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Mikalai Alimenkou
Tech & AI consultant · CTO advisor
Two decades in software: from Java developer to architect, delivery manager and CTO, then independent consultant since 2017.
Experience
- 2017 — now
Tech & AI consultant, organisational & agile coach
Independent, via XP Injection
- Defining and implementing AI strategy in organisations
- Architecture, technology and development process audits of any scale
- Long-term support of transformations: organisational change, Continuous Delivery, microservices, DevOps culture, agile
- Hands-on temporary roles (CTO, tech lead, agile coach) to reach the client’s goal
- 2023 — 2025
Organisational consultant, tech consultant, CTO advisor
monobank
- Company-wide organisational transformation
- Hiring new leaders to grow organisational maturity and engineering culture
- Engineering practices and processes to improve system stability for users
- Interim CTO of Market by Mono (Dec 2024 — Jun 2025): OKRs, engineering scaled 6× in 6 months, LeSS for 6+ teams, delivery for 9M+ users
- 2022 — 2023
Organisational consultant, CTO advisor
Fintech Farm
- LeSS implementation with 8+ development teams
- Microservices architecture evolution
- Engineering practices and release management
- 2020 — 2022
Digital transformation consultant, CIO advisor
Raiffeisen Bank Ukraine · Kyiv
- Company-wide digital transformation, including organisational design
- Microservices architecture, legacy migration and an internal developer platform on open source
- New engineering culture focused on Continuous Delivery; technical leadership of the Fairo product
- 2015 — 2017
Senior delivery manager, delivery supervisor
EPAM Systems · Kyiv
- Crisis management for a top-3 global logistics company; 150+ person program reorganised into feature teams
- Scaled Scrum with 10+ teams; delivery audits and recovery plans for troubled projects
- Head of the assessment committee for the Delivery Manager title; EngX program supervision in Ukraine
- 2006 — 2015
Senior developer → tech lead, solution architect → delivery manager
Zoral · Kyiv
- Highly available distributed system for internet data processing on ~300 AWS servers
- Scrum, Kanban and Continuous Delivery with full business engagement
- Engineering practices strong enough to work without separate testers and managers
- 2004 — 2006
Java developer → team lead
Software development, Minsk
- Full-stack Java development; first agile and XP practices in a fixed-price environment
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