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Andrey RomanovskiyAR

Andrey Romanovskiy

Chief Technology Officer

€1,720/day
Dubai, AE
8-15 years
IT Strategy
IT Architecture
artificial intelligence
Team management
Digital Transformation

Average response time: 1 hour

About Andrey

Hands-on CTO with 8+ years scaling tech orgs from startup to 200+ engineers. Spent 6+ years at Yandex / Yango Group, building the largest e-commerce, delivery, and mobility solutions in the CIS region — shipping products from zero to tens of millions of DAU, executing M&A integrations, and taking release cycles from weekly to daily at 99.9%+ uptime. Also built international fintech and edtech ventures.

Currently based in the UAE, serving as a fractional CTO at Fortis (early-stage fintech). I specialise in architecture, team building, delivery processes, and AI integrations.
E-commerce
Banking and Financial Services
Consulting and Audits
Digital and IT Services

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Russian

    Native or bilingual

Can work on-site
Dubai (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Fortis
    Chief Technology Officer
    September 2025 - Today (9 months)
    United Arab Emirates
    CTO & Co-Founder of Fin-Tech startup providing SaaS Acquiring Platfor and POS solutions in MENA region
  • Yandex.Lavka
    Head of Product Development Department
    January 2024 - November 2025 (1 year and 10 months)
    – Restructured or built from scratch 15+ engineering teams. – Implemented flexible methodologies and development processes, reducing time to market by more than 20% – Built and executed tech strategy of engineering department, accelerating user application by more than 50%, reducing the release time of the web application by 17 hours (over the year from one release per week to one
    release per day) and the release time of backends to dozens per day with an uptime of 99.97 – The team's impact on the business: earned 8+% GMV in core business + launched several new products
  • Yandex Eats
    Head of Logistics & NewBiz Tech dept.
    July 2022 - March 2024 (1 year and 8 months)
    Moscow, Russia
    Managing two independent engineering departments (each up to ~100 employees) in a decentralized organization: Logistics and New Businesses.
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Education

  • Bachelor of Science
    Southern Federal University
    2019
    Bachelor of Science
  • Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software
    freeCodeCamp
    2018
    Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software

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