Anton Chislov

AI-powered real-time threat & risk intelligence platform with cross-border payment processing
Partnered with CEO and founding board to set technology strategy and quarterly KPI cadence, aligning cross-functional
stakeholders across data, platform, security and compliance leads around the company's regulator-ready growth plan.
Established the cybersecurity and risk management program aligned to NIST CSF and ISO 27001: security controls
framework, access control policies, data privacy governance, incident response playbook, and BCP/DR plan reviewed
quarterly with board.
Drove a build-versus-buy review on cross-border settlement, automating the workflow internally on a $115K build versus
~$1.2M Currencycloud alternative (10.4x cost advantage) while accelerating $1.8M annual cash flow.
Built event-driven data platform aggregating threat feeds and transaction streams - processing 8.3B monthly events at
$180K annual run cost, enabling real-time fraud ML, threat detection and audit-grade compliance reporting.
Expanded payment network to 7 corridors across Southeast Asia and Latin America with ML-powered fraud detection
reducing failed payments 42%, supporting 35% YoY revenue growth.

- Drove 35% productivity improvement and 25% turnover reduction by implementing company-wide OKRs, performance reviews and mentoring.
- Achieved over 1 million total users in the first year of products use through cross-functional collaboration, data-driven approaches, and a 30% optimisation of development cycles.
- Played a crucial role in boosting revenue by 47% and reducing TTM by 50% by expanding tech offerings, integrating AI and blockchain and collaborating effectively with Sales.
- Increased operational efficiency by 27% during digital transformation by aligning tech initiatives with business objectives and integrating technologies across departments.
- Elevated user experience and drove a 30% engagement increase by spearheading AI integration into products and prioritising features based on user feedback and behaviour analytics.

Post-seed FX and payment platform
Drove 2x monthly transaction growth, reaching $12M in monthly transaction volume by architecting real-time FX pricing
engine across major currency pairs while reducing customer costs 15%.
Architected a Kafka, Flink and BigQuery analytics pipeline supporting 3x traffic capacity at 23% lower infrastructure cost.
Achieved operational stability at 99.87% uptime and 45-minute MTTR while reducing incident count 50% through
systematic monitoring and SDLC discipline.
Built the engineering organisation from 27 to 39 engineers across specialized data, ML and platform tracks, and led the
cybersecurity and risk management programs (SOC2, PCI-DSS) that became the foundation for institutional client
onboarding.
Partnered with Compliance and Treasury leads to align FX architecture decisions with evolving PCI-DSS, AML and
regulatory compliance expectations, navigating trade-offs between latency, fraud exposure, and audit defensibility

- Scaled hiring manager training and interview process refinement enabled 96 of 105 hires in 5.5 months, fulfilling 95% of the recruitment plan.
- Directed IT performance reviews, set stages, coordinated HR/C&B, authored guidelines, maintained

- Streamlined recruiting reducing time-to-offer to 4.5 days, and created an onboarding playbook for managers. Hired and onboarded three dev teams from scratch in 3 months leveraging efficient organizational and interpersonal skills.
- Initiated GIST product planning approach forming product plans quarterly in advance and halving pending projects thanks to strategic planning and product management expertise.
- Implemented new organizational role, increasing team units by 40-60% without compromising productivity or control, demonstrating corporate design and leadership skills.

- Instituted agile practices like planning, demos, retrospectives, and 1:1s, enhancing consistent performance over an 85% sprint completion rate.
- As tech and stakeholder lead, refactored logging systems reducing false positives by 40% and boosting efficiency by 23%, leveraging technical knowledge and strong project management skills.
- Championed GoLang adoption enabling 30% scaling savings and 2x faster Kubernetes rollout thanks to expertise in GoLang, Kubernetes, and innovative technical leadership.