Work

Twelve years of receipts.

Six years building AI products across ML infrastructure and GenAI. Eight years before that investing other people’s money and answering for it. The order matters: I learned to read a P&L before I learned to read a kernel.

Experience

May 2026 — now

GoogleSenior Product Manager — Cloud TPU

Back on AI infrastructure: the compute layer that decides what every model above it is allowed to be. Same machines, a very different industry around them.

2025 — now

Happyverse.AIFounder

I started the product and research lab behind Happyverse Confidants — real-time video agents that represent a person when that person cannot be in the room. Pre-seed funded by Village Global and Jeff Dean. I founded it and still own the vision; I am no longer running it day to day.

  • Built and hosted the AGI Interface Summit in San Francisco, November 2025.
  • Shipped a real-time digital-human product used for brand, sales, and commemorative digital twins.
  • Designed HIPERFLOW, the nine-dial life-design framework behind the product.
2024 — 2025

EtchedAI Product Manager, Member of Technical Staff

A Series A company building transformer-only inference silicon aimed at 10x+ over Nvidia GPUs.

  • Ran a one-month sprint with 30+ engineers to find and clear hardware and software bugs ahead of the Sohu tapeout.
  • Ran the market study and benchmarking that shaped requirements for the next-generation chip.
  • Orchestrated an eight-figure deal with a leading European cloud provider.
2019; 2020 — 2024

GoogleSenior Product Manager — Head of Growth & Strategy, Cloud TPU

Growth, strategy, and go-to-market for the supercomputers Google uses to train and serve large models.

  • Led the commercial launches of Cloud TPU v4 Pods (2022), v5e (2023), v5p (2023) and Trillium (2024).
  • Co-authored Google’s ML infrastructure investment strategy and the financial model behind billions in capex.
  • Co-led the Cloud TPU VM architecture launch that made the machines usable by ordinary researchers.
  • Built the go-to-market motion behind billions in customer commitments.
  • Ran GenAI projects for Beyond 12, Opportunity@Work and IDinsight through the Google.org accelerator, and headlined the Google.org Impact Summit.
  • Two promotions and 70+ peer bonuses, including from Chief AI Scientist Jeff Dean.
2020

Pomegranate VCSummer Vice President, Consumer Tech

Late-stage fund. Structured secondary deals in consumer internet, including Calm and Notion.

2012 — 2018

SistemaInvestment Director, Consumer Goods & Retail

The largest investment fund in Eastern Europe by AUM. I owned Detsky Mir, its children’s-goods retailer, end to end.

  • Led the $355M IPO and a $150M fundraising round, running the deal across C-level executives, global banks and law firms.
  • Supervised the turnaround from a loss-making asset to a profitable, IPO-ready market leader — roughly fivefold equity value growth from 2012 to 2018.
2010 — 2012

ING · VTB CapitalInvestment Banking Analyst

M&A and IPO work across retail, industrial engineering, healthcare and TMT.

Education & credentials

Georgia TechMSc coursework, Computer Science — ML & HCI. Dropped out; kept the knowledge.2024 — 2026
Stanford GSB · Doerr School of SustainabilityMBA / MS2018 — 2020
CFA InstituteChartered Financial Analyst2016 — 2018
MGIMO University, MoscowBA, Economics & International Relations — top of class, gold medal2007 — 2011

Angel investments