# Artem Letyushev Tech Project Manager Updated: 2026-10-24 Connecting engineering, teams and business. 7+ years. Fintech, telecom, dating. artemletyushev@gmail.com · [Telegram](https://t.me/artemletya) · [GitHub](https://github.com/letya999) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/artemletya) ## A manager with an engineering mindset. From Android development and my own studio to international products and multi-team management. Along the way, I have worked with mobile services, payments, corporate data, advertising and antifraud. Co-founded Curestry, a platform for debugging and evaluating AI agents, and the AI Engineers Guild community. I develop open-source tools, mentor managers, write and speak about development, AI and management. ## Results. ### Antifraud from scratch 9 services · 2.5× less fraud Led the creation of Twinby’s antifraud system: ML detection, device fingerprinting, automated moderation and liveness verification. Owned product priorities and coordinated Data Science, backend and analysts. ### CDP and personalised communications 10+ communication channels Led the creation of an audience segmentation and communications platform. A shared segment builder, campaign launches and analytics without bespoke development for each campaign. Brought the platform to the launch stage. ### Mobile products in international markets Mexico · India · Nigeria Released an international fintech holding’s mobile apps in three markets. Coordinated five teams from local requirements and payment flows through testing and release. Retention increased by 15%, conversion by 10%. ### A new department at MTS 5 product + 2 service teams Organised the LeSS-to-SAFe transition and launch of a seven-team department. Connected quarterly goals, cross-team dependencies and resource planning into a shared operating model. ### Corporate data catalogue YooMoney · Amundsen Initiated a metadata catalogue project, from analysts’ needs and source requirements to a prototype, demo and feedback. The aim was to make data easier to find and its relationships easier to understand. ### Scaling project delivery ITIS · team 5 → 18 Developed parallel delivery of mobile and web products across GovTech, digital health, city services and social apps. The team grew from 5 to 18, and project margins from 12% to 34%. ### My own studio from scratch Renewal · break-even in 2 months Progressed from Android developer to co-founder and project lead. Won corporate clients, built project teams and organised mobile and web service development. ## Work experience ### Twinby — Tech Project Manager 03.2025 — present Dating · matchmaking platform A dating platform with mobile apps and a web version. Worked with Data Science, Backend, systems analysis and advertising platform teams. Acted as Product Owner for antifraud. Antifraud and moderation; liveness verification; CDP and marketing communications; B2B advertising platform; CIS/global; internal analytics and automation tools. #### Achievements - Launched a nine-service antifraud system: ML detection, device fingerprinting, automated moderation and liveness. Fraud decreased by a factor of 2.5. - Brought the CDP to the launch stage. Aligned the product and technical scope for audience segmentation and communications across 10+ channels. - Organised the release of the CIS/global multitenant architecture, separating regional environments to meet regulatory and investor requirements. - Built the backend team and established regular releases. Lead time fell from 64 to 16 days. - Redesigned requirements preparation with docs-as-code, ADRs, architecture reviews and AI tools. Analysis preparation time decreased by 60%. #### Responsibilities - Antifraud product ownership: business needs, backlog priorities, success criteria, moderation and Data Science collaboration. - Delivery management: roadmaps, scope, resources, risks, releases and dependencies across four teams. - Systems analysis: API, microservice, data and integration requirements with analysts, developers and the architect. - B2B development: advertising platform customers, user problems, changes and priorities. - Delivery visibility: team metrics, CEO reporting, OPEX/CAPEX, escalations, incident reviews and management automation. ### Fintech holding — Project Manager · NDA 06.2023 — 03.2025 Fintech · international mobile products Mobile products and internal platforms at an international holding company. Led delivery for five teams, around 50 specialists: Android, iOS, Backend/DevOps, QA and analytics. Regional mobile apps; payment flows and balance updates; deep links and domain delivery; image-data storage; regulatory separation of data. #### Achievements - Released apps in Mexico, India and Nigeria. Retention increased by 15%; registration-to-deposit conversion increased by 10%. - Scaled the department from two to five teams. Four