Petr Konstantinov

CTO & Co-Founder | Head of R&D | Principal Engineer

hello@pitkonst.me +971-55-439-01-07 linkedin.com/in/petr-konstantinov Dubai, UAE | Remote US/EU

// Executive Summary

Technological Co-Founder and CTO with 15+ years of experience building EdTech, hardware, and video technology products from concept to global scale. Led Jalinga’s evolution from a hardware prototype to a SaaS + hardware ecosystem deployed in 450+ interactive studios across MENA, Europe and the Americas.

Expert in bridging hardware (embedded systems) and software (cloud, real-time video). Proven track record of designing and deploying production-grade applied AI/LLM systems, including custom agentic architectures, complex RAG pipelines, and local inference optimization. Adept at aligning deep technical R&D with overarching business goals.

// Professional Experience

Jalinga

CTO & Co-Founder
2015 — Present
Global EdTech company developing interactive video studios and glass-board technology.

Leadership & Strategy

01 Co-founded the company and defined the technology roadmap, transforming a hardware prototype into a global SaaS + hardware business with 450+ studios deployed across multiple countries.
02 Built the R&D organization from a solo developer into a cross-functional team of 10+ senior engineers and product managers, fostering a culture of ownership and near-zero turnover.
03 Led technical expansion into MENA and EU markets, supporting enterprise and university customers.
04 Implemented structured Agile processes and automated QA, achieving predictable release cycles and consistent quarterly roadmap delivery.

Engineering & Architecture

05 Designed and delivered a proprietary GPU-accelerated real-time video compositing engine enabling natural “teacher + content” interaction with sub-second latency and zero dropped frames.
06 Architected and launched the cloud platform jalinga.cloud for content management and AI-assisted presentation creation, creating a recurring SaaS revenue stream and improving reliability for distributed customers.
07 Built a WebRTC-based virtual classroom platform with a service mesh architecture, supporting large-scale concurrent sessions and resolving critical load and scalability issues.

Movicom

Head of Electronics Dept. / Lead Engineer
2009 — 2015
Robotic cameras for broadcast.
01 Developed hardware and firmware for stabilized camera heads and Robycam cable camera systems used at major sports events (Olympic Games, FIFA World Cup) under strict broadcast reliability and safety requirements.
02 Managed a team of electronics engineers, overseeing PCB design, embedded firmware (C/C++), and multi-axis motor control algorithms for robotic camera systems.
03 Delivered high-reliability platforms operating in harsh outdoor environments with millisecond-precision control, supporting numerous live broadcasts without critical failures.

// Independent Projects

whatic.io Live

Independent AI Initiative · In production
2026 — Present
An applied AI assistant for hardware engineers that recommends components backed by verifiable datasheet evidence. Built and deployed end-to-end to solve complex domain-specific retrieval and automation challenges.
01 Engineered a robust data ingestion pipeline for processing complex PDF layouts (IC datasheets) into structured, citation-ready formats.
02 Designed an agentic orchestrator over deterministic tool backends (vector semantic-search RAG, engineering calculators) that grounds every output in verifiable sources, sharply reducing hallucinations.
03 Deployed a cost-optimized, reproducible infrastructure for local open-weight LLM inference (vLLM, GGUF) on a single spot GPU without compromising privacy.
04 Established a rigorous, benchmark-driven evaluation harness for the entire AI lifecycle, selecting models and retrieval methods based on measured agent-loop reliability rather than intuition.

// Core Competencies

Leadership & Strategy

R&D strategy, hands-on architecture, team management, Agile, SDLC, hiring & mentoring, stakeholder management.

Architecture & Cloud

Event-driven architecture, service mesh, REST API design, AWS, DigitalOcean, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, GitLab CI/CD.

AI & LLM Engineering

Agentic orchestration & tool-calling, retrieval-augmented generation (vector semantic search), local LLM inference & optimization (vLLM, GGUF quantization), multimodal document extraction & ingestion, experiment-driven evaluation & benchmarking, open-weight models.

Video & Hardware

WebRTC, GPU acceleration (Direct 3D/NVENC), real-time compositing, embedded systems, touch-interface drivers.

Backend, Frontend & Security

Python, C#, TypeScript, C, .NET.
Security & Compliance: Data privacy, security reviews & audits.

// Education

Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU)

Master’s Degree in Electronics Engineering & Technology
Focus: Robotics, Embedded Systems

// Languages

English Advanced (C1)
Russian Native