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Anton Vinogradov

Anton Vinogradov

CTO @ Acclaim.ai

City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South AfricaInformation Technology & Services
Company
Aiphoria
Title
Chief Technology Officer | Voice First Ai Platform
Seniority
C Suite
Department
Master Engineering Technical
Location
City Of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Industry
Information Technology & Services

About

Engineering Leader with 15+ years building AI systems at scale. Former Head of Software Engineering at SberDevices, where I created the Salute AI assistant serving 100M+ users. Built and scaled engineering organizations from 0 to 100+ developers across Yandex, Alfa-Bank, and now as CTO at Aiphoria. 🚀 Current: Leading voice AI revolution at Aiphoria - architecting enterprise-grade conversational AI platform with on-premise LLM/ASR/TTS deployment, serving enterprise clients across the USA, Europe, and Mid Asia. Track Record of Innovation 💡 • Yandex (Search Architect): Led migration of Russia's largest search engine (150M+ DAU) to modern stack. Orchestrated multi-year transformation across 20+ teams while maintaining zero-downtime operations; • Alfa-Bank (Sr. Engineering Manager): Built 20+ development teams from scratch. Co-created Russia's first design system with Lebedev Studio. Delivered online banking platforms processing millions of daily transactions; • SberDevices (Head of Softw…

Experience

Chief Technology Officer | Voice First Ai Platform

Aiphoria

Present

Leading technical vision for an enterprise voice AI platform serving the USA, Europe, and Mid Asia markets. We build scalable on-premise infrastructure that powers millions of real-time AI conversations for sales, support, and collection automation. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Architected a strategic platform enabling on-premise ASR/TTS/LLM deployments, ensuring data sovereignty for regulated industries while maintaining cloud-level performance; - Optimized GPU inference on NVIDIA clusters using FP8 quantization, achieving 5x performance improvement and 60% cost reduction; - Designed modular multi-agent architecture, multi-turn conversations, and SIP/WebRTC integration for seamless enterprise telephony deployment; - Built a microservices platform (Python/Go/Bun) on Kubernetes, handling millions of sessions across AWS/GCP/Azure with 99.99% uptime; - Implemented streaming pipeline integrating ASR, LLM orchestration, and neural TTS; - Stabilized development process through stra…

Head of Software Engineering | Voice First Ai Assistant

SberDevices

SberDevices is a tech company that makes some pretty cool stuff. We specialize in natural language processing, speech recognition, computer vision, biometrics, and smart devices. We've won some international design awards and have built an innovative e-commerce platform that uses voice assistants and smart devices to drive sales. The platform sees over 20k orders every day and has 800k active monthly users. Products: Salute Virtual Assistants, Smart Home, TV, online conference platform SberJazz (Zoom.us equivalent) and GigaChat (ChatGPT equivalent). I've built one of the most successful dev team in Russia (web, native, python, go), all from scratch. We've invented a bunch of cool technologies, set up a powerful CI/CD pipeline, and maintained bulletproof production. In the first two years, I grew the team to over 100 people (2.5k the entire staff). I've made 15 product teams and five platform teams that cover everything from performance assurance and product architecture to DevOps and i…

Search Architect | Large-Scale Technological Migration

Yandex

Led architectural transformation of Russia's largest search engine, serving 150M+ daily users, by orchestrating a complex migration from proprietary technology to a modern web stack, maintaining zero-downtime operations, and improving performance metrics. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Architected and executed a multi-year migration strategy for Yandex's search results platform, transitioning from proprietary technology to a React/TypeScript stack while serving 150M+ daily active users without service disruption; - Designed and implemented new technological architecture for search results rendering, achieving 40% improvement in page load times and 25% reduction in server costs through optimized resource utilization; - Integrated modern technology platform with search engine's core infrastructure, solving complex compatibility challenges through custom abstraction layers and gradual migration patterns; - Built a comprehensive A/B testing framework enabling data-driven decision m…

Founder & Cto | Design-to-Code Platform

The Protein Corp.

Founded and led technical development of an innovative design-to-code platform that revolutionized the designer-developer workflow, enabling real-time bidirectional conversion between Sketch designs and production-ready code across multiple platforms. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Architected and built groundbreaking technology that automatically converts Sketch components to production-ready code and vice versa in real-time, reducing design-to-development time by 80%; - Developed proprietary parsing engine supporting multiple output frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, iOS, Android), enabling teams to maintain a single source of truth for UI components; - Implemented atomic design methodology as a core architecture principle, creating a hierarchical component system that ensured consistency and reusability across the entire design system; - Built real-time collaboration features enabling designers and developers to work synchronously, eliminating traditional handoff bottlenecks a…

Senior Engineering Manager | Digital Banking Transformation

Alfa-Bank

Led large-scale digital transformation initiatives at Russia's largest private bank, serving 22M+ corporate and 1M+ retail clients. Spearheaded the development of next-generation online banking platforms while building and scaling high-performing engineering organizations. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Built and scaled 20+ development teams from inception, growing the engineering organization while establishing hiring processes, onboarding programs, and technical excellence standards; - Mentored and developed 50+ engineers through career progression, established technical competency frameworks, and implemented engineering excellence programs; - Co-created Russia's first comprehensive design system in partnership with Lebedev Studio at Alfa-Lab innovation department, standardizing UI/UX across 100+ digital products and reducing development time by 50%; - Leading migration from legacy monolithic systems to modern microservices architecture serving millions of concurrent users; -…

Ruby On Rails Developer | Telemedicine & Equipment Rental Platforms

M-Group

Engineered full-stack solutions for high-impact telemedicine and construction equipment rental platforms, delivering scalable applications that connected healthcare providers with patients and streamlined B2B equipment logistics. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Built an end-to-end telemedicine platform with features enabling secure video consultations between healthcare providers and patients, supporting HIPAA-compliant communication for 2K+ monthly consultations; - Developed architecture using Rails, handling 10K+ daily requests with ~100ms response times and maintaining 99.9% uptime; - Designed MongoDB database schemas optimized for document-based workflows, reducing query complexity and improving data retrieval speed by 45%; - Integrated real-time video calling functionality using WebRTC, ensuring low-latency communication with automatic failover capabilities; - Created responsive front-end interfaces using BEM methodology, achieving consistent UI/UX across devices and reduci…

C# Developer | Crm Platform

BigInform

Developed and optimized a cross-platform CRM solution serving 200+ users across the organization, delivering seamless experiences on both desktop and web interfaces. Key Achievements & Responsibilities: - Architected and implemented isomorphic components enabling native Windows desktop functionality while maintaining full web compatibility for cross-platform accessibility, reducing codebase complexity by 40%; - Optimized SQL Server performance through advanced query tuning and indexing strategies, achieving 60% improvement in response times for critical business operations; - Designed and maintained robust data access layers using Entity Framework and stored procedures, ensuring data integrity and security across all platform instances; - Collaborated with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions, improving user adoption by streamlining workflows; - Implemented comprehensive SQL Server configuration and maintenance protocols, including…

Education

Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)

Engineer's Degree, Information Technology

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