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Fractional / Full-time Engineering Manager

Grigoriy Dobryakov

The predictability partner for high-growth tech: I turn engineering culture into business capital and ensure reliable product delivery under high uncertainty, including AI transformation and stack shifts.

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Market Segments

Where I create the highest value.

Enterprise in AI Transformation

Large corporations with legacy landscapes where the cost of failure is high. Focus: safe AI integration, controlled pace of change, and predictable delivery timelines.

  • • Key benefit: fewer delivery black swans.
  • • Expert role: risk insurance for CTO/VP Engineering.
  • • Message: stability without losing speed.

AI Scale-up (Series B/C)

Fast-growing companies where product traction outpaces engineering operations. Focus: turning chaotic development into a mature value-delivery machine without bureaucracy.

  • • Key benefit: a growth foundation without slowing teams down.
  • • Expert role: the adult in the room for founder-led companies.
  • • Message: mature SDLC as an accelerator, not a constraint.

Traditional Business

Banking, retail, and industrial companies that need measurable outcomes from digitalization and AI. Focus: cost reduction, profitability growth, and reliable transformation without hype.

  • • Key benefit: AI as profit, not hype.
  • • Expert role: a bridge between proven practices and the new tech wave.
  • • Message: predictable results in business language.

Cases

Evidence, metrics, and business outcomes.

UMI.CMS/UMI.RU — from boxed product to SaaS

Rebuilt product lifecycle and engineering processes to enable a scalable transition to a cloud model.

  • • Context: 65k clients -> 1.8M users.
  • • Action: department reorganization and engineering culture rollout.
  • • Result: 50% revenue growth and controlled scaling.

Askona — enterprise transformation and scalable architecture

40+ services architecture, event bus, automation, and AI agents in a large-scale ecosystem.

  • • Context: 15M clients, $680M+ turnover.
  • • Action: architectural modernization and operations orchestration.
  • • Result: lower costs and faster time-to-market.

PersonaClick — personalization and ML at scale

Modernized a personalization platform with ML and predictive analytics to remove infrastructure bottlenecks.

  • • Context: 199M+ user profiles.
  • • Action: product-level engineering and platform evolution.
  • • Result: cashflow growth and stronger customer retention.

KORUS Consulting — service quality and profitability

Reorganized a loss-making department and introduced quality control processes, including automated testing and expectation management with clients.

  • • Context: B2B services with a high cost of failure.
  • • Action: operational turnaround and de-escalation in complex client situations.
  • • Result: profitability and customer satisfaction growth.

Who This Is For

Different stakeholders get different, measurable value.

CEO / Founder

I build an engineering system that can scale with your business and take delivery chaos off your shoulders.

  • • Predictable delivery and measurable economic impact.
  • • Delegation of operational management load.
  • • Scaling without manual micromanagement.

Chief Digital Officer (CDO)

I align business goals with engineering execution so your digital roadmap turns into delivered outcomes.

  • • Execution of the digital initiatives portfolio.
  • • Transformation risk management.
  • • Predictable path from initiatives to production.

Professional Buyer

I provide transparent delivery discipline and reduce supplier selection risk for management services.

  • • Transparent commitments on timelines and budget.
  • • Controlled quality parameters.
  • • Reliable execution in high-cost-of-failure contexts.

CTO / VP Engineering

I accelerate delivery without losing control and reduce both technical and organizational risk.

  • • Release predictability.
  • • Speed/quality balance.
  • • C-level peace of mind.

Chief Architect

I introduce new practices and AI capabilities without breaking architectural foundations.

  • • Managed architectural debt.
  • • Solution compatibility.
  • • Platform growth without fragility.

HR / Head of Recruitment

I provide a verifiable profile and a clear value narrative that works for both business and engineering teams.

  • • Reduced hiring risk.
  • • Mature leadership.
  • • Team and culture stability.

Need predictable product delivery under growth and uncertainty?

Engagement formats: Fractional / Full-time Engineering Manager, crisis delivery stabilization, and architecture/organization transformation for scale.

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