Vadzim Tashlikovich. IT expert with 20+ years experience in software design/ development/ tech project management. Main focus on: AI/ Fintech/ Blockchain.

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About me

Excited to create new unique software products in timely manner.
Love: traveling, hiking, hockey, history of ancient scandinavia, scale modeling, arts

Located in Gdańsk, Poland. Born in Belarus.

Expertise:

  • AI adoption for company and clients;
  • 4 courses instructor (35+ participants);
  • Cloud solution architecture (AWS/GCP);
  • AI-powered applications: agents/chat bots, local LLM's, RAG-based apps, custom DNN models;
  • Integration with 30+ systems;
  • Coordination of several international teams (40+ members), supervision of 4 PMs and multiple Tech Leads;
  • Startup launch from idea to execution, any complexity level.


Experience

FortySeven, Outsourcing/Investment | 2017 - present
Gdańsk, Poland | Minsk, Belarus

CTO, Technical Project Manager
System/solution architecture, technical and management audits for both internal and external projects. Acquiring new customers. Technical and delivery management.

SCAND, Outsourcing | 2002 - present
Gdańsk, Poland | Minsk, Belarus

Head of software development department: technical and resource management
Experience gained in the company: as a software developer, team lead, technical project & product manager, head of the department.

INKOMDATA, Product company | 2000 - 2002
Minsk, Belarus

Software engineer, Team lead
Development of ERP systems using Java. Leading the dev team, tasks management, code review.


Recent projects

1. Maps subscription platform for outdoor activities | 2026 - present

Achievements: created new version of architecture for SaaS with SSO for mobile and web applications. Migration to new version. Established SDD-driven SDLC.

2. Car Auctions aggregator | 2026 - present

Achievements: coordinated creation of architecture for lots aggregation with focus on fast search. Established SDD-driven SDLC.

3. Gaming progress ladder system | 2026

Achievements: built high-performant pipeline architecture with support of multiple tenants, launched into production. Established SDD-driven SDLC.

4. AI agents/AI assistant coding/Blockchain courses | 2025 - presentAI

Achievements: held 4 courses (5 sessions) for 35+ participants.

5. Competitor tracking agent for marketing | 2025 - presentAI

AI-powered solution for tracking, analysis, filterinng of competitors news/blog posts. Notification, summarisation.

6. Agentic platform for creation of AI-agents | 2025AI

No-code solution for creation, deployment and maintenance of AI-agents.

7. Real-estate AI-agent | 2025AI

Chat-based AI-agent for market trends, investing opportunities analysis, listings management, deep-research among several exclusive data-sources.

8. Knowledge base app | 2025 - presentAI

Achievements: RAG-powered knowledge management system with quick search by context among big knowledge database.

9. GenAI telegram bot | 2025 - presentAI

Achievements: designed and implemented a GenAI Telegram bot with a credit-based system, integrating payment processing. Deployed to production, maintenance.

10. Automatic sermons translations into 8 languages | 2025 - presentAI

Achievements: increased coverage of international listeners, increased quality of translations, partially automated translations in church, introduced new languages.

11. Openlane auction tracker bot | 2025

Achievements: helped to get new auctions faster which increased rate of winning.

12. Automatic source codes documentation with local AI models | 2025AI

Achievements: automatic documentation of closed 3100 source code files (Java/JS/TS) in 10 hours with $35 bugdet.

13. URL summary/reading Telegram bot | 2025AI

AI-powered bot for scraping, summarisation, text-to-speech conversion.

14. News scanning and reporting AI-agent | 2025AI

Achievements: drastically decreased time for news analysis.

15. Payment system | 2024 - 2026

Achievements: created architecture of international payment system backed up by hard currency with blockchain integration.

16. Play-To-Earn game marketplace | 2023 - presentAI

Achievements: successfully embedded my team into the big international blockchain project. Created PM processes. Gathered architecture requirements. Refactored architecture. Created a transition roadmap, coordinated the transition from legacy to the new architecture. Introduced smart spam-detection system.

17. LLM-based telegram bot | 2024AI

Achievements: created architecture of bot capable of extraction of key information out of user messages under high load, prototyped several approaches using ChatGPT/Claude/Llama solutions.

18. LLM-based proof of concept | 2023AI

Achievements: developed a PoC product capable of extracting valueable information from user requests in a free form, analyze dependencies and find matching people profiles using chatGPT integration and vectorized profiles matching algorithm.

