Roman Belov

Technical Founder & AI Product Engineer

Building products at the intersection of AI and automation. 1.5 years in full-time AI engineering: LLM orchestration, agents, production-ready apps.

Before that — CMO, 10+ years in marketing and product. ex-Yandex, OZON, VK. I understand business logic, I build like an engineer.

Currently — JourneyBay (AI-first travel planner) and helping businesses implement AI into real processes.

Stack

ai-coding: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Antigravity, Opencode, Lovable
ai-infra: Langfuse, LiteLLM, LightRAG, Neo4j, Qdrant, Flowise
llm: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, Perplexity
auto: n8n, Supabase Edge Functions, Cloudflare Workers
dev: Flutter/Dart, TypeScript, Python, SQL/PostgreSQL, Deno, Astro
infra: Supabase, Appwrite, Docker, Cloudflare, GitHub, OVHCloud, Contabo, Netcup
monitoring: Grafana, Zabbix, Metabase, VictoriaMetrics, Sentry, PostHog, Google Analytics, Yandex Metrika
security: Cloudflare WAF, Vaultwarden, fail2ban, Let's Encrypt, GuardrailsAI, LLM Guard
project ops: Outline, Linear, Notion, Miro, Obsidian, Joplin, Figma, Telegram, Slack, Zoom, Google Meet, NTFY, Backblaze, Yandex Cloud
data: Playwright, Crawl4AI, Brave Search
visual: Bubble.io, FlutterFlow, Tilda

Experience

Founder & CEO, AI Product Engineer @JourneyBay 2024 — now

AI travel assistant — itinerary planning, POI scoring, real-time recommendations

Fractional CMO 2023 — now

Project-based CMO expertise. Strategy, growth, launches — for startups and companies

Founder & CEO @Haven Machines Co. 2021 — 2024

Hardware startup, 2 products from idea to market

CMO @Refocus 2022 — 2023

EdTech #1 Philippines, revenue +71%, 23-person team

Head of Growth @Yandex 2021 — 2022

Kinopoisk, 700k+ new users, ARPPU +17%

Head of Promotion & Content @OZON 2020 — 2021

GMV +75%, 22-person team

Head of Performance Marketing @VK 2018 — 2020

Citymobil, 3M+ new users, rides x20 growth, expansion to 20 cities

Education

HSE University 2018 – 2021

Bachelor of Science in Economics

National Research University "MPEI" 2012 – 2014

Master of Science in Thermal Power Engineering and Heat Engineering · Graduated with Honors

National Research University "MPEI" 2008 – 2012

Bachelor of Science in Industrial Heat Power Engineering

Courses

Chief Operating Officer · Eduson

Understanding and Managing Risk · The Open University

Business Models in Strategic Management · The Open University

Product Management · Yandex

Management Skills · OZON

Team Management · VK

Mentoring

Helping entrepreneurs, specialists, and managers navigate marketing, people management, project management, finance, product strategy, and business growth.

ADPList · TOP-100 Product Management Mentor
GetMentor · Product, AI & business mentoring
Solvery.io · Expert consulting sessions

Reviews

"That was one of my best sessions with him. We talked about marketing, MVP, design, VCs, and he helped me a lot in all of them. I think that he can improve my startup well with his good experiences in this area. I recommend him to you as a great mentor."

Armin Palizian 🇮🇷

CEO, Arnoya

"I had great and insightful discussion with Roman about career especially in marketing function. He gave ideas how to accelerate business with strategic marketing to bring significant business growth."

Duma Evi, EMBA 🇮🇩

Chief Business Officer, ESADE & Aalto

"Loved the call with Roman. Roman knows a lot about marketing and he gave me some new perspective on how I can improve my marketing strategies and measure my funnels. 10/10."

Orel Zilberman 🇮🇱

Solopreneur, Software development

"Solid expert in b2c marketing."

Max Volokhoff 🇩🇪

Chief R&D and Investment Officer, Mitgo

"Roman had a very collaborative attitude. From the start, he was very kind and made me feel comfortable. He was able to give me precise recommendations on where to focus my efforts, explaining the reasons why I should do so. I’m leaving the call with more clarity."

Alan Longo 🇦🇷

Performance Psychologist, UADE

"His amazing communication skills made complex concepts easy to understand, and his deep subject knowledge was evident throughout our discussion. Roman’s exceptional problem-solving abilities helped me navigate challenges effectively."

Boris Lifatov 🇮🇱

Head of Marketing, Tech | Web3 | AI

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