Boris G.
Senior Vice President of Engineering @FairMoney
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WORK HISTORY
Senior Vice President of Engineering @FairMoney
Lead engineering, infrastructure, mobile, QA, data and cybersecurity — ~180 engineers, 6 direct reports- Scaled the org from ~110 to ~180 in 6 months:~50–60 net hires and ~12 manager promotions across all functions- Delivered ~30% overall technology cost reduction in under 9 months through cloud Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, and vendor renegotiation- Redesigned incident management: company-wide on-call process, standardized runbooks, expanded monitoring — material reduction in infrastructure incidents- Own full technology budget planning and allocation.
EDUCATION
Academy Natalia Nesterova
Master's degree, Information Technology
ABOUT BORIS G.
I build engineering organizations that can actually execute — at scale, under pressure, and without losing the people who make them work.Most recently as SVP of Engineering at FairMoney, I lead ~180 engineers across engineering, infrastructure, mobile, QA, data and cybersecurity for a mobile banking platform serving millions of users across Africa. In the past 12 months: scaled the org from 110 to 180 people, delivered a 30% reduction in technology costs, and rebuilt collections infrastructure that tripled revenue from a legacy platform — all while standing up a company-wide incident management and on-call system that materially reduced production incidents.Before the SVP role I ran collections and lending engineering at FairMoney as Senior Engineering Manager, doubling collections performance metrics and shipping a new loan funnel platform in 8 months that gave product teams full self-service over lending workflows.My operating model:→ Build teams with clear ownership, not just headcount→ Treat legacy modernization as a delivery problem, not a rewrite project→ Develop managers deliberately — I\'ve promoted 12 engineers into management in a single growth cycle→ Make engineering costs visible and treat them as product decisions→ Reduce cross-functional friction through structure, not just goodwillI\'ve led orgs through acquisitions (Rocketbank → Qiwi), rapid international scaling (FairMoney across two continents), and the messier work of replacing 8-year-old monoliths without halting delivery.Domain depth: fintech, collections & lending, digital banking, platform engineering, edtech.Seeking Head of Engineering / Principal — strong preference for remote-first or willing to relocate. If you\'re building something ambitious and need an engineering leader who has done this before, let\'s talk.
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