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    "name": "Daniil Kutsyna",
    "label": "Applied AI Engineer",
    "email": "daniil.kutsyna@gmail.com",
    "url": "https://daniilkutsyna.com/",
    "summary": "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.",
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      "city": "London",
      "countryCode": "GB"
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  "openTo": {
    "status": "Open to conversations about new roles",
    "roles": [
      "Applied AI Engineer",
      "Product Engineer",
      "Founding Engineer",
      "Provisional CTO"
    ],
    "pitch": "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.",
    "greatMatchFor": [
      "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"
    ],
    "contact": "daniil.kutsyna@gmail.com"
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  "strengths": [
    "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"
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  "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"
  ],
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    {
      "name": "OakNorth Bank",
      "position": "AI Engineer",
      "url": "https://oaknorth.co.uk/",
      "startDate": "2026-05",
      "description": "Bank for entrepreneurs in the UK and US",
      "industry": "FinTech",
      "summary": "Building an AI-native bank.",
      "highlights": [
        "AI transformation: built the context layer, part of a 3x productivity increase"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Claude",
        "Python",
        "TypeScript",
        "AWS",
        "Shell"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Abound (formerly Fintern)",
      "position": "AI Engineer",
      "url": "https://getabound.com/",
      "startDate": "2025-03",
      "endDate": "2026-05",
      "description": "Consumer credit-technology platform",
      "industry": "FinTech",
      "summary": "Transforming an ML leader into an AI-native company.",
      "highlights": [
        "Applied AI: building agents for operations and supporting the underwriting platform",
        "Improving the engineering function and transforming the org for the AI-native age"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Python",
        "Claude",
        "Gemini",
        "FastAPI",
        "Next.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Nettle",
      "position": "Founding Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.getnettle.com/",
      "startDate": "2025-01",
      "endDate": "2025-02",
      "description": "Insurtech startup",
      "industry": "InsureTech",
      "summary": "Zero-to-one MVP.",
      "highlights": [
        "Contractor, then first hire; built several iterations of the MVP from scratch"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Next.js",
        "React",
        "Python",
        "Django",
        "FastAPI",
        "Claude"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Antler",
      "position": "Founder-in-Residence",
      "url": "https://www.antler.co/",
      "startDate": "2024-10",
      "endDate": "2024-11",
      "description": "VC incubator startup program",
      "industry": "Venture capital",
      "summary": "Deep dive into day 0 of company building.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": []
    },
    {
      "name": "Abound (formerly Fintern)",
      "position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
      "url": "https://getabound.com/",
      "startDate": "2024-01",
      "endDate": "2024-11",
      "description": "Consumer credit-technology startup",
      "industry": "FinTech",
      "summary": "Platform scaling.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 16-17",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "AG Grid",
        "Python",
        "FastAPI",
        "Product design",
        "A/B testing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Diesta",
      "position": "Front-End Lead",
      "url": "https://diesta.co.uk/",
      "startDate": "2023-05",
      "endDate": "2023-12",
      "description": "Insurtech startup",
      "industry": "InsureTech",
      "summary": "MVPs and early traction.",
      "highlights": [
        "Re-engineered payments and reports processing for insurance companies",
        "Built and validated new digital products",
        "Helped with early traction and POCs"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 13-17",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "AG Grid",
        "Node",
        "Python",
        "Product design",
        "A/B testing"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Domestic & General",
      "position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.domesticandgeneral.com/",
      "startDate": "2022-08",
      "endDate": "2023-04",
      "description": "Insurance company",
      "industry": "Insurance",
      "summary": "Platform optimisation.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 12-13",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "Jest",
        "Git",
        "Magnolia SaaS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "finlink.de (Bilthouse-Gruppe)",
      "position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
      "url": "https://finlink.de/",
      "startDate": "2020-09",
      "endDate": "2022-08",
      "description": "Real-estate platform for home buyers and financial advisors",
      "industry": "PropTech",
      "summary": "There from the early days until the founders' exit.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 9-13",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "React",
        "JavaScript",
        "Nx",
        "Rails",
        "Git",
        "AG Grid"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brewin Dolphin (acquired by RBC)",
      "position": "Senior Front-End Engineer",
      "url": "https://www.rbcwealthmanagement.com/en-uk/",
      "startDate": "2020-02",
      "endDate": "2022-07",
      "description": "Private wealth management firm",
      "industry": "Finance, wealth management",
      "summary": "Digital transformation.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 10-13",
        "TypeScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "Jest",
        "D3.js",
        "Git"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "SmartXpo (Plural Strategy)",
      "position": "Front-End Lead",
      "startDate": "2018-06",
      "endDate": "2020-03",