19. Crypto file storage service | 2023

Achievements: developed the architecture for a cutting-edge startup project leveraging blockchain and IPFS technologies.

20. Crypto arbitrage bot | 2023

Achievements: gathered business requirements, managed a prototype creation, created architecture for the high-performant CEX/DEX trading solution, implemented the core service, helped to create solution that gains profit on cryptocurrency market.

21. National energy exchange platform | 2022 - 2025

Achievements: attracted the lead, managed to release 1st version in extremely short terms, created architecture of the solution.

22. Gamehotness | 2022 - 2024

Achievements: generated the idea, designed and implemented a data-driven service, fetching and analysis of data using Python.

23. P2E game start-up using Blockchain/NFT/Web3 | 2022

Achievements: created all management and delivery processes for a project from a completely new industry, made development controllable, estimated, predictable.

24. Fintech start-up architecture and processes design | 2022

Achievements: successfully consolidated the professional audit team; created a cross-region cloud architecture; created a full set of the recommendations in terms of creation of cross-region architecture and processes to fit PCI-DSS and banking regulations for several countries.

25. Fintech start-up full audit | 2022

Achievements: performed both management and architecture audit; created a list of recommendations to make development controllable, estimated, customized, without common design flaws for a Fintech industry; solved a startup crisis.

26. Startup in UK energy market | 2021

Achievements: gathered the business requirements, translated a business idea to the technical specification within a multi-step energy calculations formula; created a solution architecture; implemented several components of the solution; led the team to release POC in 2 months; managed to build a robust production-ready software.

27. Online bank | 2018 - present

Achievements: led the team to release MVP live in 8 months; developed a banking cloud architecture compatible with PCI-DSS, PSD2; implemented several components of the solution; successfully coordinated the international team.

28. ERP solution for UK’s energy market | 2019 - 2025

Achievements: led the team to release the required version within a limited budget; investigated the business functionality of the legacy system without any documentation and helped to build an effective solition; created solution architecture.

29. Cryptocurrency trading platform | 2019 - 2021

Achievements: solved a startup crisis, managed resources in extreme conditions.

30. Software solution for ski instructors management | 2020 - presentAI

Achievements: guided the project from tender to the release, created solution architecture including SSO and support chatbot, successfully worked with the fixed budget, have grown the management personnel.

31. Online banking platform | 2018 - present

Achievements: coordinated the release MVP version in 4 months, have grown the management personnel.


Challenges

Recent challenges completed:

  • Certified in 5 AI/ML courses completed to deepen expertise in the field, within a 2-month period
  • Conducted 4 courses for employees: Blockchain, Python, RAG applications and AI-agents
  • Fine-tuned open-source LLM
  • Comparison of several agent-frameworks in terms of functionality scope, performance, budget
  • Performed penetration test, security audit of the enterprise application
  • Customer acquisition, initiated a nation-level energy exchange project
  • Managed and helped to release NFT/Web3 marketplace in a new industry
  • Created a banking architecture using AWS services, optimal in terms of performance and a budget
  • Performed benchmarking of the real-case financial software solutions written in Node.js/Java/Python
  • Performed a management and technical audit of a start-up, created plans for the found flaws elimintation
  • Created a cross-region cloud architecture solution
  • Introduced a new technology stack into application, from POC to production
  • Investigated the technical aspects of implementation of Payment services Directive (PSD2) in Banking industry, introduced a list of improvements, controlled the implementation
  • Helped to bring a startup to the 2nd round of investments
  • Brought new IT-industry expertise for the company in a short term
  • Automated the reporting process

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science

Belarusian State University / Faculty of Applied Mathematics and Informatics

1996-2001, Belarus, Minsk

Arts School

1989-1993, Belarus, Zhodino


Certificates, courses and self-education:

Top Skills

The key ones:
  • Performance
  • Analytics and planning
  • Great communication
  • Responsibility
  • Leadership
  • Focusing
  • Presentation
  • Programming
Languages:
  • English - full working proficiency
  • Polish - limited working proficiency
  • German - beginner
  • Belarusian/Russian - native

Articles


Programming languages / Frameworks

Actual:

Others: React, PHP, Basic, Pascal, Assembler, Lisp, C/C++, ActionScript


Awards

  • FINALIST. The best website nomination in category “History, culture, arts”. Russia, Moscow, 2005
  • WINNER. The best content website nomination in category “Education”. Belarus, Minsk, 2006

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