Stepan Pushkarev is a seasoned engineering leader and serial founder with a decade of experience building AI, Big Data and ML platforms from Palo Alto. As Co-founder and CTO/CEO of Provectus and former CTO of Hydrosphere.io, he specializes in taking models and data pipelines from experimentation into resilient, production-grade systems that monitor drift, automate retraining, and scale across enterprise workloads. His startups have focused on practical MLOps and logistics automation—turning messy production traffic into clean retraining datasets and enabling realtime model testing and deployment strategies. Stepan blends hands-on system architecture with product-led execution, having led teams delivering Customer 360, supply-chain optimization, intelligent document and realtime video solutions for large enterprises. He brings operator-level thinking from earlier lead development roles at T-Mobile and Exigen, which informs his emphasis on observability, reliability and measurable business impact. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs entrepreneurial grit with deep technical pragmatism, often solving the data-prep and deployment problems that trip many ML initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Kazan National Research Technical University named after A.N.Tupolev – KAI
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Stepan Pushkarev - Co-founder, CTO CEO at Provectus, Inc