--- title: Daniil Kutsyna - CV description: Full CV of Daniil Kutsyna, Applied AI Engineer based in London, UK. canonical: https://daniilkutsyna.com/cv.md last-updated: 2026-11-13 --- # Daniil Kutsyna **Applied AI Engineer** · London, UK · [daniil.kutsyna@gmail.com](mailto:daniil.kutsyna@gmail.com) · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniil-kutsyna/) · [GitHub](https://github.com/username255) · [Website](https://daniilkutsyna.com/) ## Profile Operator and builder with 10+ years of experience across fintech, prop-tech and insurance. Currently building an AI-native bank: context, memory, brain. Before that, worked in AI-native startups and pre-AI-era scale-ups, and was part of digital transformations for multiple businesses (B2B, B2C, B2B2C). Mostly self-taught, no BS, curious about how things work and don't work. ## Open to World-class Applied AI and product engineer. More than a programmer: product taste, an eye for design, 10+ years of front-ends people actually use, and real understanding of fintech, insurance and prop-tech. Building the context layer and the company brain that make AI work across a whole company, and getting people to adopt it. No BS. Enjoy making it happen. Open to conversations about new roles: Applied AI Engineer, Product Engineer, Founding Engineer, Provisional CTO. Contact: daniil.kutsyna@gmail.com. Great match for: - Applied AI roles: agents, context layers and company brains, in production - Product Engineer: owning the problem end to end - the product call, the design, the build, the ship - Founding Engineer: zero-to-one, first hire, MVP from scratch - Provisional CTO: early teams that want AI-native engineering and product from day one - Companies adopting AI: taking a whole org AI-native, people and process included Proof: - Built the context layer at OakNorth Bank, part of a 3x productivity increase - Helped turn Abound's engineering AI-native; built agents for operations and underwriting support - First hire at Nettle: several MVP iterations from scratch - Helped define product vision and design system at SmartXpo, from alpha to MVP and beta - Turned complex regulatory checks into a simple onboarding at Brewin Dolphin; clients onboarded 10x+ faster - Founder-in-Residence at Antler: validated ideas, advised peer founders on feasibility and strategy Beyond code: - Product taste: what to build and what to leave out; ship, measure, iterate - Eye for design: design systems, component libraries, a decade of front-ends; how it looks and feels matters - Domain: fintech (banking, lending, wealth, payments), insurance and prop-tech, regulated parts included - AI adoption: getting people and teams to actually change how they work, not just install a tool - Startups: founder-in-residence, first hire, advising early stage founders - Leadership: led technical teams, hiring and onboarding, mentoring - No BS: direct, curious about how things work and don't work, enjoy making it happen ## Current focus - Context layers for companies - Company brains: shared context and memory for an organisation - AI adoption and moving teams to AI-native ways of working - Visuals and teaching AI beauty: how to explain taste to a model and verify the result - Software factories and dark factories ## Experience ### AI Engineer · [OakNorth Bank](https://oaknorth.co.uk/) **May 2026 – Present** · *Bank for entrepreneurs in the UK and US* - AI transformation: built the context layer, part of a 3x productivity increase *Stack: Claude, Python, TypeScript, AWS, Shell* ### AI Engineer · [Abound (formerly Fintern)](https://getabound.com/) **Mar 2025 – May 2026** · *Consumer credit-technology platform* - Applied AI: building agents for operations and supporting the underwriting platform - Improving the engineering function and transforming the org for the AI-native age *Stack: TypeScript, Python, Claude, Gemini, FastAPI, Next.js* ### Founding Engineer · [Nettle](https://www.getnettle.com/) **Jan 2025 – Feb 2025** · *Insurtech startup* - Contractor, then first hire; built several iterations of the MVP from scratch *Stack: TypeScript, Next.js, React, Python, Django, FastAPI, Claude* ### Founder-in-Residence · [Antler](https://www.antler.co/) **Oct 2024 – Nov 2024** · *VC incubator startup program* - Quick dive into the VC world: validated multiple startup ideas, matched with co-founders, interviewed founders and researched markets - Reached out to potential partners and advised peer founders on technical feasibility, POCs and strategy ### Senior Front-End Engineer · [Abound (formerly Fintern)](https://getabound.com/) **Jan 2024 – Nov 2024** · *Consumer credit-technology startup* - Scaled the