Sergei Vasilev

Engineering Team Lead · Solution Architect · AI Engineer

Belgrade, Serbia · open to relocation in EU

About

I solve hard engineering problems — at any level of the stack.

Give me a business problem and I'll turn it into architecture. Give me an architecture and I'll build it myself. Over 11 years, I've taken 10+ products from whiteboard to production — working side by side with founders and CTOs to shape both the technical vision and the business logic behind it.

Currently Python Practice Lead and Team Lead at Dualboot Partners, delivering for US clients across real estate, healthcare, aerospace, and fintech. My work spans Temporal-orchestrated AI pipelines with OCR and RAG, to cloud-native infrastructure handling billions of records. Previously built Dualboot's Balkan Tech Center from 4 to 18+ engineers across Serbia and Montenegro.

Open to senior engineering roles, consulting, and projects worldwide.

What I do

Engineering Leadership

Practice & team lead for cross-functional teams of 4–18. I set technical direction, define standards, run hiring, and keep delivery consistent — without losing touch with the code.

Solution Architecture

I translate business problems into architecture. Microservices, async APIs, cloud-native infra on AWS/GCP — designed to scale from day one, not bolted on later.

AI / LLM Engineering

End-to-end AI pipelines: OCR, RAG, vector search, prompt orchestration, embeddings, evals. I build systems that process real documents, answer real queries, and run in production.

Full-stack & 0→1 Delivery

I work hands-on at every layer — backend, frontend, mobile, infra. Brought 10+ products from whiteboard to production, side by side with founders and CTOs.

Selected Projects

Lobby CRE / Thirty Capital

CRE intelligence platform serving 400+ US real estate organizations. Architected backend infrastructure processing billions of records — complex ETL across dozens of data formats, multi-source financial aggregation, and hundreds of thousands of reports per month.

US Car Wash Management Platform

Built end-to-end from 0: backend APIs, customer-facing web app, mobile app, and full cloud infrastructure. 350,000+ active users. Stripe-powered payments and subscription management.

Aerospace AI

LLM pipeline for a precision manufacturer supplying NASA, commercial aviation, and defence. Automated ingestion and parsing of technical specs, compliance documents, and engineering artifacts — replacing weeks of manual processing.

Document Intelligence

Temporal-orchestrated AI pipelines for high-volume batch processing of bankruptcy filings, mortgage docs, risk reports, and financial Excel data. OCR, multi-class classification, and structured extraction at scale.

AI Dev Assistant

Analyses codebases and business artifacts to auto-generate epics, tasks, user stories, and use cases. Cuts requirements-to-ticket cycle from days to minutes.

Healthcare Staffing Platform

Backend for a US hospital network HR system — nurse recruitment, credential verification, and shift management across multiple hospital facilities.

Crypto Sports Betting

Real-time odds engine with multi-wallet and multi-token support, automated settlement, and live event streaming. Built 0→1 with the founding team.

Stack

PythonFastAPIDjangoTemporalAWSDockerTerraformPostgreSQLRedisMongoDBQdrantLangChainOpenAI APIReactTypeScriptCeleryGitHub Actions

Experience

Dualboot Partners 6 yrs · Remote
Python Practice Lead Nov 2024 – Present
Executive Director, Balkan Tech Center Aug 2022 – Apr 2026
Python Team Lead Sep 2021 – Present
Python Developer Jul 2020 – Sep 2021
Kronstadt Group 4 mos · Remote
Senior Software Engineer Apr 2020 – Jul 2020
Peller.Tech 3 yrs 4 mos · Hybrid
Full-stack Developer Jan 2017 – Apr 2020
DZ Systems 9 mos · On-site
PHP Web Developer May 2016 – Jan 2017
Simtech Development 8 mos · On-site
PHP Developer Oct 2015 – May 2016
Alfa-Bank 2 mos · On-site
Technical Support Engineer Feb 2015 – Mar 2015

Education

Ulyanovsk State University 2010 – 2015
Flagship university of the Ulyanovsk region · founded 1988 · top 85 in Russia Specialist · Computer Science in Economics
Ulyanovsk State University 2010 – 2015
Specialist · Finance and Credit

Languages

Russian Native
English B2 / C1
Serbian B1