Summary
Arkadiy Kraportov is a seasoned software architect and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience and 15 years in senior roles, currently serving as Chief Engineer driving AI adoption and LLM-powered developer tooling at CLSA in Tokyo. He blends hands-on development with architecture and team leadership, having designed and delivered cloud-native web and mobile platforms using React/React Native, Elixir/Phoenix, GraphQL, Kubernetes/OpenShift and strong zero-trust and encryption practices. His background spans finance, apparel, manufacturing and software, with notable delivery of client-facing research platforms, global CRM and analytics systems at Nomura, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. Arkadiy is comfortable moving monoliths to containerized microservices, introducing CI/CD and security-first designs, and evaluating emerging stacks like Istio, Calico and EKS for GDPR-sensitive environments. He combines deep legacy-system experience (Progress, Java, enterprise middleware) with modern cloud and AI toolchains, and is known for translating complex regulatory and business requirements into pragmatic, production-ready solutions. An engineer who still codes and prototypes, he uniquely pairs institutional finance domain knowledge with practical innovation in developer productivity and LLM-enabled workflows.
15 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Rybinsk State Academy of Aviation Technology.
English, Russian, Japanese