iris.ai
Senior Product OwnerLeading product strategy and delivery for AI-powered enterprise solutions, bridging customer needs, business objectives, and engineering execution.
Product · AI · Infrastructure
Turning complex
technology into
business impact.
I'm Vasil Shivachev, Senior Product Owner at iris.ai. Before that, I spent 20 years running IT operations, infrastructure and DevOps teams.
01 / Impact
A track record built around outcomes.
Results from my roles at Kasha and Identrics.
10K+users per minute on infrastructure I architected at Kasha
80%cloud cost reduction at Kasha
€2M+in EU co-funded projects led at Identrics
92%of manual work automated with AI/NLP at Identrics
02 / Experience
From infrastructure to strategy.
A career spanning operations, DevOps, AI, delivery, leadership and the business side of technology.
Kasha
Head of IT OperationsLed IT operations, infrastructure, security and cross-functional technology teams. Built automated environments, scaled cloud infrastructure, delivered compliance and drove major cloud-cost optimization.
Identrics
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COO / Head of Operations & Technology
2017 – 2024
Ran company-wide operations and technology in an AI-focused organization. Led engineering, data, DevOps and project teams, plus AI initiatives and EU-funded programmes exceeding €2M.
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DevOps Engineer
2017 – 2018
Built CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation for AI product development.
A Data Pro
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Head of DevOps & Infrastructure
2020 – 2021
Led the transformation from bare metal to Proxmox and hybrid cloud, built the DevOps team and introduced CI/CD, environment separation, monitoring and infrastructure standards.
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Head of IT Operations, PM & QA
2018 – 2021
Led IT operations, project delivery and QA while building teams and introducing Agile delivery, governance and automation across business-critical initiatives.
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Reset Computers
Co-Owner & Operations ManagerBuilt hands-on experience in entrepreneurship, retail operations, P&L management, recruitment, customer relationships and running a technology business.
03 / Selected work
The problems I like solving.
The common thread: make technology useful, scalable and understandable to the people who depend on it.
Infrastructure for high traffic
I architected and ran a microservices platform that handles 10,000 users per minute, and led the migration from DigitalOcean to Google Cloud with zero downtime.
From bare metal to hybrid cloud
I moved the company from bare-metal servers to Proxmox virtualization and a hybrid cloud during the COVID-19 transition, so the whole organization could work remotely and securely.
Research workflows turned into products
I delivered AI/NLP use cases such as adverse media entity detection, which automated up to 92% of previously manual work.
Certified for enterprise customers
I built the security and compliance foundations and delivered PCI DSS v4 Level 1, ISO 27001:2022 and SOC 2 certifications.
04 / How I work
Technology is a team sport.
Connect the dots
Business goals, product needs, technical constraints and customer reality belong in the same conversation.
Build for reuse
Prefer platforms, patterns and processes that make the next delivery faster instead of reinventing every solution.
Make it measurable
Scale, cost, reliability, automation and customer outcomes are better signals than activity alone.
05 / Public voice
AI should move fast. Accountability should move faster.
Interviews, talks and articles on AI, disinformation and technology accountability.
I care about the space between what AI can do and what organisations are ready to take responsibility for.
06 / Contact
Have a difficult technology problem?
Let's talk about AI, product, infrastructure, operations, or the organisational mess sitting between them.