I've spent 20 years building technology that operates at serious scale, mostly in fintech and high-load systems.

I started by running UPDG, a development agency that served major film studios and Fortune 500 companies. From there I co-founded ComCard, a fintech startup in the corporate charge card space where I built credit underwriting systems and banking infrastructure, securing partnerships with MasterCard and major card-issuing banks.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, I joined one of the largest non-bank PPP lenders in the country as the first engineering hire and scaled the operation from zero to processing $12.5 billion in loans across nearly 2 million applications, serving over 800,000 independent contractors. At peak, we handled 50,000 applications a day. I built and led a 10+ person engineering team, designed the KYC and fraud prevention architecture, and created compliance reporting systems for federal oversight.

Originally from Kyiv, Ukraine, I moved to the US in 2013 and am now based in Austin, Texas.

Today I'm building GiveSpark, a charity discovery and transparency platform. There are 1.8 million nonprofits in the US, and whether you're an individual donor, a financial advisor, or a foundation, finding organizations that truly align with your values shouldn't require a research team. GiveSpark uses all available public data—IRS filings, grant records, program details—to make that process conversational, intuitive, and data-driven. It's the kind of problem I love: making a complex system accessible to real people.