2005 – 2015

Firefighter

MEng in Civil Engineering (Fire Security).

Shift Captain, then Deputy Chief of Brigade.

Ten years of operational firefighting, emergency command, emergency planning, and incident analysis. Over 2,000 hours — roughly twelve weeks of continuous time — in a breathing apparatus.

Commendations for rescue operations and clearing live WWII explosive ordnance.

Improved brigade ranking from fourteenth to #3 in Moscow City rescue operations.

Expert media commentary on major fire incidents and the fire service structure for Meduza (2019), The Moscow Times (2017), and Meduza (2023).

2012 – 2018

Economist

MPhil in Economics (International Economics and Business). PhD Candidate in Economics (ABD)

Teaching Assistant, Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.

Financial and Business Consultant

Taught International Economics and International Economic Organisations. Bachelor’s thesis supervisor.

Member of the Laboratory in International Economics of Prof Ruslan Khasbulatov. Member of the research group in Mathematical Modelling of World Dynamics under Prof Andrey Korotayev.

Developer of a market-making currency hedging system for a major Japanese-Russian trade corridor. The hedging system preserved the Client’s operational capabilities against the >27% currency devaluation while providing operational efficiency gains.

2017 – 2018

Barcelona School of Economics

MSc in Economics and Finance

Concurrent remote operation of the hedging strategy for the Japanese-Russian trade corridor Client throughout the programme.

Specialised in Quantitative Economic and Financial analysis and Machine Learning.

2019 – 2024

Corporate Governance & Valuations

NYU Stern Certificate in Advanced Valuation under Prof Aswath Damodaran.

ISS-STOXX Global Policy Board Member. Research automation Team Lead.

Over 2,500 cases from scratch to a vote recommendation. Directly responsible for high-profile complex special situations cases: M&A, proxy contests, governance restructurings, cross-border transactions.

Developed and deployed proxy research automation solutions globally.

Named presenter on Russian sanctions impact for ISS’s Global Proxy Season Preview.

Developed the due diligence framework, protocol, and automation for sanctions tracking across the company’s research output that didn’t flinch on surnames transliterations.

2025 – Present

Independent

Belgian citizen, based in Brussels

Partnered with JobYourself Cooperative, Brussels.

https://gksquared.com — Institutional-grade proxy support, valuations, and equity-based compensation engineering.

https://deeplateralist.com — The manifesto, the taxonomy, the research. You’re here.

Anatomy of Reinvention — a podcast about people who burned their map and drew a new one. Coming soon.

[Rebel Mathematics](link TBD) — Mathematics for adults from zero. First principles, then formulas.