Technology & market research
Technologies, implementation approaches, markets and competitors, supported by expert, founder or stakeholder interviews where useful.
Profile & experience
Researcher.
Engineer.
Strategist.
I work on business decisions that require a clear understanding of a product, technology or market.
My background spans venture research, software engineering, systems and business analysis, and early-stage product work. I find the missing evidence, test technical claims, ask questions that reshape the problem, and turn the findings into something both leaders and delivery teams can use.
Technical assessment
Architecture and documentation review, hands-on testing, evaluation criteria and explicit limits of available evidence.
Product & systems discovery
Problem framing, workflows, requirements, first-version scope and alignment between business and engineering.
Requirements & decision documents
Recommendations, requirements, system maps and technical explanations that another team can put to work.
Experience
What I have actually done.
Roles, responsibilities and outcomes that show how I approach research, technology and product work.
Research Analyst / Engineer
- Influenced a shift from TON-only sourcing toward a broader, problem- and value-led thesis across payments, cross-border fintech, crypto cards and selected opportunities beyond crypto.
- Screened 100+ early-stage companies and conducted 30+ interviews with founders, including companies working in payments and cross-border finance, alongside ongoing ecosystem sourcing.
- Assessed prospective investments through architecture and whitepaper review, product testing, research into teams and transactions, and founder interviews; clearly identified what the available evidence could not establish.
- Designed a comparative benchmark for TON swap-routing solutions; the confidential report informed jury decisions in an ecosystem competition.
- Helped the CEO structure priorities and initiatives, maintained relationships with portfolio founders and partner funds, and coordinated another analyst.
CTO / Consultant / Product builder
- Led technical strategy and product development for a private platform for investment products: requirements, architecture, rapid prototypes and coordination between business and engineering.
- Built a working prototype for tracking investor ownership in cryptocurrency funds on TON in two weeks while learning a new language and execution model.
- Researched the launch of a cryptocurrency exchange: jurisdiction and licensing comparison, product and business plan, budget, timeline and local leadership search. The company was established, licensed and launched.
- Built DreamVoice, an LLM-based dream-reflection product with persistent personal context and paying users.
System / Business Analyst
- Defined functional and technical requirements for internal products and partner integrations.
- Compared the technical structure of competing cross-chain, oracle and interoperability solutions and proposed product improvements.
- Created a system map reused across internal documentation, public technical documentation and marketing communication.
- Researched DeFi infrastructure and prepared technical source material for the corporate blog.
Development / R&D
- Developed Solidity smart contracts and Python services for NFT platforms, DAO tooling and generative-collection products.
- Researched technology trends and translated them into product-development proposals.
- Created a whitepaper that aligned the team on development goals; maintained documentation, designed QA criteria and test scenarios.
- Managed project communication across engineering, partners and investors.
Research Intern
Researched the Corda blockchain platform and its possible use in banking, then presented a technology assessment and working demo application.
Publications
Work you can read in full.
These pieces show how I investigate and explain technical systems. Most decision and discovery deliverables are confidential; short case summaries are available on the services page.
Journal article · 2025
Tools for Building Tokenized Communities
Co-authored research on tokenization mechanisms, implementation approaches and the technical, social and economic problems of tokenized communities.
Open DOI ↗ Technical explainer · 2025Sharding Smart Contracts on TON
A technical analysis of TON architecture and the design considerations around sharding smart contracts.
Open article ↗Education
HSE University · Faculty of Computer Science
Software Engineering
Additional education: applied economics, venture analysis, smart-contract auditing, software-development management and conscious communication.
Core capabilities
- Researchtechnologies, markets, competitors, interviews and hypothesis testing
- Product & systemsproblem framing, workflows, requirements and first-version scope
- Technical assessmentarchitecture, documentation, prototypes and hands-on testing
- EngineeringPython, Go, C#, Solidity and LLM products
- Business contextventure analysis, fintech and early-stage products
Independent practice
I now work independently.
If you need to investigate a product, technology, vendor or market and turn the findings into a decision, the services page explains how we can work together.
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