Andrei Popov
Advisory Board Member at BENEFLO
Belgrade, Central Serbia
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Popov is a seasoned technology and transformation leader with 17 years of experience building high-performing IT organisations across global banking and fintech. He has led large-scale digital and payments platforms at Citigroup and Raiffeisen, later scaling product and engineering teams as Managing Director at Paysend and now investing in and advising fintechs through Digital Space Ventures and BENEFLO. His strengths lie in turning complex financial systems into usable, compliant, and scalable products that move money and data across borders, while fostering agility and culture as catalysts for growth. Based in Belgrade and originally from Russia, he blends board-level governance experience with hands-on delivery, from CIO roles to startup advisory work. An understated detail: he pairs deep finance systems expertise with executive education in digital business transformation from IMD, positioning him to bridge legacy institutions and fast-moving fintech ventures.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BS Banking & Finance, BS Banking & Finance at Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation279BA Business Administration, BA Business Administration at Truman State UniversityExecutive learning Leading Digital Business Transformation, Executive learning Leading Digital Business Transformation at IMD
English, Russian, Polish
Github Skills (37)
itunes10
apple-music10
mp39
applescript9
mojo9
music9
currency-exchange-rates8
cli8
command-line8
text-editor8
modular8
chatgpt7
rust-lang7
hugo-theme7
google7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Ceesaxp/as-convert-russian
Mar 2015 - Apr 2021
This is an AppleScript application that performs a conversion of MP3 tags in Russian embedded in iTunes/Apple Music files that may appear "corrupted" on Mac. Fixes those strange hieroglyphics to proper Cyrillics.
Contributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 11 pushes in 6 years 2 months
corruptedmp3itunesmacosstrange
Ceesaxp/xe.com
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
Small utility to fetch xe.com exchange rates for a given pair and date
Contributions:3 releases, 8 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 2 months
golangexchangeratesexchange-ratescurrency
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