Artur Khanin is a pragmatic CTO with 10 years of engineering experience who now leads product and engineering strategy at Exactly.ai, building an AI platform for brand-consistent visual content at scale. He combines a hands-on background shipping end-to-end systems with leadership that optimizes teams and architecture for production readiness and growth. Prior roles span startups and vendor work—including driving 10x throughput gains, cutting onboarding from days to minutes for the Apache Beam Playground, and contributing fixes to the Apache Beam project—demonstrating a strong focus on performance, maintainability, and developer experience. He is passionate about the intersection of AI and creative industries and believes the best technology disappears into simple, delightful products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Kazan State University
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:300 reviews, 17 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Artur contributed to the Apache Beam project by fixing bugs related to SSL configuration and nullable coder casting within the Java examples. They also implemented and tested a `GetCompileOutput` functionality for the backend server component. Furthermore, the user replaced a logging library, indicating a focus on code maintainability and performance. Finally, they updated the privacy policy and incorporated a case study, demonstrating contributions spanning both backend and website development.
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Artur Khanin - Chief Technology Officer at exactly.ai