Open to AI-native product roles

Sergei
Khaletsky.

AI-Native Product Manager / builds agentic pipelines hands-on

15+ years in IT — 11+ engineering, 5+ leading product. I ship SaaS & platform products — multi-tenant, APIs, RBAC — and I build the AI myself in Claude Code: agentic, skill-based pipelines that are document-grounded (RAG), human-in-the-loop, and output-verified. Based in Vilnius.

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15+ yrs

in IT — 11+ engineering, 5+ product

10+

platforms & products led end-to-end

5–25

people in teams & stakeholder groups led

3–4×

faster spec → delivery with agentic AI workflows

About

15+ years in IT — 11 as a software engineer, 5+ leading product — across SaaS platforms, marketplaces, and enterprise systems: multi-tenant architectures, backend APIs, distributed systems, RBAC, observability. I've led 10+ platforms end-to-end, working with teams and stakeholder groups ranging from 5 to 25 people — including migrating fragmented legacy systems into a unified platform serving multiple business units.

What's rare in 2026: I don't just direct AI tools, I build AI-native products with my own hands in Claude Code — agentic, skill-based pipelines that are document-grounded (RAG), human-in-the-loop, and output-verified. A PM who ships and engineers the AI.

“…he has always played a role far beyond a Product Manager… He excels at product strategy, planning, and systems thinking, while also being deeply grounded in the development process. This rare combination makes him an exceptionally effective product leader.”

Mikita Zenchanka — colleague across multiple initiatives

Selected work

Things I've built & shipped

A 44-skill AI product I build by hand — backed by a decade of enterprise-scale platform delivery.

01 AI-Native Builds

Founder Apr 2026 — present

SKalora

A startup-validation product I design & build end-to-end in Claude Code

A plugin of 44 composable skills with a two-tier architecture: a core 5-stage validation pipeline — analysis → report → investor lens → Q&A prep → commercial offer — plus orchestration skills that compose specialists into client-ready packages. It turns a single raw pitch into structured, client-ready output.

AI AgentsRAGHuman-in-the-loopEvalsClaude CodeSkills/Plugins

Document-grounded (RAG) — reasons over the client's real materials, not model memory
Human-in-the-loop — explicit checkpoints on the judgment calls AI shouldn't make alone
Output verification — structural checks & diffs vs source docs catch silent agent failures
Building in public — early pilot runs with hands-on user feedback

02 Startup Products

Senior Product Manager 2025 — present

Sole PM · end-to-end SEAL Group · venture studio

AutoPlovykla

Multi-tenant B2B/B2C platform · automotive services

Owned AutoPlovykla end-to-end as the only PM at a venture studio: driver booking plus POS & marketing tools for car-wash operators, live across multiple Lithuanian cities. Also run AI product ops for the group — agentic, Claude-based workflows from spec to tracker-ready tasks.

spec → tasks ~1–2h → ~20min (3–4×)6 role types (RBAC) · 6 integrationsrepeat orders ~15% / ~7% · +500 installs/mo

Product Manager 2023 — 2025

Owned strategy & execution, both sides

Joiner App

Consumer marketplace & SaaS · event organizers ↔ attendees

Owned strategy and execution across marketplace and platform for both sides — permissions, event management, notifications, analytics — with a tight A/B-testing loop against real drop-offs.

onboarding conv. +31%MAU +42% · retention +8pp · drop-off −15–20%5–7 experiments/mo · cycle time −35%

03 Enterprise & Scale Track Record

Product Manager Jan 2021 — Dec 2024

Owned the platform end-to-end EPAM Systems

Community Platform

Hub for all of EPAM's internal communities · global enterprise

Owned the community platform hosting all of EPAM's internal communities, serving thousands of users. Systematically optimized discovery and engagement flows, and launched a Telegram bot as a new content-distribution channel.

