Irvine, California
AI-native product manager who ships conversational AI that completes real transactions — not just answers. Irvine, California.
The full site is at romanov.app. A longer plain-text summary is at /llms-full.txt.
Owns a net-new conversational money-transfer channel inside WhatsApp: an LLM drives the conversation while identity, payments, fraud and compliance run through deterministic flows the model hands off to. Zero to 100,000 users in its first half-year after an early-2026 launch, and Ria's fastest-growing new channel.
Also replaced a third-party platform in that channel's critical path with an in-house build, cutting infrastructure cost by 90%.
AI-native hotel commerce infrastructure — an MCP transaction layer that lets a traveler search live availability and confirm a booking without leaving an AI conversation. Built the first OpenAI-approved hotel booking experience to complete reservations inside ChatGPT.
AI real estate marketplace with a reinforcement-learning recommendation engine.
Wound down in 2024 — a completed 0→1 that reached real usage.
Cross-border e-commerce connecting US and EU retailers with CIS markets.
Management consulting at BIC Group (2019), and sales & trading at Aton Investment Group, an independent investment bank (2017 – 2018).
Turning AI conversations into completed transactions in regulated domains — payments, identity, compliance, and the deterministic handoff for everything the model must not decide. He has built that twice, at Ria and at Sigtrip. Unusual for a product manager: he writes production code and submits PRs alongside his engineering teams, and his contribution activity is public.
Strongest in applied AI and agents, fintech and payments, travel and hospitality, marketplaces, and consumer AI products, and open across industries wherever AI has to act rather than only answer — healthcare and life sciences aside. He is targeting senior or staff product roles that are AI-first and genuinely technical.
He holds an EAD and requires no visa sponsorship, now or in the future.