Summary
Eduard Schikurski is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 11 years of experience building and scaling platforms for finance, insurance and climate tech startups. As Co-Founder & CTO of Warden AI he now focuses on continuous auditing for trustworthy AI, drawing on hands-on experience designing resilient systems and micro-frontend architectures at Monzo and product-grade platforms at Abatable. He combines strategic engineering leadership—hiring, career frameworks and incident processes—with frequent hands-on contributions across full stacks, from backend APIs to web and accessibility improvements. Comfortable navigating regulated environments, he has repeatedly delivered integrations with complex external systems (banking, retail APIs and risk/fraud platforms) and shipped pragmatic ML-assisted workflows. Colleagues would note his knack for turning operational pain points into scalable platform features and for bridging product, compliance and engineering priorities.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc. Business Information Systems, B.Sc. Business Information Systems at Paderborn University
Non-degree program International Business and Technology Management, Non-degree program International Business and Technology Management at LUT University
M.Sc. IT-Management and Information Systems, M.Sc. IT-Management and Information Systems at Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft (FHDW)
Russian, English, German