# Oleg Shorin

> Digital transformation leader

- Canonical page: https://shorin.me/en/about/
- Page language: English

## Who am I?

I am a business leader with strong IT expertise

## My superpower

I can bring digital technology to things that were never designed to be digital

## My roles

- **Executive**: I have served as CIO, CDTO, and CEO of major companies and rank among Russia’s top 10 CDTOs
- **IT professional**: I worked as a systems programmer at a major international software company
- **Entrepreneur**: I founded and successfully grew my own software development company
- **Investor**: I co-own a global SaaS car rental aggregator
- **Researcher**: I hold a Candidate of Sciences degree in engineering, have authored more than 30 research papers, and serve on Rospatent’s Scientific Council
- **Speaker**: I regularly speak at congresses, forums, and conferences
- **Visionary**: a strategist with broad experience and a big-picture perspective
- **Athlete**: a member of the Moscow State University handball team
- **Volunteer**: I organize deliveries of children’s books to African countries
- A loving husband and father of a wonderful daughter

## My achievements in numbers

- Developed the technology platform for distributed cooperation within the National Electronic Library, providing access to more than **150 million** works
- Introduced AI into search algorithms for an online catalog (over **12 million** records) and automated book summarization (over **800,000** digitized works)
- Migrated a major company from **26** separate information systems to an integrated platform without interrupting operations, consolidating more than **12 million** previously disconnected documents
- Led the development and scaling of a cloud car rental platform covering **2.5+ million** locations in **214** countries from **117** suppliers, while maintaining an SLA of **99.99%**
- Developed software to integrate **33 million** documents, reducing duplicate detection time from **32 million** years to 90 hours
- Designed my own programming language and wrote its interpreter

## How I can help

Developing and implementing a company’s digital transformation strategy, identifying key digital initiatives and the actions needed to deliver them:

- Managing the changes that come with adopting digital technologies while maintaining ongoing operations and management processes
- Researching the market and analyzing key trends in digital business solutions worldwide and in Russia
- Managing project portfolios and overseeing every stage of delivery
- Designing architectures and processes for managing data and knowledge, and building a portfolio of digital products and services
- Analyzing and improving business processes to increase operational efficiency
- Planning and managing digital project budgets and monitoring execution
- Evaluating the results and effectiveness of digital projects and identifying opportunities for improvement

## On a serious note

If you believe digital transformation is essential to growing your business but are unsure where to start, take the first step — [email me](mailto:Oleg.Shorin@gmail.com)

[My portfolio](https://olegshorin.com/en/)