Konstantin Komarov — Staff/Head of Engineering

Highlights

Selected Wins & Impact

AI Insights Co-Pilot for Advertising (RAG)

Led concept→live of a vector-search assistant across Amazon Ads & sales data; cut analyst turnaround from days to minutes and enabled self-serve insights.

Agency-Grade Data & Content Pipelines

Productionized Amazon SP-API/Ads ingestions with governance, alerting and SLAs; improved reliability and reduced manual ops.

Innovation COE Lite

Created AI intake/evaluation/go-live checklists, human QA gates, and trainings that drove org-wide adoption with safety.

Pitch Differentiation

Packaged prototypes and cost-savings benchmarks into new-business decks; collaborated on SOW language and staffing models to protect margin.

Sales & Pitch Enablement Production & PM Excellence AI & Innovation Ops (RAG, eval) R&D Micro-squads Benchmarking Value Risk & Compliance

Career

Experience

Senior Software Architect (AI & Data) · Straight Up Growth

Sep 2023 — Present · San Diego, CA

Functional lead for AI initiatives; translated briefs into AI-enabled production plans.
Shipped a retrieval-augmented insights assistant (OpenAI + vector store); defined evaluation, rollout, and training.
Integrated Amazon Ads & SP-API at scale; added alerts, retries, cost controls, and improved time-to-insight.

CTO & Senior Software Architect · DineSafe / IWasPoisoned (YC)

Nov 2019 — Sep 2023 · Remote

Owned multi-client delivery across martech/data products; scoped, resourced, ensured production quality.
Built microservice/serverless architectures on AWS; reduced infra cost and increased deployment velocity with CI/CD + observability.
Supported new-business with technical treatments, prototypes and delivery plans; negotiated timelines and risks.

Lead Software Engineer · Innovecs

Mar 2014 — Nov 2019 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Directed cross-functional teams delivering enterprise web/data solutions; instituted code quality gates and performance budgets.
Designed resilient APIs and integrations; improved reliability and reduced incidents via SRE practices.

Software Engineer · PT ZT Skarbnica

Aug 2008 — Mar 2014 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Built ERP for jewelry retail; automated core workflows and reporting alongside stakeholders.

Software Engineer · IVK Soft

Sep 2006 — Aug 2008 · Kyiv, Ukraine

Built ERP modules and internal portals; partnered with business stakeholders to automate core workflows and improve reporting.

Capabilities

Skills & Tooling

SaaS Architecture Full-Stack (Laravel, Vue, Node, Python) AI Integration (OpenAI/Azure, LLMs) Data Eng (ETL, Redshift/MySQL, SQL) DevOps (AWS, Docker, CI/CD) Analytics & Dashboards Amazon Ads / E-commerce Tech Jira/Confluence, GitHub, Figma

Let’s talk

Contact

Email

monoteos@gmail.com

Phone

+1 (949) 795-1437

/konstantin-komarov