retention +10%Telegram bot +5–8% participationthousands of users

Product Manager Oct 2019 — Jan 2021

Owned end-to-end EPAM Systems

Events Platform

Event attendance, reporting & participation

Automated event-attendance calculation and reporting to full coverage across event types, and drove consistent NPS growth for event managers through iterative platform improvements.

participation conversion 2×avg participants +20%NPS growth · full coverage

Product Owner Jun 2018 — Oct 2019

Product owner, end-to-end EPAM Systems

Conference Mobile App

Mobile app for EPAM's largest internal tech conference

Product owner for the mobile app uniting thousands of EPAMers, customers and global partners. Shipped live networking and engagement features bridging the in-person and in-app experience.

thousands of attendeeslive networking features↑ user satisfaction

Side build

Hocus Feedback

QR-rating + gamification · 8 auto-detailing locations

Scan a QR → rate the service → spin a wheel of fortune; happy customers get nudged to Google Reviews, winners claim a prize. Shipped hands-on: Next.js 15, Supabase/Prisma, tri-lingual (LT/EN/RU), Vercel with a daily cron.

8 locations3 languagesreviews + retention loop

Experience

Career track

May 2025 — Present

Senior Product Manager · SEAL Group UAB

Product lead for AutoPlovykla at a venture studio building B2B/B2C SaaS platforms and marketplaces; also running agentic AI product ops for the group.

Apr 2026 — Present

Founder · SKalora

A startup-validation product I design and build end-to-end in Claude Code — a 44-skill, RAG-grounded, human-in-the-loop pipeline. Remote.

Dec 2023 — Apr 2025

Product Manager · Joiner App

Consumer marketplace and SaaS connecting event organizers and attendees; owned activation, retention and the experiment loop.

2018 — 2024

Product Manager · EPAM Systems

Community, events and conference platforms in a global enterprise — distributed teams, executive reporting, thousands of users.

Skills

Where I'm strong

AI-Native Product

Agentic workflows & orchestrationRAG / document-groundedHuman-in-the-loopPrompt & context engineeringSpec-driven developmentOutput verification & evals

Technical PM

SaaS & platform productsMulti-tenant architectureProduct strategy & roadmappingPRDs & technical specsOKRs0→1 & live iteration

Systems & Data

Backend & distributed systemsAPI design & integrationsRBAC / ACLIdentity & auth (OAuth/SSO)ObservabilityA/B testing & analytics

Leadership

Cross-functional executionDistributed teamsExecutive communicationERP / CRM / payment integrations

Tools & stack

Claude CodeClaude APIMCPClaude Skills & PluginsCursorFireflies → Obsidian (RAG)GCPAWSFirebaseSupabaseVercelDockerREST · WebhooksOAuth / SSOSQLAmplitudeGA4BigQueryLooker StudioLinearJiraFigmaNotion

Writing

Selected publications

LinkedIn Jan 2026

2026: Product, AI & People — Where the Industry Is Actually Going

As AI democratizes building, the bottleneck moves from how to build to what's worth building. “AI without product thinking is noise.”

CIO.com Nov 2025

The Hidden Costs of Premature Scale — and How to Avoid Them

Why growth stresses systems beyond infrastructure — and how metric hygiene, not vanity numbers, keeps scaling from breaking a product.

Also

Teaching, mentoring & community

Lecturer, Product ManagementTeachMeSkills · 2023–24
Mentor & jury, startup & student hackathonsongoing
Speaker & organizer, product / BA meetupsongoing

What people say

In their words

…a pro, who carries 11 years of experience in IT, Business Analytics, and Product Management.

Marija AbdelhalimBrand Strategist · worked together at Joiner App

Without you, the product couldn't have become what it is today. You've been the driving force behind its evolution.

Alex SipkevichCo-founder, Joiner App · was Sergei's manager

Contact

Let's talk product & AI

Open to AI-native product roles. Fastest way to reach me is email.

sergei.khaletsky@gmail.com

Email me LinkedIn +370 690 24097

SergeiKhaletsky.