Vladimir Lovtsov · CTO / Technology Director · @it_underside

I connect business needs, product decisions, and engineering systems.

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.

Vladimir Lovtsov — CTO and Technology Director

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 Dev Planning

Products for engineering management

  • LAF defines roles, stages, and quality controls for developing several products with AI agents
  • I use LAF in my own projects and am considering commercialization
  • Dev Planning turns a backlog into a delivery plan for a large team within minutes

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
  • Dev Planning: capacity, dependency, and schedule planning for large teams

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Full role history

[раскрыть] [свернуть] 8 ролей с 2016
  1. 12.2025 — now Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB project Personalized lending product portfolio Portfolio Director · Development Cluster IT Lead
  2. 12.2024 — 11.2025 Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB project Real-time & Batch Decision Engine Project Director · IT Lead
  3. 09.2024 — 11.2024 Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB project Decision Engine team formation IT Lead
  4. 03.2023 — 09.2024 Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB project Big Data application services IT Lead
  5. 08.2021 — 02.2023 Innotech (T1 Group) · VTB project Graph platform and Mirion product Data Analyst → Analytics Team Lead
  6. 09.2020 — 08.2021 VTB Retail data products (entry into the VTB engagement) Lead / Full-Stack Data Analyst
  7. 06.2019 — 09.2020 Kerama Marazzi MDM, BI, data quality Senior Data Quality Analyst
  8. 06.2017 — 07.2019 Nestlé Russia Master data in sales, data back-office Data Back Office Manager · Financial Analyst