CV

Maksym Skorchenko

Head of Engineering | AI Transformation

Krakow, Poland · Master's Degree, Specialized Computer Systems

Summary

Technical Product Manager and Engineering Leader with 15+ years in software engineering, product development, and management.

Experience in B2B SaaS, AI products, system architecture, and cross-functional team leadership.

Worked on LLM/RAG systems, AI agents, Computer Vision, forecasting, and distributed cloud and edge platforms.

Professional Experience

Petrosoft LLC — Site Integration & Head of AI

Jan 2013 — Nov 2019, Rejoined May 2023 — Present

Latest Tenure (May 2023 — Present)

  • Site Integration Manager: Stabilized and optimized edge device systems for fuel station integration, reducing support tickets by 30% per business unit. Managed Embedded Linux systems, microservices, and custom OS image creation.
  • Head of AI / AI Portfolio Lead: Coordinated the company's AI initiatives as architect, developer, researcher, project manager, and product manager across multiple AI projects.
  • Invoice recognition and digitization tools.
  • Self-improving support assistant based on internal knowledge, training materials, and customer interactions.
  • Demand forecasting subsystem for auto-ordering using location clustering and time-series models.
  • Topic discovery system for support training based on ticket clustering and summarization.
  • Platform for virtual employees.
  • Integration layer over company data and APIs for AI applications.

Petrosoft LLC — Tech Lead / Technical Product Manager

Jan 2013 — Nov 2019

Led development of a Point of Sale product from prototype to production, including integrations with payment processors, fuel controllers, and fiscal systems across multiple countries. Grew the team from 5 to 15+ engineers and built operations around 24/7 support.

3DLOOK — Technical Product Manager

Aug 2021 — Feb 2025

Led delivery across Virtual Try-On, YourFit, and an AI text editor across ML, Computer Vision, backend, 3D, and QA automation tracks.

  • Virtual Try-On: delivered product features, improved scalability, and reduced onboarding costs.
  • YourFit: sizing recommendation product for large retailers based on customer photos and body measurements.
  • AI Text Editor: summarization, plagiarism detection, paraphrasing, autocomplete, grammar and style correction, document storage, search, citations, and reference discovery.

Nayax LTD — CPO

Oct 2020 — Aug 2021

Integrated a retail business unit into global Nayax processes, aligning product, engineering, and operations.

Netcracker — Technical Product Manager

Nov 2019 — Oct 2020

Transitioned from Senior Java Developer and Team Lead to Technical Product Manager. Led a team of 5 developers building a marketing analytics engine for a major UK mobile operator.

Early Career

Vedius Soft s.r.o. — Full Stack Web Developer (May 2010 — Jan 2013)

Built web and desktop solutions including task management, insurance back office, retail back office, and a sports news portal.

Alchevsk Iron and Steel Works — C++ Software Engineer (Jun 2006 — May 2010)

Worked on support and development of the technology model for thick metal rolling.

Key Skills

AI/ML & Data: LLMs, RAG, Qdrant, Transformers, MCP, AI agents, Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Predictive Analytics, NLP, Time Series Forecasting, Vector Databases, LangChain, ML-Agents, DBSCAN.

Leadership & Management: Engineering Management, Technical Leadership, Product Management, R&D Leadership, Technical Strategy, Hiring, Team Building, Project Management, Go-To-Market, Technical Due Diligence.

Architecture & Development: Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Backend Development, API Design, Embedded Linux, CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Kafka.

Programming Languages & Frameworks: Python, Java, C++, PHP, JavaScript, Spring, React, Unity 3D/C#, Unreal Engine/C#.

Domains: AI/ML Startups, RetailTech, SaaS, POS Systems, IoT, Enterprise Automation.