Alexey Klepikov

Alexey Klepikov

CIO · Management Board member · 25+ years in banking, insurance and international consulting. Digital & AI transformation, platform modernization, mission-critical high-load infrastructure, international expansion.
Moscow · EN / RU / DE
aklepikov@inbox.ru
+7 916 656 08 57
Boardroom × hands-on

I have led an IT function of 2,000+ people as a bank's Management Board member — and I personally design and build AI products: LLM agents, enterprise RAG, production code. C-level strategy validated with my own hands is a rare combination.

25+
years in financial-sector IT
Management Board member: top-20 bank & top-3 insurer
2,000+
IT professionals managed
$150M
annual IT budget (RUB 13B)
100+
product teams under SAFe
99.85%
mobile bank availability after replatforming

Now2026 →

Founder · own AI product

Enterprise Operational Intelligence Platform (EOIP)

An AI platform that builds a knowledge graph across all of a client's systems and uses LLM agents to proactively warn of failures, automatically quantify business impact and generate recommendations. Cuts incident Time to Explain from 40–90 to 3–10 minutes.

  • MVP built AI-native: LLM agents (LangGraph), enterprise RAG (Qdrant)
  • Integrations with the enterprise stack: ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Kubernetes, GitLab, Jira
  • Preparing CIO-level bank pilots; target — first pilot by end of 2026
LangGraph · Qdrant · RAG · knowledge graph · agents
Hands-on GenAI

I know the technology first-hand

I believe an executive should personally understand the technology they govern. I design and build working systems end-to-end — architecture, code, operations: agentic workflows with human-in-the-loop, RAG pipelines with citations, evals and observability.

Python · FastAPI · LangGraph · Docker · Claude Code

Selected resultswhat I bring to an organization

95% → 99.85%

Mobile bank replatformed

Fully replaced MTS Bank's flagship app: availability up to 99.85%, 15× faster performance, 10× higher peak load capacity.

MTS Bank · 2021–2025
3 months

International expansion

Opened a Middle East branch (UAE) in 3 months. Earlier career: projects and teams in London, New York, Prague, Cyprus and South Africa.

UAE · global delivery experience
9 months

A bank from scratch

Launched the new retail bank MTS Dengi on modern platforms — core banking, processing and CRM live in 9 months. Plus two microfinance companies from scratch.

greenfield · core banking · CRM
2–7×

Faster time-to-market

Full digital transformation at Ingosstrakh: time-to-market cut 2–7×, product volumes doubled. 30+ product teams, SLAs with every business line.

Ingosstrakh · 2017–2021
AI at scale

GenAI transformation

Co-launched MTS Bank's AI transformation: AI co-pilots with MTS AI, a RAG pipeline over corporate data, application design and testing with AI agents.

co-pilots · RAG · agentic engineering
Resilience

Operating under pressure

Steered the bank through sanctions: vendor exits, platform localization, infrastructure sovereignty, app-store publishing workarounds — with zero service disruption.

risk · continuity · localization

Careerbanking · insurance · consulting

2026 — nowfounder

EOIP · own AI product

Founder
  • Enterprise Operational Intelligence Platform — knowledge graph + LLM agents for proactive incident management; unique in its market
2021–20254 yrs 10 mos

MTS Bank · top-20 Russian bank

Member of the Management Board, Vice President, CIO
  • Full IT reorganization: 2,000+ FTE, 100+ product teams under SAFe Agile
  • New digital business platform; mobile app replaced (99.85% availability, 15× faster, 10× load)
  • MTS ecosystem integration: My MTS storefront, MTS Pay, BNPL; co-launched the AI transformation program
  • International expansion (UAE branch in 3 months), MTS Dengi retail bank in 9 months, two MFOs from scratch
  • New SME core banking; sanctions resilience; real-time IT KPI & incentive system; M&A support across 30 legal entities
  • Top-1000 Russian Managers 2021–2025 · ITSM Project of the Year 2022, 2023, 2025
2017–20213 yrs 11 mos

Ingosstrakh · top-3 Russian insurer

Member of the Management Board, Vice President, CIO · IT of all group subsidiaries
  • Full digital transformation of IT and the business; time-to-market 2–7× faster, product volumes doubled
  • ITSM service model (ServiceNow), 30+ SAFe teams, SLAs with all business lines
  • Migrated the organization to a new HR & payroll platform — 86 branches, 25,000+ staff
  • New website and mobile app with remote inspection and remote claims settlement
  • Top-1000 Russian Managers · ITSM Project of the Year 2018, 2019 · Golden Site · Tagline Awards
2015–20172 yrs

VTB24 · top-2 Russian retail bank (VTB Group)

Deputy Director, IT Department
  • IT finance, project office and regional IT (700+ staff); IT budget of RUB 13B/year, currency-risk optimization
  • Built a 600-specialist IT service center in Samara; led core-banking platform selection
2006–20158 yrs

Renaissance Capital · leading international investment bank

Lead Business Partner / Head of Technical Support Department
  • Led an international department: 40 people, $4M budget; delivered 50+ major IT projects
  • Worked across London, New York, Cyprus and South Africa
2004–2006consulting

Accenture · top-4 global consulting firm

Consultant · banks, investment and insurance companies
  • Renaissance Capital, Alfa-Bank, Banca Intesa, Česká Pojišťovna; a year in Europe leading an international team in Prague
  • Implementations: Temenos T24, MISYS, Diasoft, CFT, QUIK

Education · languages · recognition

Education

Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityPhysics · 1996–2001
HSE UniversityFinance · 2000–2004
Physics + finance backgroundengineer + executive

Languages

Englishfluent
Russiannative
Germanconversational

Recognition

Top-1000 Russian Managers2017–2025
ITSM Project of the Year×5 · 2018–2025
Golden Site · Tagline2017–2018
Designed and built by hand — like everything I manage. Русская версия →