Sergey Cherepanov is a hands-on CTO with 11 years of experience building large-scale systems across education, finance, and logistics, currently leading technology at Gauss from Barcelona. He combines deep software architecture and distributed-systems expertise with functional programming fluency—particularly Haskell—and practical TypeScript front-end/back-end skills. As a former co-founder and CTO of MetaLamp he helped grow one of the leading blockchain engineering teams, and at Ptichka he scaled last-mile delivery platforms with mobile apps, web front-ends and chatbots. Sergey is passionate about developer growth and has designed training and onboarding processes wherever he’s worked, blending mentorship with operational leadership. Known for bringing research-level ideas (agentic AI, functional paradigms) into production, he prefers pragmatic, testable designs that survive real-world scale and change.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Specialist, Engineering/Industrial Management, Specialist, Engineering/Industrial Management at Tomsk State University of Control Systems and Radioelectronics
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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Sergey Cherepanov - Chief Technology Officer at Gauss