Alexander Gostev

AI Program Manager

Beetroot

May 2022 - Apr 2025 (3 years)

Solution oriented boutique firm with HQ in Stockholm. I led technical product leadership in AI for Scandinavian and EU clients. A dynamic environment with focus on technology solutions. • Created business case for a targeted intent classification model addressing 80% of customer inquiries at 35% of cost for a Norwegian retail client considering an expensive chatbot. • Delivered enterprise AI assistant built on AWS Bedrock + Anthropic + RAG that securely connects to internal knowledge bases, which served 10,000+ requests in the first month. • Delivered cloud spend forecasting model achieving 94% accuracy across multiple cloud providers. It powered both B2B SaaS product calculations and user-facing ROI calculator. • Implemented topic reco

Senior Program Manager / Product Director

QArea

Dec 2016 - May 2022 (5 years 6 months)

A software development company with 350+ developers, and ambitions to create and promote a product ecosystem for engineering metrics and work efficiency. I led the creation of the product organization and 5 product launches. • Led DS/ML efforts with CRISP-DM methodology, training proprietary models for SAST and static code analysis that scanned 1.3B LOC. • Delivered proprietary AI code quality assessment system analyzing 6 programming languages, by developing customized ML models with language-specific evaluation criteria and GitHub analytics. • Delivered GenAI functionality that generated reports with statistics for engineering orgs on gaps and inefficiencies in software development workflow. It's one of the most used B2B SaaS features.

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Product Manager

Bitok Ltd.

Sep 2014 - Dec 2016 (2 years 4 months)

An early mover in Web3 market (blockchain, decentralized tech) with top-skill in-house tech talent. High pace work environment with an emphasis on empowerment and collaboration. • Launched 2 products that delivered positive ROI during 2 years by managing an agile roadmap with GIST model, OKRs for target setting and KPIs for performance monitoring. • Grew a crypto-currency exchange from 0 to top-6 in the world by USD/BTC transactions by managing a 4 people team, creating growth experiments, measuring impact of product ideas before scaling. • Conducted hands-on research campaign with current customers. Proactively gathered 500feedbacks, validated 4 customer personas, added 47 ideas to the backlog (with ABC priorities). • Increased revenue

Software developer

Glitch

Feb 2012 - Jul 2014 (2 years 6 months)

Former Fog Creek Software Creators of Trello, FogBugz, CityDesk and other project management tools. I started with HTML and CSS and quickly move to backend, then to tech ownership. • Backend programming in Java (Spring, Maven, MySQL DB, SQL) resulted in ongoing development of logic to support the platform extension which enabled adding new features, transferring storing data securely. • Developed onboarding flow that was the entry point for user onboarding of a platform. Constant A/B testing of improvements made it possible to add 1.1 % to conversion rate which increased bottom line by a 5-digit number.

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