Chief Technology Officer
Light IT Global
Technology strategy, delivery governance and the engineering organisation
2017 — PRESENT
CURRICULUM VITAE
Ihor Pavlenko
CTO · SOLUTION ARCHITECT · LVIV / UA
I turn uncertain technology bets into engineering systems that can be measured. Architecture for systems that carry regulated data, technical due diligence that ends in a decision rather than a report, and evaluation that gates a release instead of decorating it.
EXPERIENCE
Business analysis department
Light IT Global
Function established and led
2019 —
Delivery Management
Light IT Global
Function established and led
2019 — 2021
Project Management Office
Light IT Global
Function established and led
2017 — 2019
Project Development Manager · Solution Architect
Light IT Global
Role created to join sales and engineering: one flow from discovery to defended estimate
2015 — 2017
Machine-learning initiatives
Light IT Global
Situational lead from 2012, well before the generative cycle
2012 — 2021
Lead Software Engineer · Solution Architect
Light IT Global
Backend and architecture across trading, legal case management, marketplaces and SaaS; Python and Node.js practice leads; quality assurance office
2012 — 2015
Software Engineer
SMK Invest
Backend and databases
2011 — 2012
Software Engineer
Systema
Backend, databases and early machine-learning work
2009 — 2011
Head of IT Department
KIP
Infrastructure, internal accounting systems, network, security, web
2007 — 2009
Software development
C++, C#, databases; early machine-vision work for logistics
SINCE 2002
SKILLS
AI AND LLM SYSTEMS
Retrieval-augmented generation · retrieval diagnosis by controlled experiment · embeddings and ranking · agentic workflows and MCP integrations · model selection and cost-quality trade-offs · guardrails and failure analysis of systems already in production · machine learning since 2012
EVALUATION AND MEASUREMENT
Evaluation that gates a release · acceptance criteria frozen before measurement · ground truth taken from real decisions, not from opinion · baselines and their correction · a named falsifier written before the run · monitoring judged by artifacts, never by a job’s self-report
SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE
Distributed and event-driven systems · ports and adapters, so moving from a test source to production does not touch the domain · systems carrying regulated data · clinical layers over existing EHRs with per-fact provenance · software lifecycle informed by IEC 62304 · data modelling and PostgreSQL at depth
TECHNICAL DUE DILIGENCE
Independent audits before contracts · multi-perspective review: sixteen viewpoints in four phases · what is implemented against what is only an API surface · what is cheaper to rebuild than to keep · findings reduced to root causes with a remediation plan in hours
ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
Technology strategy and delivery governance · building the functions that did not exist: PMO, QA, business analysis, delivery management, presales · estimation and burn-rate discipline calibrated on real task history · organisation grown from about thirty people to around two hundred and fifty
DOMAINS DELIVERED IN
Health and pharma · fintech and trading · EdTech · marketplaces · HR-tech · legal · logistics · cybersecurity · developer tools · gaming and lifestyle · manufacturing · mobility
STACK
Python · TypeScript and Node.js · PostgreSQL · Cloudflare Workers and D1 · SQL at the query-plan level · earlier: C++/MFC, C#, ASP, machine vision
EDUCATION
MSc · Microelectronics and semiconductor devices
Zaporizhzhia National Technical University. Qualification includes electronics and telecommunications, and teaching in higher education
2011
BSc · Electronics
Zaporizhzhia National Technical University. Microelectronics and semiconductor devices
2010
Junior Specialist · Enterprise economics
With honours
2005
STEP Computer Academy
Software development; top marks in Visual C++/MFC, C# and ASP
2002 — 2004
LANGUAGES
Ukrainian · Russian
Native
English
C2 — re-assessed annually
German
A1