Co-Founder & CEO · SIT Programming School
Co-Founder & CEO of SIT Programming School. I build computer science education programs for children and young people in Vietnam and Serbia.
Timeline
Co-Founder & CEO | EdTech | Vietnam, Serbia
Building fundamental computer science education in Serbia and Vietnam, with a focus on access to high-quality CS learning regardless of socio-economic background.
Founder | EdTech | Russia
Created and scaled a computer science education system for children, with curriculum focused on algorithmic thinking and competitive programming preparation.
The latest notes on education systems, AI, and building scalable learning
Three years in Vietnam: cohorts, outcomes, and retention show the school is ready to scale across Southeast Asia.
At Web Summit Rio 2025 the spotlight moved to AI-methodologists: systems that turn raw expertise into structured courses, assessments, and materials in hours.
I am the Co-Founder & CEO of SIT Programming School, a computer science education company operating in Vietnam and Serbia. In 2001, I founded a programming school in Moscow that grew over the following 20 years into one of the larger CS education programs in Russia. Students from that program earned over 100 medals at national and international Olympiads, including IOI, ICPC, and WRO.
In 2021, I moved from Russia to expand this work internationally. SIT Programming School now runs programs in Belgrade, Serbia and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The focus is on teaching programming fundamentals to children and supporting career-changers moving into tech, with tuition kept accessible.
My goal is to make high-quality computer science education accessible to children and young people in developing regions.
I focus on building scalable systems that create real educational opportunities regardless of geography or socio-economic background.
Four connected areas where I focus my work in global computer science education.
Quality access in developing countries, including Global South and low-bandwidth environments.
STEM access | Education equity | Affordable learning | Social impact
Educational operating systems, quality frameworks, operational discipline and teacher development.
Quality at scale | Teacher training | Learning operations | Outcome-driven education
Teaching fundamentals, algorithmic thinking and high-rigor competitive programming.
Algorithms | Problem solving | Competitive programming | CS fundamentals
AI as an engineering tool for personalization, data governance and measurable learning outcomes.
Personalized learning | Learning analytics | Mastery-based progression | Responsible AI