Summary
Andrey Khalzov is a seasoned engineering leader and VP of Engineering based in Vancouver with 12+ years of leadership experience in fintech and 18 years of hands-on Java/Kotlin development, including Android. He has built mobile engineering organizations from scratch, led major UI redesigns and unified mobile/web experiences for digital banking platforms serving US credit unions, and currently oversees a 100+ engineer globally distributed organization. Andrey blends pragmatic vision with metrics-driven execution—improving developer productivity, integrating AI into the dev lifecycle, and implementing QA strategies to enable continuous delivery. He is a hands-on architect who still contributes to technical decisions, DevOps, and tricky release troubleshooting, and has a track record of mentoring managers through rapid change with candor and compassion. An early experimenter in mobile R&D (Wear, Glass, NFC, Assistant), he brings both product instincts and deep implementation experience to scaling engineering teams.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Liceum 19
Master's degree (evaluated by WES), Computer Science, Master's degree (evaluated by WES), Computer Science at Samara State Aerospace University