# About Me

> I combine CEO and CDTO experience with a background in software development and entrepreneurship. I turn digital strategy into working solutions: unifying disparate systems, implementing AI, and scaling products while keeping operations running. My experience spans the transformation of major public institutions and the development of international SaaS services.

- Name: Oleg Shorin
- Role: Chief Digital Transformation Officer
- Canonical page: https://olegshorin.com/en/about/
- Page language: English

## Introduction

My name is Oleg Shorin

I am a business leader with deep IT expertise

My superpower is putting complex, non-digital-native systems onto solid digital rails

## My Roles

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 Computer Science, 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

## Impact in Numbers

Some results I am genuinely proud of:

- Designed the distributed interaction technology platform for the National Electronic Library, providing access to more than **150 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

## How I Can Help

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.

## Documents

- [My CV (PDF)](https://olegshorin.com/files/en/OlegShorin-CDTO-en.pdf)

## Professional and academic profiles

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/oleg-shorin)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/OlegShorinCDTO)
- [Blog](https://shorin.me)
- [Dzen](https://dzen.ru/olegshorin)
- [VK](https://vk.com/oleg.shorin)
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@oleg.shorin)
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- [Rutube](https://rutube.ru/channel/79030983)
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1951-5321)
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_tYsG5Fmt3AC)
- [Web of Science](https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/KIC-7234-2024)
- [eLibrary](https://www.elibrary.ru/author_profile.asp?authorid=243879)
- [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/oleg.shorin)