Iurii Uses: #Leadership

As COO, I worked closely with Iurii, who led our IT department with rare clarity and ownership. He consistently turned business needs into reliable technical solutions, improved our infrastructure, and kept delivery predictable even under pressure. Communication was straightforward, priorities were transparent, and results were measurable. I'd gladly work with him again and strongly recommend him.

We had a small in-house dev team and no one senior enough to make the hard architectural calls. Hiring a full-time CTO didn't make sense at our stage, so we brought Iurii in two days a week. Within a month he'd untangled the deployment process, sat in on hiring interviews, and helped the team push back on a feature request from sales that would have cost us six weeks. He treats the role like a partner, not a consultant billing hours.

We'd just raised and needed to double the engineering team fast, but nobody internally had hired at that scale or owned the architecture decisions that came with it. A full-time CTO was a six-month search we didn't have time for. Iurii held the role two days a week in the meantime — he set up the interview loop, sat in on the senior candidates, killed a rewrite the team was quietly drifting toward, and made the infrastructure call before it turned into a fire. When we finally hired someone permanent the handover took a week because everything was already documented. He ran it like an owner, not a consultant billing hours.

I'm a non-technical founder and I'd been making technology decisions by guessing, which was getting expensive. Iurii joined as a fractional CTO one day a week and the difference was immediate — he set up a sane roadmap, vetted two contractors I was about to overpay, and translated what the dev team was telling me into plain language so I could actually make calls. He's not there to write all the code; he's there so I stop making the wrong bets.