Summary
Evgeny Protopopov is a hands-on Chief Technology Officer with over 20 years of experience building and operating resilient, high-performance platforms across fintech and FMCG. He has led global IT and engineering teams through fast product launches, large-scale migrations, and continuous 24x7 operations, with deep expertise in trading platforms, cloud-native architectures, and security. Evgeny combines practical, metrics-driven decision making with strong stakeholder and customer engagement, prioritizing solutions that deliver measurable financial impact. His background ranges from designing global data center strategies at JTI to scaling MT4/MT5 and .NET/Next.js ecosystems for trading businesses, often improving uptime, performance, and cost-efficiency. Known for a pragmatic leadership style, he stays technically involved to earn teams’ trust and solve real-world problems rather than adhere to dogma. Based in Limassol, Cyprus, he brings a rare mix of operational rigor and product-minded innovation tailored to emerging markets like Africa.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Baltic State Technical University "VOENMEH" named after D.F. Ustinov
English, Russian, French, Greek