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