of the five team leads were promoted from within the department. - Increased stream throughput from four to approximately twelve major epics per quarter. - Accelerated release preparation: regression testing decreased from 4–5 to 2 days, and the release cycle shortened by 20%. - Coordinated the rollout of deep-link and domain-delivery services. CRM managers’ workload decreased by 7%. #### Responsibilities - End-to-end mobile development: business requirements, scope estimates, testing, publication and subsequent changes. - Coordinating platform dependencies: payments, authentication, infrastructure, CRM and shared holding-company services. - Stream backlog management: product initiatives, technical debt, infrastructure work and process improvements. - Leadership development: hiring, onboarding, regular 1:1s, feedback and growth plans for team leads and managers. - Cross-team initiatives: temporary working groups, architecture changes and separation of regulated and unregulated data. ### MTS — Scrum Master / Agile Coach 01.2022 — 06.2023 Telecom · point-of-sale services and franchising MTS Kassa and MTS Franchise: business, e-commerce and telecom products. Worked at team, product-area and cross-team management levels. LeSS → SAFe transition; launch of a seven-team department; quarterly planning; Agile guild; process-improvement system. #### Achievements - Organised the LeSS-to-SAFe transition at the digital transformation office’s request: five cross-functional and two service teams. - Improved quarterly plan completion by 15% through dependency management and collaboration with adjacent streams. - Launched an Agile guild to share practices and develop management skills. - Built an improvement-management system: a shared backlog, RICE prioritisation, hypotheses, validation criteria and work-in-progress limits. - Within a year, expanded from Scrum Master to Agile Coach, moving from team support to organisational change. #### Responsibilities - Stream-level planning: quarterly objectives, dependencies, resources and alignment with adjacent areas. - Developing team practices: refinement, planning, reviews, retrospectives, goals and blocker resolution. - Product Owner support: backlog quality, prioritisation, customer feedback and connecting work to product goals. - Improving delivery quality: defect triage, release processes, flow metrics and responsibility allocation. - Working with leaders on organisational design, leadership development, resources, payroll and P&L. ### YooMoney — Delivery Manager 03.2021 — 01.2022 Fintech · electronic payments Fintech, electronic payments and corporate analytics. Supported BI/Data Engineering teams and their collaboration with business stakeholders. Corporate data warehouse; Amundsen metadata catalogue; BI reporting; requirements for a unified delivery-metrics dashboard. #### Achievements - Brought delivery of agreed quarterly commitments to 100% of business stakeholders’ expectations. - Coordinated roughly 90 business and technical participants, reducing friction in approvals and task handovers. - Initiated a metadata catalogue project. Organised an Amundsen prototype, demonstration and user feedback collection. - Developed a task-definition standard covering purpose, context, inputs, expected outcomes and acceptance criteria. - Designed the delivery analytics project: requirements for Jira data collection, metric calculation and Power BI reporting. #### Responsibilities - Demand management: business requests, requirements clarification and shared-backlog prioritisation. - Organising BI/Data Engineering work: planning, flow, blockers and cross-team dependencies. - Stakeholder communications: timelines, scope, status updates, changes and escalations. - Internal platform development: business cases, project charters, requirements, demos and feedback. - Delivery analysis: throughput, lead time, work in progress, work-item age and evidence for forecasting. ### Itis Team — Project Manager 03.2020 — 03.2021 IT outsourcing · mobile and web development Custom mobile and web development. Managed five to nine concurrent projects and contributed to team growth and the studio’s project economics. Beregi Figuru; Active Friends; Active Citizen; telemedicine; waste collection and plastic tracking; apps for entrepreneurs and industry reporting. #### Achievements - Increased project margins from 12% to 34% through automation and reusable software components. - Contributed to a threefold increase in company revenue, including growth in average project value. - Expanded the team from 5 to 18 people: developers, QA, designers and analysts. - Increased team throughput from 7 to 16 tasks per week by reorganising work. - Integrated QA into delivery: task and release checks, collaboration between testing and development, and defect management. #### Responsibilities - Project