platform for future growth, in both code and processes - Improved the tech stack to ensure consistency, scalability and maintainability - Migrated grids to AG Grid and created reusable internal libraries, including a component library *Stack: Angular 16-17, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, AG Grid, Python, FastAPI, Product design, A/B testing* ### Front-End Lead · [Diesta](https://diesta.co.uk/) **May 2023 – Dec 2023** · *Insurtech startup* - Re-engineered payments and reports processing for insurance companies - Built and validated new digital products - Helped with early traction and POCs *Stack: Angular 13-17, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, AG Grid, Node, Python, Product design, A/B testing* ### Senior Front-End Engineer · [Domestic & General](https://www.domesticandgeneral.com/) **Aug 2022 – Apr 2023** · *Insurance company* - Optimised customer journeys to enhance user experience and increase engagement - Integrated and migrated multiple business-critical web journeys within the CMS platform - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure successful delivery of projects - Conducted code reviews and mentored junior team members *Stack: Angular 12-13, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, Jest, Git, Magnolia SaaS* ### Senior Front-End Engineer · [finlink.de (Bilthouse-Gruppe)](https://finlink.de/) **Sep 2020 – Aug 2022** · *Real-estate platform for home buyers and financial advisors* - Took part in creating one of the company's main new sources of income (Lead-shop) - Migrated a monolithic Angular app to Nx and worked on splitting it into micro-apps - Improved build times and optimised app performance - Worked closely with product, UX, sales and other engineers to bring new journeys to life *Stack: Angular 9-13, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, React, JavaScript, Nx, Rails, Git, AG Grid* ### Senior Front-End Engineer · [Brewin Dolphin (acquired by RBC)](https://www.rbcwealthmanagement.com/en-uk/) **Feb 2020 – Jul 2022** · *Private wealth management firm* - Led the front-end team to digitalise 2 onboarding journeys - Led creation of UI libraries; worked on micro-apps and other scalability approaches - Engineered complex regulatory check flows into a simple onboarding experience - Helped onboard clients 10x+ faster and reach business goals *Stack: Angular 10-13, TypeScript, HTML, SCSS, Jest, D3.js, Git* ### Front-End Lead · SmartXpo (Plural Strategy) **Jun 2018 – Mar 2020** · *B2B SaaS pricing-analytics platform for the exhibition industry* - Took over an alpha version of the code and helped deliver the MVP and beta - Helped define the product vision and design system; ran iterative designs with A/B tests and ideation - Created and maintained the component library and custom theme - Involved in hiring and onboarding, CI/CD setup, test automation, API design and integrations *Stack: Angular 5-8, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, SCSS, AWS, Cypress, D3.js, Git* ### Front-End Lead · [portmone.com.ua](https://www.portmone.com.ua/en) **Dec 2017 – Jun 2018** · *Payment gateway with 3.6m+ monthly visits* - Led the front-end team and rewrote the B2B solution (PHP to Angular) - Worked on performance optimisations *Stack: Angular 7-8, TypeScript, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, SVN* ### Full-Stack Engineer · avionix.eu **Jan 2017 – Aug 2017** · *Healthcare prototype* - Built a sophisticated healthcare prototype that helped the company earn another funding round *Stack: Angular 2-4, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Python, Flask, Git* ### Full-Stack Engineer · Freelance, startup and small projects **Jan 2014 – Jan 2018** · *Freelance and early-stage projects* - Co-founded a startup after one of the hackathons - Led front-end of a blockchain gamified marketplace, launched within 3 months from scratch with a team of 5 - Launched 8 payday-loan websites in 3 months, iterated with A/B tests and improved loading times 10x+ - Took part in 30+ hackathons all over Europe ## Education - **Master's degree, Software Engineering** · University of Tartu (2014 – 2017) - **Master's degree, Informatics** · Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (2008 – 2014) ## Skills - **AI:** Claude, Codex, Agents, Context layers, AI adoption - **Languages:** TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, HTML, CSS - **Front end:** Next.js, React, Angular, Vue.js - **Back end and cloud:** FastAPI, AWS, GCP, Azure - **Tooling:** Git, SVN ## Other formats - [PDF](https://daniilkutsyna.com/cv__daniil_kutsyna.pdf) - [JSON Resume](https://daniilkutsyna.com/resume.json)