About

I’m a Product Manager and Product Owner with more than ten years of experience delivering complex technology products: real-time 3D and VR applications, web and mobile platforms, enterprise simulators and, most recently, AI-driven tools and multi-agent systems.

As a project manager I run delivery end to end — scope, budget, risk, vendors and teams of up to 35 people for a Tier-1 Silicon Valley client under strict confidentiality. As a product owner I own the roadmap, turn unclear business needs into backlogs and user stories, separate core platform capabilities from one-off client requests, and take products from first MVP to release.

A background in optical and laser engineering helps me talk to technical teams and judge feasibility early. I have applied AI to production workflows for more than two years, and I build the tools described in my cases myself with AI coding agents, n8n and Docker.

How I work

• Methodology follows the work. Scrum for iterative software, Kanban for live-ops maintenance, and Waterfall with PRINCE2 principles (working knowledge) for hardware procurement, compliance and fixed-budget phases.
• Continuous discovery. On a B2B healthcare VR platform I ran regular interviews with doctors and patients and turned the feedback into backlogs, user stories and priorities.
• Iterative delivery and UAT. Regular acceptance cycles with real users, and backlog triage that keeps the core loop stable while new features arrive.
• Platform versus custom. I separate what belongs in the product from what a single client asked for, and I say no early when scope would hurt the platform.
• Commercial accountability. RFP, RFQ and SOW work, risk-adjusted budgets, vendor and MSA negotiation. I know what to promise and what to avoid.
• Feasibility first. I challenge estimates and surface conflicts between software and physical infrastructure before they reach production.

Career at a glance

• 2026 – now. Freelance Applied AI Product Manager — synthetic AI focus groups (Project Avatar), an Unreal Engine + YOLO pipeline for EW-resilient target recognition, AI-assisted prototyping.
• 2022 – 2026. Vertigo Games — Senior Producer, scaling a Tier-1 client team from 8 to 35 FTEs; before that Senior Outsourcing Producer on the AAA VR game Metro Awakening.
• 2021 – 2022. Pixward Studio — co-founder and COO, product owner of Boss Fighters.
• 2018 – 2021. Jasoren — Senior Product Owner / Lead Project Manager for enterprise simulators, virtual showrooms and advergames for clients in Belgium, Germany, France, Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
• 2015 – 2018. Independent Product Owner for EU and US clients: web platforms, high-load backends, SaaS MVPs and markerless AR with computer vision.
• 2004 – 2014. Product Owner / Technical Director at New Vision Technologies, earlier event direction roles — interactive installations, projection mapping, gesture recognition and arena-scale shows.

Tools and fluency

• Jira, Confluence, Notion; Scrum, Kanban, Waterfall
• AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor), multi-agent systems, n8n workflow automation
• Unreal Engine, computer vision (YOLO, OpenCV), Docker and Nginx

Education and languages

• M.Sc. in Optical and Laser Engineering, National Technical University of Ukraine “Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
• Bachelor of Finance and Economics, International University of Finance
• English: professional working proficiency · Ukrainian and Russian: native · Dutch: A2, actively learning

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