Build the API organization
Creating the structures, practices, and technical path to expose core banking products through modern cloud services while respecting enterprise security, reliability, and governance.
AI-enabled API modernization
Andrey Malashenko
Technology executive at BMO with 15+ years building engineering organizations, modernizing banking platforms, and turning strategic ambiguity into durable delivery systems.
Selected operating proof from enterprise delivery: scaled engineering teams, managed large technology portfolios, and kept financial governance predictable under transformation pressure.
120+
Engineers led
$40M+
Portfolio managed
98%
Forecast accuracy
Current mandate
From mainframe gravity to modern API velocity.
Work that sits between platform strategy, engineering culture, and accountable delivery. The goal is not experimentation for its own sake; it is repeatable modernization with measurable operating leverage.
Scale AI-enabled engineering
Championing practical AI adoption across development workflows: agentic pipelines, stronger feedback loops, and engineering habits that improve throughput without weakening controls.
Keep delivery accountable
Pairing technical ambition with financial discipline, stakeholder clarity, and delivery mechanics proven across branch technology, digitization, and cloud transformation programs.
Experience
A leadership path through banking technology.
Progression from hands-on engineering to portfolio-level technology leadership, with a consistent thread: build the team, modernize the platform, and deliver the work.
Jan 2026 — Present
Director, AI-Enabled API and App Development
Bank of Montreal — Personal and Business Banking Products & Services Technology
- Building a new API organization to expose core mainframe banking products through modern cloud services.
- Championing AI adoption and efficiency across application development workflows.
- Establishing AI-enabled engineering practices and agentic development pipelines.
API modernizationAI
adoptionCloud-native
Mar 2022 — Jan 2026
Innovation Director, Branch Technology
Bank of Montreal — Personal and Business Banking
- Led Branch Technology Modernization, AWS Center of Excellence, and Enterprise Managed File Transfer programs.
- Drove digital innovation across retail banking while maintaining 98% financial forecast accuracy.
- Managed cross-functional engineering teams and strategic vendor relationships.
AWS CoEBranch
modernizationFinancial governance
Dec 2016 — Mar 2022
Senior Technology Officer
Bank of Montreal — Personal and Commercial Technology
- Scaled engineering teams from 1 to 50+ engineers with zero attrition.
- First at BMO to adopt OpenShift and AWS in retail banking.
- Delivered digitization programs via Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies.
- Managed a $42MM annual technology budget.
$42MM budgetCloud
pioneerZero attrition
Apr 2013 — Dec 2016
Senior Technical Specialist — Solution Architect
Bank of Montreal — Wealth Management Technology
- Owned architecture, forecasting, and estimates for the wealth management technology portfolio.
- Led technical governance across vendors and internal teams.
- Ensured BMO standards compliance and quality deliverables across programs.
Sep 2010 — Apr 2013
Senior Software Developer
Bank of Montreal
- Contributed to enterprise banking application development as a senior developer.
- Built the foundation for a 15+ year career in technology leadership at BMO.
Sep 2007 — Oct 2010
Senior Software Developer
Wirecard AG
- Developed financial technology systems at a global payment processing company.
Nov 2005 — Sep 2007
CTO & Co-founder
Road Runner Media
- Co-founded and led technical strategy and development for a digital media startup.
Feb 2004 — Oct 2005
Principal Developer, CTO & Co-founder
Infonet Ltd
- Co-founded the company and served as principal developer and CTO, building early technical and leadership foundations.
Expertise
Operating range for modern engineering organizations.
A mix of platform literacy, architecture discipline, and people systems for teams that have to deliver under enterprise constraints.
Cloud & infrastructure
AI & engineering systems
Leadership & delivery
Architecture & governance
Recognition
Signals of impact, consistency, and craft.
Selected recognition across enterprise delivery, innovation, cloud adoption, technical invention, and community contribution.
01
3× BMO Best of the Best
Recognized in 2011, 2017, and 2019 for exceptional leadership and delivery excellence.
02
Patent holder
US-20200272483-A1 — Systems and Methods for Validating Loading of Content on User Interface.
03
30+ quarterly top performer
Consistently recognized for outstanding performance and strategic contributions.
04
Cloud pioneer
First adopter of AWS and OpenShift at BMO, driving cloud transformation across retail banking.
05
Destination Digital finalist
BMO recognition for contributions to digital transformation initiatives in 2022.
06
Lil Babineau Club Builder Award
Gymnastics Ontario — 2024. Recognized for extraordinary volunteerism at Trillium Rhythmic Gymnastics.
Contact
Let’s compare notes.
Available for conversations about enterprise modernization, AI-enabled engineering practices, API strategy, and building durable technology organizations.
Projects
Products and experiments with practical utility.
Selected independent projects across AI memory, consumer finance, event tooling, and family software.
recalium.com
Portable AI memory.
A local-first memory layer for developers who use more than one AI tool. Recalium imports exports and files, extracts source-backed facts, indexes context, and exposes retrieval through MCP without locking memory inside one platform.
Long-running AI work only improves when the system can remember what happened, why decisions were made, what succeeded, and what failed. The goal is portable memory that helps future sessions learn from real activity instead of starting from zero every time.
- Activity memory: what was done, what result it produced, and which mistakes or successes should influence future work.
- People memory: user-controlled profiles for the actual user and the people the AI interacts with, including preferences, context, and relationship history.
- Project and communication memory: separate brain areas for products, decisions, conversations, documents, and cross-project context.
housecost.ca
Home cost clarity.
A Canadian calculator for the real monthly cost of ownership: mortgage, property tax, insurance, utilities, maintenance, condo fees, and rent comparison.
rsvpex.com
Private RSVP management.
Beautiful event RSVP pages with guest tracking, dietary needs, gift registry links, and private self-hosted data for events that need more than a spreadsheet.
starkystar.com
Family reward app.
An Expo and React Native mobile app for turning family routines into star-based motivation. Parents create recurring tasks, approve completions, manage rewards and multiple children; kids see daily tasks, star balances, and reward progress. The monorepo pairs the mobile app with Appwrite functions, shared TypeScript packages, privacy-focused pairing, and multilingual support.