      "description": "B2B SaaS pricing-analytics platform for the exhibition industry",
      "industry": "SaaS, analytics",
      "summary": "Alpha to MVP and beta.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 5-8",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "HTML",
        "SCSS",
        "AWS",
        "Cypress",
        "D3.js",
        "Git"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "portmone.com.ua",
      "position": "Front-End Lead",
      "url": "https://www.portmone.com.ua/en",
      "startDate": "2017-12",
      "endDate": "2018-06",
      "description": "Payment gateway with 3.6m+ monthly visits",
      "industry": "FinTech, payments",
      "summary": "B2B rewrite.",
      "highlights": [
        "Led the front-end team and rewrote the B2B solution (PHP to Angular)",
        "Worked on performance optimisations"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 7-8",
        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "PHP",
        "SVN"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "avionix.eu",
      "position": "Full-Stack Engineer",
      "startDate": "2017-01",
      "endDate": "2017-08",
      "description": "Healthcare prototype",
      "industry": "HealthTech",
      "summary": "Prototype that unlocked funding.",
      "highlights": [
        "Built a sophisticated healthcare prototype that helped the company earn another funding round"
      ],
      "keywords": [
        "Angular 2-4",
        "JavaScript",
        "HTML",
        "CSS",
        "Python",
        "Flask",
        "Git"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Freelance, startup and small projects",
      "position": "Full-Stack Engineer",
      "startDate": "2014-01",
      "endDate": "2018-01",
      "description": "Freelance and early-stage projects",
      "industry": "Freelance",
      "summary": "B2B and B2C products.",
      "highlights": [
        "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"
      ],
      "keywords": []
    }
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  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "University of Tartu",
      "area": "Software Engineering",
      "studyType": "Master's degree",
      "startDate": "2014",
      "endDate": "2017"
    },
    {
      "institution": "Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv",
      "area": "Informatics",
      "studyType": "Master's degree",
      "startDate": "2008",
      "endDate": "2014"
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    {
      "name": "AI",
      "keywords": [
        "Claude",
        "Codex",
        "Agents",
        "Context layers",
        "AI adoption"
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        "TypeScript",
        "JavaScript",
        "Python",
        "HTML",
        "CSS"
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    {
      "name": "Front end",
      "keywords": [
        "Next.js",
        "React",
        "Angular",
        "Vue.js"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Back end and cloud",
      "keywords": [
        "FastAPI",
        "AWS",
        "GCP",
        "Azure"
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      "name": "Tooling",
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        "Git",
        "SVN"
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    {
      "slug": "oaknorth-context-layer",
      "title": "Context layer for an AI-native bank",
      "company": "OakNorth Bank",
      "role": "AI Engineer",
      "when": "2026 - now",
      "problem": "Making AI useful across a whole bank, not in one team's demo.",
      "built": "The context layer of the bank's AI transformation: context, memory, brain.",
      "result": "Part of a 3x productivity increase.",
      "stack": [
        "Claude",
        "Python",
        "TypeScript",
        "AWS"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "nettle-mvp",
      "title": "Zero-to-one MVP for an insurtech startup",
      "company": "Nettle",
      "role": "Founding Engineer",
      "when": "early 2025",
      "problem": "Day one of an insurtech startup: no product yet.",
      "built": "Joined as a contractor, became the first hire. Built the MVP from scratch and took it through several iterations.",
      "result": "From nothing to a working MVP in two months.",
      "stack": [
        "TypeScript",
        "Next.js",
        "React",
        "Python",
        "Django",
        "FastAPI",
        "Claude"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "brewin-dolphin-onboarding",
      "title": "Wealth-management onboarding, 10x+ faster",
      "company": "Brewin Dolphin (acquired by RBC)",
      "role": "Senior Front-End Engineer, led the front-end team",
      "when": "2020 - 2022",
      "problem": "Opening an account meant complex regulatory checks.",
      "built": "Led the front-end team that digitalised 2 onboarding journeys. Turned the regulatory check flows into a simple onboarding experience. Led the UI libraries.",
      "result": "Clients onboarded 10x+ faster.",
      "stack": [
        "Angular",
        "TypeScript",
        "D3.js",
        "Jest"
      ]
    },
    {
      "slug": "smartxpo-alpha-to-beta",
      "title": "Pricing analytics for the exhibition industry: alpha to beta",
      "company": "SmartXpo (Plural Strategy)",
      "role": "Front-End Lead",
      "when": "2018 - 2020",
      "problem": "A B2B SaaS product inherited at alpha.",
      "built": "Helped define the product vision and the design system, ran iterative designs with A/B tests, built and maintained the component library and theme. Also hiring, onboarding, CI/CD and API design.",
      "result": "Delivered the MVP, then the beta.",
      "stack": [
        "Angular",
        "TypeScript",
        "D3.js",
        "AWS",
        "Cypress"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "verify": [
    "Most of this work is B2B and internal: tools, processes and products, under NDA. No public screenshots, demos or client names, by design",
    "Employment history: the same roles and dates are on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniil-kutsyna/), and each role links to the company's own site",
    "Employment is verifiable through a standard background check",
    "Numbers such as 3x and 10x+ are my own account of the work, not audited figures; happy to walk through them on a call",
    "References can be arranged on request"
  ]
}