About Me

My name is Oleg Shorin

Some facets of my multifaceted professional identity:

Executive leader: served as CIO, CDTO, and CEO in large organizations; ranked among the Top 10 CDTOs in Russia
IT professional: worked as a system programmer in a major international software company
Entrepreneur: founded and successfully scaled a software development company from scratch
Investor: co-owner of a global SaaS car rental aggregator
Researcher: PhD in Engineering, author of 30+ scientific publications, member of the Rospatent Scientific Council
Speaker: regular speaker at congresses, forums, and industry conferences
Visionary: strategist with broad exposure and a true helicopter view
Athlete: member of the MSU national handball team
Volunteer: organizer of children’s book donations to African countries
A devoted husband and father to a wonderful daughter

Some results I am genuinely proud of:

Designed the distributed interaction technology platform for the National Electronic Library, providing access to more than 6 million works
Introduced AI into search algorithms for an online catalog with over 12 million records and automated book summarization for more than 800,000 digitized works
Migrated a large enterprise from 26 disparate information systems to a unified platform with zero downtime, consolidating over 12 million fragmented documents
Led the development and scaling of a cloud-based car rental platform featuring 2.5+ million locations across 214 countries from 117 suppliers, achieving an SLA of 99.99%
Built a software system to integrate 33 million documents, reducing duplicate detection time from 32 million years to just 90 hours
Created a proprietary programming language and implemented its interpreter

Designing and executing a company’s digital transformation strategy, defining key digital initiatives and the roadmap to deliver them:

Change management during digital transformation while ensuring continuity of core business operations and governance
Market research and analysis of global and Russian trends in digital business solutions
End-to-end portfolio and project management with full lifecycle oversight
Designing data and knowledge architectures, and building a portfolio of digital products, services, and platforms
Analysis, optimization, and improvement of business processes to increase overall operational efficiency
Defining and managing digital transformation budgets, with control over execution and outcomes
Assessing results and effectiveness of digital initiatives and identifying opportunities for improvement

If you believe your business needs digital transformation to grow, but are unsure where to start, take the first step — get in touch with me.