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The Uvarov Review

ym8 — “your mate”, London text-speak  ·  A late edition  ·  Founded MMXXVI in London  ·  Vol. III, No. V

Section B · Records of the House

Vasiliy Uvarov — Work record: roles, side projects, and verified metrics.

Records.

A working ledger of jobs held and products shipped. Numbers from the field, sourced to programmes that ran; numbers from the bench, counted with find + wc -l.

Current · The Day Job

Chief Data & AI Officer, Altery

Promoted from CPO in June 2025. Pulling a UK EMI fintech toward an AI-augmented operating model — route by route, agent by agent.

CAIDO since June 2025, promoted from CPO after building the product and platform foundation. The remit is AI transformation in flight: making agents useful in a regulated EMI, not at a demo. Systems that know where company context lives, call the right tools, respect permissions, control token usage, and help humans finish work faster.

The platform layer. 192 production-grade skills across 14 domains — compliance, engineering, marketing, data, QA, operations, agents, documentation, product, startup, document processing, developer tools, AI coding agents, Altery regulatory — wired through a six-router orchestration system. Multi-agent frameworks with swarm orchestration, MCP integration, and durable workflows.

The coordination layer. requirements-hub — the cross-repo coordination repo that solves the multi-repo discoverability problem for 135 services. ArgoCD-tracked prod state across Riga and AMS clusters. Repo-local doc governance (README 123/135, AGENTS.md 17/135). 581 API routes catalogued across 43 services. 545 documented gaps across 12 top-level domains.

The operator layer. Enterprise-wide AI platform with governance across eight departments — 23 Custom GPTs and 7 Agent SDK apps in production. Agents that compress compliance cycles, give any employee plain-English access to data, and automate multi-language KYB document processing.

Past · The Foundation

Chief Product Officer, Altery

The first ninety pages of the same book. Scaled a green-field crypto-and-card platform to eight-figure monthly revenue.

Built the product and platform foundation for a regulated fintech and crypto-infrastructure business. Led Visa and UnionPay principal membership work, in-house clearing, multi-currency cards (GBP/USD/EUR), Apple Pay / Google Pay tokenisation, crypto-to-fiat ramps (TON / USDT / NOT) under 60 seconds, paperless POA in 29+ countries, payout rails across 10+ markets via TerraPay.

Stood up the analytics and operating cadence from a blank page — Metabase migration, OKR cycle, seven cross-functional squads, demo days. CAC per transacting user fell roughly 2.5× over the period.

Past · The Enterprise Years

Chief Product Owner, ECOMMPAY

B2B onboarding from a quarter to a fortnight. AI-powered KYB before the LLM wave made it acceptable to say so out loud.

Cut KYB onboarding time from ninety days to twelve via process redesign and AI-powered document extraction. Owned solution design and GTM for AI-powered KYB and document-extraction tools across four squads. Closed multi-hundred-thousand-pound Tier-1 bank deals via demo-led enterprise sales cycles.

Past · The Public Square

Senior Product Manager, Moscow Exchange

A fifty-percent rip-and-replace of legacy infrastructure unlocked seven figures of annual savings.

Replaced fifty percent of legacy dependencies — unlocking £1.7 million in annual savings and a thirty-five percent drop-off cut. Rebuilt KYC/AML as modular, region-ready flows.

Past · The Bank Years

Head of Business Technologies, Bank Otkritie

A ten-figure IT portfolio, 230 engineers, 21 teams, and an SME lending book that nearly doubled in size.

Built and scaled an SME lending platform from ₽70 billion to ₽130 billion; cut origination time from fourteen days to under one via low-code orchestration. Deployed a hundred-plus RPA bots across SME onboarding and operations, optimising ninety-plus FTEs of process labour. Shipped AI-powered KYB with 92–94% OCR accuracy.

Oversaw a £100 million-plus IT portfolio across 21 teams and 230-plus engineers — CRM, onboarding, mobile, lending, and core systems. Prepared financial models and KPI projections for bank committees.

Earlier · The Apprenticeships

Sberbank · VTB · Develonica

Retail banking product, cross-bank corporate mortgage rollout, and a C#/.NET software-engineer origin.

Sberbank — Senior Product Owner, retail banking; SME lending and onboarding products. VTB — Program Manager; led cross-bank corporate mortgage rollout subsidising interest rates for 700K+ employees, driving £140M in portfolio growth. Modernised the national mortgage journey using maternity capital. Develonica — software-engineer origin in C#/.NET and SQL Server.

Section C · The Night Job

Four products, shipped solo.

Counted with find + wc -l. Verified on the 21st of May 2026. Read-access on request.

Project · iOS + Web

Cosmic Copilot

The same product shipped twice — native iOS and Next.js web — by one author.

Astrology and divination platform. Native iOS in Swift plus a Next.js web app, sharing a backend.

Project · Tax & Filing

QTax

A UK Self Assessment platform — NestJS monorepo, Next.js front-of-house, native iOS and React Native mobile.

Eleven repos: NestJS monorepo, Next.js front + v2 + web + landing, React Native mobile, Swift iOS, CRM, docs, partners. The control panel of a small filing firm, written by one operator.

Project · AI Visibility

AEO Platform

A multi-tenant SaaS for tracking brand visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek and Google AI.

Hallucination detection, competitive intelligence, citation tracking, and recommendations for getting cited by answer engines.

Project · Web + Pipeline

Prime Legacy Homes

A Next.js + Firebase real-estate site stitched to a Python apartment-parser pipeline.

Two repos, one pipeline, one front-of-house. End-to-end shipped.