About

Graduated top of my class in Mechanical Engineering, minored in Applied Mathematics. Spent years working as a scuba diving instructor in different countries — the kind of job where you learn to trust your body and your breathing in situations where the margin for error is real. Lived in Russia, the US, Southeast Asia, all over. Worked in Silicon Valley with most of the major tech players there. Built ecommerce brands, mobile applications, marketing agencies. Worked in sales, in engineering, in business coaching. For the last fifteen-plus years, the through line has been building companies — and these days it's mostly AI: agents, automation, product development. I run a studio with a team and I still think in funnels and product specs. That part of my brain never turned off and I don't want it to.

Thirteen years ago, in the middle of all that building, my body started doing things my mind couldn't explain. What I later learned was a kundalini awakening didn't ask permission and didn't wait for a convenient time. My marriage ended. My identity — as a man, as a Russian, as someone who had it together — dissolved. Not on a mountaintop. While I was trying to keep a business running and figure out what the fuck was happening to me.

What followed was thirteen years of serious practice. India, ashrams, Buddhist monasteries. Pranayama, somatic trauma work, self-inquiry, the Hawkins Letting Go method, tools from traditions and teachers most people wouldn't recognize. I wasn't doing any of it as a hobby. I was trying to survive what was happening. And I kept doing it because what was happening turned out not to be a breakdown but a process — one with stages and a structure and a direction that nobody had named for me at the start.

The whole time, I kept building. Kept running businesses. Kept raising my daughter. Kept paying rent. Both tracks ran in parallel. Neither stopped for the other. That turned out to be the training for everything I do now.

Along the way, I started studying the maps. George Boyd's Continuum of Consciousness — I train directly with Boyd, and his is one of the most detailed maps of inner development I've encountered. David Hawkins' Map of Consciousness. The Theravada Buddhist model of fetters and stages of awakening. Human Design. The Enneagram. None tells the whole story alone. Together, cross-referenced against thirteen years of firsthand experience, they work less like instruments and more like a wide-angle lens — a way to get oriented about where someone is across a few dimensions at once, and what their stage might actually be asking for. Which is almost never what they think it's asking for.

I live in Bali with my wife and daughter. I'm 41. I have ADHD, which means when I'm on, I can move mountains, and when I'm not, I can't find my keys. I still build AI products and run ecommerce brands. I still sit with my own teacher. That's not a disclaimer. It's the qualification. The work doesn't end — what changes is how clearly you can see.

I work in English and Russian. The Russian-speaking world, especially the expat community, has a massive unmet need for this kind of work — smart, driven people going through deep inner shifts with almost no framework for what's happening. I know that world from the inside. It's where I came from.