Investigative video, OSINT and data analysis for independent media.

Independent media outlet focused on Belarus. I run production of video built on investigations.

• Lead a production and post-production team of 7+: editors, graphic and sound designers, camera operators, freelancers.
• Relaunched long-form on YouTube: from one film every two months to two films a month.
• Launched a new short format for a youth audience.

German-Russian independent documentary production.

• Produced 5 documentary films on YouTube: 2.5M+ views combined, one of ROMB's top 3 by views.
• Secured a co-production with Channel 4 (UK).
• Fundraising and administration: board and donor reporting, budgeting, negotiations; 75,000 EUR raised in the first 3 months.
• Built a pipeline of 5 AI models (speech-to-text, translation, text-to-speech) for English versions of the films. Translator time cut from 30 to 5 hours per hour of film.
• Ran focus groups with end users of the translated material.

Whisper · ElevenLabs · Gemini · Python · SQLite · Gradio

Fixer for Anna Conkling, a reporter at The Daily Telegraph (UK).

Non-profit opening kindergartens in developing countries, starting with Romania (400+ children).

• Budgeting, donor negotiations, media strategy.
• Built the website and the SMM team; ran contractor hiring at an event at Cornell University.

An AI chatbot for a live performance at an airline exhibition in Dubai.

• Coordinated a team of 4 against the client's on-request needs.
• Led the speech-to-text and text-to-speech integration and tuned a ChatGPT-based assistant.

Python · C# · Flask · OpenAI API · Unreal Engine 5

A VR guided tour of a real-estate project for exhibitions.

• Built and managed a team of 10 designers and contractors; delivered in 2 months, one month ahead of schedule.

Blender · C# · Unreal Engine 5 · Figma

A grassroots initiative that became the largest organisation in Ukraine dedicated to evacuating people in need.

• Launched 3 programmes: evacuation from Ukraine, evacuation from Russia, evacuation of cancer patients.
• Raised over 1,000,000 EUR in grants and business donations; relationships with major donors.
• Led the analytics team and IT: chatbot, internal software, data collection and analysis. Tracked KPIs (session duration, conversion) and ran user feedback loops.
• Negotiated special conditions with banks and with Snapchat, Meta and Google.
• Contributed to helping 45,000+ Ukrainians.

No-code platform for automation, data collection and analysis.

• Integrated visualization packages into the desktop app; debugging on back end and front end.

Scriptwriting, voice-over and post-production.

Coordinated 60+ volunteers in canvassing and election observation in the Admiralteysky district.

How a Belarusian opposition figure disappeared and who was involved.

Read in English · Watch in Belarusian

In two years of the full-scale invasion, Belarusian companies doubled their supplies to Russian arms manufacturers. BIC analysed supply data from 58 Belarusian enterprises to 41 Russian military-industrial plants.

Read in English · Watch in Belarusian

How Belarusian wood pellets were marketed to Europe in an attempt to circumvent sanctions. The trade data analysed also included a Polish company.

Read in English · Watch in Belarusian

A business built on importing Chinese motorcycles at undervalued prices: the equipment transited Russia, cleared customs in Belarus, and only then re-entered Russia.

Read in English · Watch in Belarusian

A short vertical format for a youth audience, launched at BIC (in Russian).

Example 1 · Example 2 · Example 3

Speech-to-text, translation and voice synthesis chained into one workflow that gave a Russian-language documentary outlet an English audience.

First place at a hackathon on data journalism.