Summary
Andrei Laperie is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over 20 years of experience building open-source, cloud-native, and AI-driven products and communities. He has led and scaled distributed engineering teams at Nokia and Intel, upstreaming connectivity frameworks adopted by Ubuntu/GNOME and driving Zephyr OS connectivity into industry use. As a founder and CTO he launched a GenAI SaaS on AWS to 10K+ MAU and built robust evaluation pipelines and agentic prototypes using LangChain, vector DBs and MLX. He also founded Proconic and directed Loupedeck’s SDK and marketplace strategy, seeding a permissively licensed plugin ecosystem that catalyzed third-party adoption. Known for concise async communication and an upstream-first approach, he bridges deep Linux and RTOS technical expertise with pragmatic product and developer-ecosystem strategies. Recently strengthened by a Digital MBA for Technology Leaders, he combines hands-on engineering with measurable business and organizational outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State Electrotechnical University "LETI"
N30
English, Russian, Finnish, German