Ivan Matveyev

Technology consultancy specialising in EdTech and FinTech, delivering across tech vision, strategy, R&D, architecture, software development and delivery efficiency, project scaling, technology operations, and vendor management without lock-in.

Directed technology and innovation for a 1,500-person school community, leading a team of 6. - Defined a 5-year vision and roadmap targeting Level 3 technology maturity for the most innovative school within XCL Group. - Allocated a $1M+ technology and EdTech budget for the 2026 academic year. - Introduced SLAs, post-mortems, and process improvements across team roles and project management.

Owned technical program management for Grab Lending and Insurance - a 100+ person organisation across 6 countries in Southeast Asia, with 2 Technical Program Managers reporting directly. - Drove LMS consolidation: requirements, architecture, vendor selection, data migration. - Reduced cloud infrastructure costs by 25% through the "Cost to Serve" metric. - Designed and implemented a proof-of-concept AI-powered Collections Agent with a quality assurance loop.

Led a cross-functional team of 40 - technical product managers and engineers - across Singapore, Philippines, and Vietnam. - Architected GoBear's insurance brokerage platform (Car, Travel, Health). - Time-to-market improved 4x. - Led the technical side of AsiaKredit's acquisition by Grab (2021): GCP-to-AWS migration, 350+ compliance and cyber-proofing changes, vendor replacements. - Delivered 2x growth via a new instalment credit product for the Philippines market (2022).

FinTech consulting practice with engagements across Italy, Switzerland, Belarus, Moldova, Singapore, and Vietnam. - Delivered technical and product roadmaps for digital lending companies, insurance brokerage (GoBear), and multinational financial institutions. - Designed target IT architectures and business processes, including data lakehouse architecture for a multinational financial services enterprise. - Built enterprise performance analytics systems delivering real-time insights.

eWallets and payment services for Finstar.com companies in Europe, Russia, Georgia, India. In-house PCI DSS compliant card acceptance solution. Architecture, development, deployment and operation. Hands-on daily development and operations meeting the Business SLAs.

Business Development of PAY.ON AG services in Russia & CIS in position of an external Consultant, then (since June 2012) BizDev Partner Russia & CIS. Coordination with HQ in Munich, Germany. Accomplishments: - Integrations with top known payment methods in Russia. - Sales to Russian and Ukrainian PSPs. - PAY.ON is the best international processing platform for Russia and CIS.

Introduction of digital goods and services for Russian market such as airline tickets, extended warranty for 003.ru. Development of eBay and PayPal integration with 003.ru

Payment Service Provider for hospitality industry. Architecture, development, deployment, daily operations, legal support. Integrations with acquirers, cash acceptance points and Property Management Systems (PMS) for partner hotels.

Development and operation of the first Russian social e-commerce site Wishful Gifts: e-commerce platform for sending and receiving real goods gifts in social networks. Accomplishments: - Launched the first Russian social e-commerce site Wishful Gifts. - Gained 13 mln users in Odnoklassniki social network. - Gained 100 orders per day.

IT and business development of online eMoney payment system MoneyMail.