Summary
Konstantin Krestnikov is an AI and NLP leader with 12 years of experience building production-grade conversational systems, robotics R&D, and high-load backend architectures. Currently a Managing Director at Sberbank, he combines hands-on ML engineering with strategic product leadership to integrate cutting-edge AI into banking. He previously led R&D and CTO roles at Cubic Robotics and was Head of AI at The Coach, where he designed a chatbot engine from scratch and scaled the product to paying users. His technical breadth spans LLMs, telephony-integrated voice bots, microservices on AWS/Kubernetes, and high-concurrency Java systems. Konstantin also pursues research into mind and consciousness, bringing an unusual blend of philosophical curiosity to practical AI deployment. Based in Russia, he is an AI agents developer who bridges research, engineering, and business impact.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
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Engineer's degree, Applied Mathematics, Engineer's degree, Applied Mathematics at Moscow Power Engineering Institute
English, Russian