Volodymyr Prokopyuk
CTO | Principal Architect | Payments Architect
Building trusted relationships to drive long-term business IT strategy
Defining next-generation target architectures for financial services
Leading engineering teams through innovation toward digital excellence
Languages
- English fluent
- Spanish fluent
- Ukrainian mother tongue
- Russian native
Industries
- Instant and cross-border payments
- Credit cards, clearing, and reconciliation
- Content protection, security, and compliance
- IT consulting and strategic advisory
- Travel, leisure, and hospitality
- Fitness, health, and wellness
I am a self-motivated senior IT leader with over 16 years of proven high-intensity IT experience across diverse industries including financial services, instant and cross-border payments, core banking, credit cards, content protection, travel and leisure. I build trusted business relationships with clients to drive long-term business IT strategy based on trust, values, strong commitment, effective and transparent communication. I have contrasted experience in business IT strategy advisory, risk management, enterprise architecture, and digital transformation programmes gained from leading financial services organizations (BBVA, Santander, Diners Club) and top-tier IT consultancy firms (Icon Solutions, Kairos, TCS). I hold a proven track record of leading global, diverse, cross-functional, and distributed engineering teams through technical innovation toward digital excellence. I demonstrated strong focus on customer satisfaction from the definition of their business IT strategy to the delivery and support of their mission-critical systems
Key capabilities
- Strong customer focus and trusted client relationships
- Business IT strategy advisory and risk management
- Enterprise architecture and digital transformation
- Effective mediation between business and engineering
- Technical leadership and effective communication
- Technical mentoring and coaching of engineering teams
- Design and delivery of modern, scalable payment systems
- Standards-compliant, cloud-native security solutions
- DevSecOps design and implementation of IAM solutions
- Blockchain architecture and smart contracts development
- Self-motivation, learning mindset, continuous innovation
- Efficient time management and results-oriented execution
Employment
CTO, Principal Architect
Worked as a CTO and a Principal Architect on the next generation smart fitness platform for Stadami, the leading global smart fitness platform that connects top-tier trainers with clients worldwide
Senior Payments Architect
Worked as a Senior Payments Architect on the next generation instant payments framework IPF for Icon Solutions, the leading global provider of instant payments technology and mission-critical banking solutions for tier 1 global banks and payment service providers worldwide
Cross-border Payments Platform Architect
Worked as a Cross-border Payments Platform Architect on the next generation cross-border payments and foreign exchange platform PagoFX for Santander, the multinational commercial bank and financial services company
Team Lead, Security Architect
Worked as a Team Lead and a Security Architect on the content protection anti-piracy response platform Armada for NAGRA, the global leader in digital security, conditional access, and convergent media solutions
Solution Architect
Worked as a Solution Architect for the leading Spanish IT consultancy
Solution Architect
Worked as a Solution Architect on the full digital transformation of the credit card business core system for Diners Club Spain, the charge and credit card international company
Solution Architect
Worked as a Solution Architect for the leading international IT consultancy
Technical Lead
Worked as a Technical Lead on the next generation Salesforce CRM intelligent integration for Iberia, the flag carrier airline of Spain
Frontend Architect
Worked as a Frontend Architect for the leading Spanish IT consultancy
Frontend Quality Architect
Worked as a Frontend Quality Architect on the next generation global banking mobile application for BBVA, the international Spanish banking group
Senior Software Engineer
Worked as a Senior Software Engineer on global flight reservation services and travel agency back office business applications for Amadeus, the major international IT provider for the global travel and tourism industry
Education
Master of Business Administration, MBA
Master of Informatics Engineering, MSc
Master of Science in Computing Systems, MSc
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, BSc
