Vlady A CTO title in a small studio only means something if it comes with the work. Mine does. On the decentralized-AI side I lead delivery on Bittensor: Vidaio (Subnet 85 — AI video upscaling scored on VMAF and PieAPP), Score Vision (football game-state recognition), and the Resilabs real-estate-intelligence subnet. Incentive design, validator and miner code, evaluation pipelines — the parts where a wrong scoring function quietly destroys a network.
On the product side, I've shipped OtterChain's production AI SaaS: Nexora, a 24/7 lead-automation assistant with retrieval over each client's own corpus, and DermaIQ, AI wound-care assessment. Both live, both carrying real users, both maintained rather than demoed.
Before OtterChain I was Co-Founder & CTO of Cipherworks, a Web3 studio, where I set technical direction and shipped the Ethereum (Flashbots) and Solana (Jito) bundling launchpads, the VolumeX ZK-privacy protocol, the first DEX on Kaspa's UTXO chain and a Polymarket–Kalshi arbitrage engine. Before that, senior backend at Coinbase on settlement and wallet infrastructure — low-latency money movement, idempotency, failover: systems where being wrong is expensive and public.
The through-line isn't a stack, it's a standard. My real edge is catching the expensive bugs everyone else misses — the double-sell races, the nonce collisions, the bad stop-loss triggers. In a world where anyone can generate code, judgment is the paid skill. That's what a CTO seat is for.