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SaaS · AI · Data platforms

KonstantinKomarov

I build the data and AI systems that agencies and product teams run on — ingestion, retrieval, and the operational scaffolding that keeps them honest in production.

Role
Staff / Head of Engineering
Based
San Diego, CA
Domain
Amazon Ads & e-commerce
Availability
Open to hybrid
Connect on LinkedIn

Selected work

What I've shipped

Platform

AI insights co-pilot for advertising

Took a retrieval-augmented assistant over Amazon Ads and sales data from concept to live. Analyst turnaround dropped from days to minutes, and teams answer their own questions now.

Pipeline

Agency-grade data ingestion

Productionized Amazon SP-API and Ads ingestions with governance, alerting, and SLAs — fewer manual interventions, predictable delivery.

Practice

An AI operating model

Built intake, evaluation, and go-live checklists with human QA gates, plus the training to go with them. Adoption spread across the org without the usual risk.

New business

Prototypes that win pitches

Turned working prototypes and cost benchmarks into pitch material, and shaped SOW language and staffing models to protect margin.

Career

Sep 2023 — Present

San Diego, CA

Senior Software Architect, AI & Data

Straight Up Growth

  • Functional lead for AI initiatives — turning briefs into production plans that actually ship.
  • Shipped a retrieval-augmented insights assistant, and defined the evaluation, rollout, and training around it.
  • Integrated Amazon Ads and SP-API at scale with alerting, retries, and cost controls.

Nov 2019 — Sep 2023

Remote

CTO & Senior Software Architect

DineSafe / IWasPoisoned (Y Combinator)

  • Owned multi-client delivery across martech and data products — scoping, resourcing, and production quality.
  • Built microservice and serverless architectures on AWS, cutting infra cost while raising deploy velocity through CI/CD and observability.
  • Backed new business with technical treatments, prototypes, and delivery plans.

Mar 2014 — Nov 2019

Kyiv, Ukraine

Lead Software Engineer

Innovecs

  • Directed cross-functional teams delivering enterprise web and data systems, with real code quality gates and performance budgets.
  • Designed resilient APIs and integrations; brought SRE practice in to reduce incidents.

Let's talk

Building something
data-heavy?

I'm open to staff and head-of-engineering roles in San Diego or hybrid. LinkedIn is the fastest way to reach me.

linkedin.com/in/konstantin-komarov