Vadim Vladymtsev

About

Engineer and researcher with experience in developing complex IT solutions for universities and companies: system architecture, data analysis, AI implementation, and process automation. Participated in the creation and development of educational IT systems and training teams in algorithmic programming.

Key Competencies

• LLM/RAG systems, document processing (PDF/DOC/HTML), OCR
• Python (FastAPI), Elasticsearch, Requests, BeautifulSoup
• Web and mobile applications: .NET MVC, Kotlin, Android
• Integrations, ETL, project architecture, DevOps basics

Experience

STACKLEVEL GROUP — Deputy Director for Research and Development (2025 — present)

• Leading the development of RAG platform Project Century for secure LLM integration into business and government organizations.
• Prototype of a recommendation system based on LLM for e-commerce (personalized product cards; FastAPI, prompt engineering).
• Information extraction and summary generation system for heterogeneous documents using Elasticsearch and LLM (RAG approach, OCR).
• LLM bot for financial analytics of companies based on open APIs.
• Tech audit of FinTech backend application (Java Spring, Apache), database and ETL optimization.
• Building R&D from zero: target architecture, hiring plan, competency map, onboarding, and repeatable research filter (discovery → prioritization → prototyping → pilots → production with OKRs and quarterly roadmaps).
• Production RAG at scale: hybrid search (BM25 + dense), query reformulation and routing, knowledge normalization/enrichment, restrictions, and evaluation (offline metrics + A/B).
• MLOps/LLMOps that can be audited: experiment and artifact tracking, model promotion through environments, regression checks, performance budgets, drift monitoring, incident response instructions.
• Security by design: environment segmentation, secret management, RBAC/ABAC, PII control, audit logging, release checkpoints, and vendor/compliance checks.

Focus: AI implementation without model retraining, architecture and integration.

Earlier

BSUIR — Lead Software Developer, Deputy Head of the Department of Informatics / Senior Lecturer (2019 — 2025)

• Lead Software Developer, Deputy Head of the Department of Informatics / Senior Lecturer (2019 — 2025): leading a team of .NET application developers for automating the university application and enrollment process, assembling a team of junior and middle developers, conducting code reviews and functionality reviews, implementing GitLab and Agile, writing project documentation, implementing PI planning, updating the platform to .NET Framework 4.8, bringing the codebase to a single style (4 projects), updating all components from 2017 versions to the latest, implementing briefings for annual audits of application automation processes, implementing online algorithms, conducting security audits of components, developing a new database architecture, working with the network technology team to implement a new network in accordance with the order of the Operational Analytical Center under the President of the Republic of Belarus, developing scripts for rapid training of trainee specialists.
• Deputy Head of the Department of Informatics / Assistant Professor (2021 — 2023): updating the curriculum for first-year students, introducing updated course work topics and supervising practice for first-year students, organizing work with faculty students, leading the "Olympiad School" BSUIR, restarting the "BIT-Cup" and "BSUIR Open" olympiads, launching the individual olympiad "Computer Science Cup".
• Product Owner (2022 — 2025): system analyst and head of development teams for MVPs for external and internal customers, PI Planning manager.
• Student Project Development Manager (2018 — 2021): working on projects in the field of career guidance and development, implementing a new format for open house days, updating the learning process for the faculty's student activists, introducing kanban, agile, and briefs for projects, launching the "TechWeek" project where IT companies could closely communicate with students for a week, participating in the implementation of Google Developer Club at BSUIR, organizing the "100 ideas for Belarus" competition, holding a number of meetings between university leadership and student groups, conducting cyber tournaments in Counter-Strike and Dota 2, responsible for volunteer work at the II European Games in Minsk, organizing the work of the "Labor Affairs Staff" to accelerate job searches for students during holidays and permanently.
• Software Engineer (2020 — 2021): participating in the development and technical implementation of a mobile application that became part of a large-scale information system with an audience of over 1 million users, developing an Android application from scratch in Kotlin, implementing architecture, UI, network interaction and local data management, integrating with backend through REST API, participating in API interface design together with the server team, implementing architectural patterns (MVVM), state management and navigation, participating in system analysis and technical product design, testing functionality, reproducing and fixing bugs, working to improve stability, preparing releases and publishing the application in Google Play, passing checks and updates, interacting with iOS, backend and frontend developers for logic synchronization and unified UX.
• Software Developer (2019 — 2020): developing educational games.

Teach IT — Co-Founder and Business Development Manager (2021 — 2023)

• Planning and implementation of company development projects
• Budget planning and audit
• Development of marketing projects
• Development and review of educational programs
• Control of the quality of the educational process
• Management of the teaching team

iTechArt Group — Students lab coordinator (2021 — 2021)

• Organization and support of student internships, including adaptation of participants and interaction with company teams;
• Participation in the development of HR brand strategy: creating a brand book, planning events to strengthen the employer image;
• Conducting campus events and organizing company participation in conferences to attract young talents.

Projects

• Project Century — RAG platform with support for various LLMs, integration with corporate systems, secure contextual exchange. Technologies: Python, FastAPI, ChromaDB, Docker, PostgreSQL. Project is in active development with first results in 2025.
• LLM-based e-commerce personalization: dynamic hints and product cards to reduce support load and increase conversion.
• Document-centric RAG system: search, extraction and summarization for arrays of PDF/DOC/HTML/XML.
• Financial analytics bot: automatic conclusions on company metrics, exchange rates and white papers.
• Automated application and enrollment system BSUIR: online admission, flexible exam formats, status tracking.
• MedTech life monitoring: patented algorithm for measuring heart rate and analytics.
• Vehicle monitoring system: secure telemetry storage and efficiency dashboards.

Education

• BSUIR — Master's, Information Systems and Technologies (2023 - 2026)
• BSUIR — Bachelor's, Computer Science and Programming Technology (2017 — 2021)

Awards

• Thank you note for teaching at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computer Systems and Networks, BSUIR Minsk (2023)

Volunteer Experience

ICPC Coach — Leading team preparation for programming olympiads

• BSUIR Open — former director of the championship
• Computer Science Cup — former director of the olympiad
• BIT-Cup — former director of the olympiad
• Former head of the Olympiad School BSUIR
• Young Scientist BSUIR, researcher at the Belarusian Republican Foundation for Fundamental Research
• Developer of the C++ course on stepik

Languages

• Russian — C2
• Belarusian — C2
• English — C2

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