Rolling out agents
Moving engineering to working with AI agents: Claude Code and Codex in daily tasks, working rules, review and acceptance of results.
CTO · 15+ years in software
Mark Dermanov
I lead engineering and infrastructure and drive the AI transformation of the engineering team and the whole company.
Key areas
AI transformation of engineering and the companyAnalytics
Building analytics that shows what AI actually delivers: who uses agents and how, what it costs and where it pays off.
MCP hub
Connecting agents to work systems through MCP servers. The hub keeps them in one place, each with a ready-made prompt the agent uses to install it.
AI skills
Teaching the team to work with agents: practices, task reviews and internal guides, so everyone uses AI with confidence, not just enthusiasts.
Events
Talk notes →TeamLead Conf Siberia
Novosibirsk
Notes (RU) →Ontico C-Level club
“Adopting AI and measuring results”
Saint Petersburg
Saint TeamLead Conf
Saint Petersburg
Notes (RU) →Ontico C-Level club
“Roles in the age of AI”
Saint Petersburg
Saint HighLoad++
Saint Petersburg
Notes (RU) →Ontico C-Level club
“How C-level one-on-ones work”
Moscow
DevOpsConf
Talked about the AI revolution in teams. The new baseline is telling an agent by voice to go through MCP and get the task done.
Moscow
E-CODE by Ozon
Met Ozon's CTO and talked about adopting AI in engineering and whether to set targets for it.
Big Tech Night
Yandex and T-Bank offices, speed one-on-ones with the bank's leaders, talks on AI in engineering and how to measure its effect.
SOUTH HUB
Four days in the mountains. About 20 new CTO acquaintances, swapping experience of adopting AI.
Moving critical IT systems to the cloud
Timeweb Cloud business breakfast. The case is published on Timeweb's Habr blog.
Saint Petersburg
Earlier: Bitva za IT: the IT job market and hiring (panel, 2024) · HighLoad++ (2017, 2019, 2021–2024), TeamLeadConf (2019, 2021–2023), DevOpsConf (2021, 2022), SOUTH HUB (2024), #highload masterclass (2016)
Mentoring
I help engineers and new managers. Calls are booked via GetMentor.
- Starting a career in software: picking a direction and a growth plan
- Frontend and backend: PHP, JS, Node.js, Python, Go
- Infrastructure: Docker, GitLab, CI/CD
- AI for personal productivity and faster development
- Designing product teams
- Hiring developers, QA and DevOps engineers, and teaching others to hire
Side projects
Kniga v Uhe
An Android and iOS audiobook player on top of knigavuhe.org. Offline chapters, book series, sleep timer and a saved position for every book.
Audiola
An offline Android voice recorder that uploads to Google Drive. New recordings are transcribed on a GPU, and AI turns the text into notes.
How to chain a phone, cloud storage and local transcription into one pipeline.
GigaAM dictation
Voice input on a hotkey. The GigaAM-v3 model recognises speech locally on the GPU, and the text, already punctuated, is typed straight into the active window.
I compared T-one, Whisper and GigaAM on my own speech and kept GigaAM. It is faster on short phrases and adds punctuation by itself.
PDF → FB2
Converts typeset PDF books to FB2 and EPUB. There is a CLI with a Claude skill and an in-browser version that never uploads the file.
Keep the mechanics in code and leave the judgement to AI.
Path
Career
- 2018 —NaPopravkuJoined as head of development, now CTO: engineering, infrastructure, quality and AI in development.
- 2016–2018ARTWHead of development: hiring and processes.
- 2014–2016TRINET.GroupFrom middle to senior developer, first process improvements.
- 2012–2014Small web studioFirst steps in web development.
Education
- 2015–2017ITMO, master’s degreeProject management. Diploma with honours.
- 2012–2015Polytech, bachelor’s degreeThesis: a short-term rental web service.
- 2008–2011Polytechnic collegePascal, C++, a C# thesis. Diploma with honours.