portfolio management: priorities, schedules, specialist capacity and dependencies between engagements. - Discovery and presale: customer needs, scope estimates, constraints, MVP scope and commercial agreements. - Requirements and design: user journeys, functional documentation, interfaces and API integrations. - Delivery organisation: Kanban, regular reviews, retrospectives, testing and acceptance. - Studio development: hiring, project documentation, Kaiten, Notion and Deskle, and project economics. ### Renewal Studio — Co-founder · Android Developer → Project Manager 2019 — 2020 Software development · project studio My own mobile and web development studio. Started with Android apps, then took responsibility for customers, teams and business operations. GIS app with a map and AR markers; tourism service; ski resort and concert hall apps; social-media promotion web service; AR-mask research. #### Achievements - Brought the studio to break-even in two months. - Won corporate clients, increasing project budgets by a factor of 3–4. - Built three mobile and web development project teams. - Established studio operations: roles, planning, change management and a transition to Scrum. - Moved from development into project leadership while retaining hands-on Android, interface design and data experience. #### Responsibilities - Sales and presale: finding customers, understanding needs, estimating projects and agreeing terms. - Delivery management: assigning work to staff and external teams, tracking deadlines and acceptance. - Business analysis: app functionality, user scenarios and interface design. - Change management: defects, new requirements, scope adjustments and schedule updates. - Technical and operational work: Android with Java, databases, Jira, Confluence and Slack. ## Processes Gantt · WBS · Scrum · Kanban · Agile · SAFe · LeSS · Decomposition · Roadmap · Risks · OKR · KPI · Delivery · Backlog · P&L · OPEX / CAPEX · Hiring · Flow · Releases · Budgets · SLA · FinOps · Forecast · PMBoK · P3.express · RTE · Lead Time · Cycle Time · Capacity · Stakeholders · Facilitation · Coaching · Portfolio · Prioritization · AI-native SDLC · Performance Review · Sprint Planning · Sprint Review · Retrospective · Daily Scrum · PI Planning · System Demo · Release Train · Dependency Mapping · Risk Register · RAID · Critical Path · WIP Limits · Throughput · Velocity · Takt Time · Service Level Expectation · Monte Carlo · Incident Management · Change Management · RACI · Decision Log · Stakeholder Map · Resource Planning · Budget Forecast · Team Topologies · Team Health · Continuous Improvement · Value Stream Mapping I make multi-team work manageable: clear priorities, aligned dependencies, realistic commitments and timely feedback. ### Areas of work Project and Delivery Management, launching teams and departments, portfolio management, organisational change, leadership development, releases, quality and incident management. ### Project examples MTS: LeSS → SAFe transition and a new department of five product and two service teams. International holding: scaling a mobile stream to five teams, developing team leads and shortening regression testing. Twinby: regular backend releases, systems analysis, architecture reviews and engineering metrics. YooMoney: business demand management and BI/Data Engineering coordination. ITIS and Renewal: multi-project delivery, hiring, QA, project economics and client relationships. ### Methods and tools Scrum, Kanban, LeSS, SAFe and Nexus; quarterly planning, risk and dependency management, facilitation, 1:1s and leadership development. To improve flow, I use WIP limits, classes of service, lead time, cycle time, throughput and blocker analysis. For delivery quality: readiness and acceptance criteria, defect triage, release policies and incident reviews. Tools: Jira, Confluence, Kaiten, YouTrack, Notion, Miro, GitLab, Excel/Google Sheets and Power BI. ### People I worked with Development teams and team leads, PMs and POs, department heads, CEOs, CTOs and CPOs, HR, finance, sales, support, external contractors and corporate clients. ### Education and certifications SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer; Scrum.org PSM I; ICAgile: Agile Coaching, Agile Team Facilitation, Agile Fundamentals; Kanban University: System Design, System Improvement. ## Engineering React · Rust · Python · TypeScript · Next.js · FastAPI · LangGraph · RAG · API · SQL · ADR · MCP · DevOps · CI/CD · Docker · Git · Data Engineering · MS SQL · Data Lake · Power BI · Airflow · Angular · Flutter · Dart · Android · PostgreSQL · ClickHouse · ETL / ELT · DataLens · Dagster · Go · Tauri · Observability · Microservices · AI Agents · JavaScript · Node.js · Astro · Three.js · WebGL · HTML · CSS · Vite · Playwright · REST · GraphQL · OpenAPI · WebSocket · JSON · DAX · Power Query · T-SQL · Data Warehouse · Data Pipelines · ETL · ELT · Data Modeling · Star Schema · OLAP · GitHub Actions · Linux · Kotlin · Gradle · Android SDK I started in Android development. I can investigate APIs, data models and architectural dependencies, discuss technical trade-offs and build a prototype to test an idea. ### Areas of work Mobile and web development, backend and microservices, payment integrations, corporate data warehouses, ETL/ELT, ML and computer vision, LLMs and AI agents. ### Project examples Twinby antifraud: ML detection, moderation, verification and device signals. CDP/MQOS: segmentation, campaign orchestration, event streams and analytics. CIS/global: separating regional application, data and infrastructure environments. Amundsen at YooMoney: corporate data discovery, metadata and relationships between sources. Mobile infrastructure: deep links, domain delivery, balance updates and image-data handling. Personal tools: AI-STP, agent skills and MCP, Text-to-SQL prototypes and management analytics automation. ### Technologies and tools Hands-on experience: Java and Android, Python, SQL, Git, working with APIs, AI agents and automation. Technology context of projects: Go, Kotlin, Swift, Flutter, JavaScript/TypeScript, Node.js, React, Angular and .NET; ClickHouse, CockroachDB, MSSQL, Redis, Kafka and NATS; DWH, ETL/ELT, CI/CD. Design and documentation: API contracts, Swagger/OpenAPI, C4 diagrams, ADRs, GitLab, docs-as-code, architecture reviews and acceptance criteria. ### People I worked with Backend, frontend and mobile developers, architects, systems analysts, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, ML Engineers, DevOps, QA and information security specialists. ### Background My technical foundation is Android development, data work and my own software projects. I gained further practice in mobile products, platforms and AI tools. ## Product Fintech · HealthTech · Dating · Telecom · CustDev · CJM · CDP · Antifraud · Retention · Conversion · Hypotheses · Metrics · A/B · Growth · NPS · UX · Product Discovery · JTBD · MVP · Unit Economics · Monetization · Funnels · Cohorts · Activation · Churn · LTV · CAC · Segmentation · North Star · Go-to-Market · Experimentation · Product Analytics · AppMetrica · User Research · User Interviews · Usability Tests · Funnel Analysis · AARRR · LTV / CAC · ARPU · DAU / MAU · Retention Cohorts · Onboarding · Pricing · Subscription · Payments · Fraud Detection · Recommendations · CRM · Push Campaigns · Journey Mapping · Product Strategy · Value Proposition · Opportunity Mapping · RICE · ICE · Kano · HEART · Feature Adoption · Experiment Design · Product-Market Fit · Market Research · Customer Segments · Product Roadmap I start with user needs and business goals. I conduct research, formulate hypotheses, model the economics and determine what to build first. ### Domains and areas AdTech and MarTech: advertising platforms, audience segmentation, CDP, campaigns and personalised communications. Dating and Trust & Safety: dating services, antifraud, verification, moderation and abuse prevention. FinTech, Crypto and Betting: payments, balances, mobile products, user acquisition and retention in international markets. Telecom, e-commerce and B2B: MTS products, digital business services, partner and corporate sales. GovTech and city services: citizen requests, industry apps, interactions between residents, organisations and government bodies. DeepTech, AI and Data: AgentOps, ML services, analytics platforms, corporate data and developer tools. ### Product examples Twinby: antifraud, advertising platform, and a segmentation and communications platform. International holding: mobile apps for Mexico, India and Nigeria. Curestry: a platform for debugging, quality evaluation and optimisation of AI agents. Active Citizen: resident requests, voting and tracking request resolution. Beregi Figuru: a mobile service for personal goals, nutrition and progress tracking. ### Methods and tools I conduct CustDev and problem interviews, build CJMs and examine user scenarios and competing products. I develop value propositions, model unit economics, define MVPs and set priorities. I work with funnels, conversion, retention, cohorts, CAC and LTV. Tools: Miro, Figma, Google Sheets and Excel; SQL, Power BI, DataLens, AppMetrica and Google Analytics. ### People I worked with Product Managers and Product Owners, UX/UI designers, researchers, product and business analysts, marketers, CRM teams, sales, B2B clients and founders. ### Education Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University · Innovation: innovative software product management. A product manager by education. ## Writing and projects [Habr](https://habr.com/ru/users/Renewal_Studio/) · [vc.ru](https://vc.ru/id458029) · [ai-stp](https://github.com/letya999/ai-stp) · [job_ftch](https://github.com/letya999/job_ftch)