Vasil Kulakov
VP of Engineering · Former CTO · MBA

AI transformation, built on engineering discipline.

AI-native delivery systems, designed and run in production — on top of 20+ years in software and 14 leading teams as VP of Engineering and CTO. Hands-on enough to validate the architecture, the code and the production model.

Vasil Kulakov

Selected work

200 → 5k
Users in 3 months AI-native delivery: specialized agents worked through GitHub Issues while architecture and acceptance stayed human-owned. Load-tested at 20k RPS. snappyloop
5 → 40
Engineers scaled Engineering scaled from 5 to ~40 — product trios, hiring, Scrum, remote ops. Homeapp
6 mo
Award-winning modernization Internal “Best Client-Oriented Product” award, won through the tech-stack modernisation and improved product stability with an SRE approach: observability, clean automated processes, blameless culture. CHECK24
<1 ms
Open-source LLM gateway Effort-based routing, fallbacks, spend caps and local GPU nodes in a single Go binary — grown out of snappyloop. Keystone

Companies I’ve worked with

Bumble CHECK24 Homeapp Infourok
Pernod Ricard
Samsonite
Renault
vialytics snappyloop
Balance
DSL
Creara

In their words

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Exceptional as team lead and as a developer. He prioritised his team’s well-being and was always willing to go the extra mile.
Michael Erhard
Michael Erhard — Bereichsleiter, CHECK24 · managed Vasil directly
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Under his leadership the department grew from 5 to 15. He took the product to MVP quickly and established Agile/Scrum and a full delivery lifecycle.
Andrei Romashin
Andrei Romashin — Frontend Engineer, Homeapp · reported to Vasil
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An exceptional team leader who delivers high-quality projects on time and fosters a positive, inclusive team.
Gergely Tőkési
Gergely Tőkési — Team Lead, CHECK24 · reported to Vasil
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Committed to the goal even under a tight deadline — passionate about coding, with a calm, can-do attitude every company should be happy to have.
Belma Herenda
Belma Herenda — Team Lead Software Developer, CHECK24 · worked across teams