Vladimir Lovtsov · CTO / Technology Director · @it_underside
A technology leader with engineering depth.
10 years in enterprise IT: Nestlé → Kerama Marazzi → VTB → T1 Group. I have worked at Innotech, part of T1 Group, since August 2021. Since December 2025, I have served as Director of Project Portfolio Management and IT Lead of a development cluster, accountable from strategy and backlog to production.
Current focus
What I am working on
INNOTECH · T1 GROUP
I lead a product portfolio and development cluster
Director of Project Portfolio Management · Cluster IT Lead
- A product portfolio and several full-cycle cross-functional teams
- Priorities, budgets, resources, timelines, risks, and cross-team dependencies
- Estimated portfolio impact of several billion rubles
since December 2025
DECISION ENGINE · VTB PROJECT
Led a banking product from team formation to production
SAS RTDM-class product · real-time and batch
- Took over the project in late September 2024 and formed the team by November
- Development started in December 2024; production launch followed in April 2025 — five months
- Tens of TB of data per day; average time to market for product changes is 14 days
since late September 2024
PERSONAL R&D
LAF and Planograph AI
Products for engineering management
- LAF connects the task queue, autonomous execution, verification, and budget control
- I use LAF in my own projects and am considering commercialization
- Planograph AI connects backlog, dependencies, and team capacity to delivery planning
in active use and development
Career stack
Three facets, one biography
Portfolio and product
I turn business needs into product strategy and a controlled plan for delivering change.
- Strategy, roadmaps, product and technical backlogs
- Budgets, resources, risks, and cross-team dependencies
- Joint prioritization with business and product owners
- Accountability from business need to production
Engineering leadership
I build the full engineering operating model and lead several full-cycle teams.
- Organization design, hiring, development, and rapid team formation
- Architecture, SDLC, CI/CD, releases, and operations
- Hands-on Scrum and Kanban; familiarity with PMBOK and SAFe principles
- Executive communication and decision advocacy
Technology and R&D
I retain engineering depth across high-load systems, Big Data, ML/AI, and my own engineering-management tools.
- Decision Engine: event-driven architecture and tens of TB per day
- Mirion: ETL prototypes, ML/AI models, and graph algorithms
- LAF: an engineering workflow with AI agents
- Planograph AI: capacity, dependency, and schedule planning for large teams
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- 12.2025 — nowInnotech (T1 Group) · VTB projectPersonalized lending product portfolioPortfolio Director · Development Cluster IT Lead
- 12.2024 — 11.2025Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB projectReal-time & Batch Decision EngineProject Director · IT Lead
- 09.2024 — 11.2024Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB projectDecision Engine team formationIT Lead
- 03.2023 — 09.2024Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB projectBig Data application servicesIT Lead
- 08.2021 — 02.2023Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB projectGraph platform and Mirion productData Analyst → Analytics Team Lead
- 09.2020 — 08.2021VTBRetail data products (entry into the VTB engagement)Lead / Full-Stack Data Analyst
- 06.2019 — 09.2020Kerama MarazziMDM, BI, data qualitySenior Data Quality Analyst
- 06.2017 — 07.2019Nestlé RussiaMaster data in sales, data back-officeData Back Office Manager · Financial Analyst
Engineering roots
AI builds on my work with data.
From a physical sensor to data
At Bauman University I studied electronics and nanoelectronics and worked on a MEMS-based gas-flow measurement problem. I explored neural error correction on a microcontroller. It did not enter the project, but my interest in connecting physics, data, and algorithms stayed.
Data quality and applied ML
At Kerama Marazzi I worked on data architecture and local ML experiments. Then came VTB data-product analytics: turning business questions into data and system requirements.
Graphs, NER, and ML infrastructure
At Mirion I prototyped ETL and ML/AI solutions, explored graph algorithms, and led analysts. Later, as IT Lead, I managed an area spanning graph and geo platforms, NER services, and an ML data-annotation platform.
AI inside working products
I build LAF for autonomous development, Planograph AI for planning, and a RAG knowledge assistant. I test ideas in my own projects, connecting models to APIs, data, validation, and operations.
Developing expertise in teams
Teaching grounded in engineering practice.
I want teams to solve the next problem without depending on me. That is why I build expert communities, develop courses, and give talks grounded in practical decisions.
Data Engineering
Curated the Data Engineering course at T1 Digital Academy, connecting the programme to the work of a data engineer.
Systems analysis
Restarted the course and worked on its structure and learning materials: the skills analysts need and how to build them.
Experts learning from one another
Initiated a community and recruited more than 20 senior experts. Together with other members, they resolved over 1,000 engineering cases by my estimate, sharing proven solutions across teams.