Summary
Andrew Kulakov is a results-driven engineering leader with 15 years of experience building software organizations from zero to scale across Europe, having grown Dualboot Partners’ region to 150 people and managed full regional P&L. He combines hands-on product engineering (Ruby/Rails background and early GitLab contributions) with practical AI-in-production expertise—authoring an AI reverse-engineering product (3PO), an AI presales-to-prototype framework, and a company-wide training curriculum used by hundreds of engineers. Known for crisis execution, he relocated ~70 engineers across four countries in 90 days with no layoffs, and for measuring what actually moves the needle in AI adoption rather than chasing demos. Based in Belgrade, he’s a Cursor power user and prolific teacher who focuses on human-in-the-loop design, cost/margin models for AI delivery, and the operational realities of deploying AI at scale.
15 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems and Technologies, Specialist degree, Information Systems and Technologies, Specialist degree at Ulyanovsk State Technical University
English, Russian