// alphazero · personal blog

Healthy space for coding

A space where AI engineering, a sustainable IT business and the body that carries it all converge. Quieter, deeper, to the point.

// categories

What this blog is about

01

business

Running an IT company in the era of cheap code: economics, teams, decisions and taste.

02

deep tech

LLM agents, inference infrastructure and the engineering craft behind production AI.

03

biohacking

Sleep, cold, iron and protocols that keep a twelve-hour brain online.

04

side quests

Everything that doesn't ship: hobbies, experiments and detours that keep the main quest fun.

// store

Products

// launching

soon

Useful things you can hold in your hands.

// first in line

nøva prōtocol

functional beverages

Drinks built for people who run twelve-hour days and want the body to keep pace. One serving tops up the micronutrients and electrolytes that long focus burns through — in clean, natural flavors, while quietly closing your daily water intake.

  • electrolytes
  • micronutrients
  • natural flavors
  • daily hydration
nøva prōtocol — matte black 0.5 L bottle
alphazero

// about

Hi

Online I go by alphazero. I run an IT company and a couple of startups in infosec and AI. I believe that future AI models — to the misfortune of a minority — will set off a preemptive and uncompromising change of the world order, with decentralization and privacy as the two postulates of the new network.

I work 14-hour days and fit sport, biohacking and travel in between.

// based between Belgrade · Yekaterinburg / Moscow

// experience

From big tech to building my own

  1. 2018–2020

    Google · Google DeepMind

    My big tech chapter.

  2. 2020–2024

    GPB · MTS Bank · Sovcombank

    Working at leading Russian IT and fintech companies.

  3. 2024 →

    CTO · startups

    Building products in privacy, AI and infrastructure. Now working on selflaw.

// ventures

What I build

privacy

Spaceblast VPN

A VPN service with apps for mobile and desktop.

vpn.spaceblast.ru

100,000+

monthly users

AI · software

ITS Development

An AI software production pipeline: turning software development into a repeatable process.

itsdevelopment.ru

AI

software production

infrastructure

Exilify

VPS hosting with a control panel for configuring, launching and managing virtual servers.

exilify.tech

VPS

hosting & server management

legal tech · AI

selflaw

Working on a product for managing your own legal cases: documents, deadlines and next steps, with an AI assistant.

Now

my current focus

// work with me

Build the team. Ship the product.

I bring specialists across disciplines together into a strong engineering team, with clear priorities and a shared goal: getting your product to market in weeks, not months.

A technical university education and years of hands-on work across AI and ML, mobile, web, backend and infrastructure give me the breadth to see the whole system, choose the right tools and connect the work across teams.

I connect product decisions with architecture and delivery: define the first release, establish how the team works and carry it through to launch. Open to new projects in these roles:

  • CTO
  • ML Lead Engineer
  • Mobile Lead Engineer
Discuss a project ↗

// now

Right now

currently reading

Hands-On Large Language Models

Jay Alammar, Maarten Grootendorst

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners poster
recently watched · anime

Cyberpunk: Edgerunners

Studio Trigger

Obsession (2025) poster
recently watched · movie

Obsession

2025 · dir. Curry Barker

State of art of the day

Mamba-3: Improved Sequence Modeling using State Space Principles

Lahoti, Li, Chen et al. · arXiv, Mar 2026

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