

Shipped agentic flows end to end at Blits.ai — payment, catalog search, and tool-use across a multi-LLM stack.

Resume evidence.

Five roles and one consistent pattern: building and shipping in regulated or operationally complex environments.

2025 — Present

AI Product & Delivery Lead

Blits.ai · Amsterdam

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

  • Led technical delivery of four digital human projects, coordinating engineering teams and cross-functional partners to ship production-ready solutions.
  • Built the full interaction stack — from user voice input (ASR, NLU, dialogue) through to the digital human's synthesized voice, behavior, and on-screen presence.
  • Fine-tuned LLMs, optimized RAG systems and data pipelines, and implemented advanced prompt engineering to improve accuracy, reliability, and control.
  • Built and ran the LLM evaluation program end to end — automated evals, production-conversation evals, and human re-testing — sustaining a 99%+ pass rate in English and Arabic.
  • Led the testing team to design experiments, run structured evaluations, and identify the most robust technical solutions.
  • 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.
2023 — 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, issues down 3×.
2022 — 2023

Destination Development Manager

kimkim · Amsterdam

Launched a full-scale travel-tech product from scratch.

  • Managed multiple product 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.
2012 — 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.
2008 — 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.

AI & data

LLM orchestrationRAGPrompt engineeringLangChainTTS/STT APIsDigital human engineeringPythonSQLA/B testing

Delivery & analytics

Azure DevOpsJiraConfluenceNotionFigmaScrumKanbanLookerPower BIVBA

Product leadership

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

Education & languages

M.Sc. Computer Systems Analysis · Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. B.Sc. Mathematics & Computer Science · Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. English fluent, Ukrainian native, Dutch A2, Spanish limited working.

Public projects.

The side products I can talk about publicly. Other experiments stay private until they ship.

Retirement Planner NL

Helps expats plan retirement in the Netherlands. Live web app, built and maintained solo — backed by three weeks of in-depth research.

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On-device speech

Desktop & mobile utilities

Talk to me directly.

Direct lines. Reach out anytime — replies typically within 24 hours.

Based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Yuri Ihnatov. AI Product & Delivery Lead Amsterdam, Netherlands