Aleksei Grishchenko

AI Solutions Architect · Agentic Systems · Automation

AI Solutions Architect and Automation Lead with 20+ years in IT, spanning embedded C++, infrastructure, enterprise Java, and applied LLM systems. I take AI solutions from process audit to production: agents, MCP integrations, RAG, evaluation, human-in-the-loop controls, and CI/CD.

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Achievements

  • 20+ years in IT across embedded development, infrastructure, enterprise backend, and applied AI
  • 7+ years in Java development, technical leadership, and architecture; led teams of 10+ engineers
  • Evolved a back-office platform serving 15,000+ stores and helped decompose a ~12,000-class legacy monolith
  • Reduced an enterprise build pipeline from 1.5 hours to 30 minutes
  • 2+ years designing and deploying LLM agents, including code review and acceptance workflows integrated with CI/CD
  • Founder and mentor of the non-commercial AI practitioner community “Hello, Neural Network?”

Experience

Self-Employed 2023 — Present
AI Solutions Architect / Automation Engineer
  • Design and deploy production agentic systems for enterprise clients, from process audit and prototype through rollout and team handoff
  • Build agent pipelines, RAG systems, and custom MCP servers over internal APIs and enterprise data
  • Integrate evaluations, LLM-as-judge, human-in-the-loop controls, observability, and CI/CD
  • Work with clients across LATAM, Israel, and international SaaS projects; selected case details are protected by NDA
X5 Jan 2018 — Apr 2023
Senior Java Developer / Team Lead / Architect
  • Evolved a back-office platform serving 15,000+ stores
  • Helped decompose a ~12,000-class legacy monolith into a modular monolith and later microservices
  • Reduced build time from 1.5 hours to 30 minutes and modernized the stack from Java 7 to Java 17 / Spring Boot
  • Designed a Spring Cloud store-update delivery system and developed event-driven flows with Kafka, SAGA, and orchestration
  • Led engineering teams of more than 10 people
Wellink Company 2016 — 2018
Java Developer
  • Developed the backend of an SLA monitoring and reporting platform
  • Worked with PostgreSQL data processing, Linux deployments, integrations, and network monitoring
ImportFrut Nov 2008 — Sep 2016
System Administrator / Infrastructure Engineer
  • Owned local networking, physical and virtual servers, storage, and POS infrastructure
  • Maintained reliability, backups, and security across Linux and Windows systems
BSKB Vostok Sep 2004 — Nov 2008
Software Engineer (C++ / DSP)
  • Developed embedded C++ systems for microcontrollers and contributed to digital signal processing R&D
  • Worked in an engineering R&D team of more than 20 people