Andrey Shlein

Andrey Shlein

Hi, I'm Andrey Shlein. For more than 15 years I have been building fraud prevention systems, payment processing platforms, and decision engines that help banks and fintech companies reduce risk, scale payment solutions and fight fraud effectively.

About

The future of anti-fraud is AI that thinks alongside the analyst. I'm building these products for banks today — from merchant checks to a real-time decision platform.

The Way of the Samurai

CEO & Founder

MIND Solutions
mind-analytics.ru

Working on a range of fintech projects made it clear that the market needed powerful new tools to manage risks in financial relationships with new and existing counterparties, covering anti-fraud, compliance checks and onboarding, with no equivalent available today. My team built and brought to market services for merchant onboarding and money mule detection, and developed a next-generation analytics platform that makes a wide range of decisions in real time using both traditional algorithms and AI tools.

Head of Development and Research

Solanteq
solanteq.ru

After successfully completing the project at my previous company, I took charge of product development for the Backoffice and Fraud prevention lines: a 12-person development team (Java, Kotlin, RabbitMQ) plus project teams for development, implementation, QA and support of up to 30 people. Under my leadership we built the SOLAR Deposits deposit system from scratch and substantially enhanced existing products: the financial accounting system, back office, invoicing and the anti-fraud system. We delivered several implementation projects at Russian banks ranging from the top 3 to the top 30, as well as international ones.

Chief Solution Architect

Consaltica
consaltica.ru

I applied my experience in setting up processes and running payment processing and decision-making systems to building our own product. As Chief Solution Architect and Product Owner, I led the development of a decision-making platform designed for fast processing of large data sets. The project included a no-code computation platform, an integration system, monitoring interfaces, charting and supporting tools. Under my leadership, a distributed team of 10–14 people designed the solution architecture, built the system from scratch and delivered the first version to the client.

Head of Fraud Prevention Department

Zenit Bank
zenit.ru

Led the Fraud Prevention Department (14 employees, two divisions) and built anti-fraud processes across all of the bank's business areas: card issuing, in-store and e-commerce acquiring, ATMs, retail and corporate digital banking, the Faster Payments System (SBP) and the core banking system. On the bank's side, led the rollout of a cross-channel anti-fraud system based on IBM Safer Payments, from business requirements and technical specifications through acceptance and load testing to production launch. Developed the anti-fraud methodology, assessed new bank products for compliance with anti-fraud policies, presented to senior management committees, and was responsible for reporting to the Bank of Russia (forms 203 and 258) and for regulatory compliance.

Chief Expert, Card Risk Control

Uralsib
uralsib.ru

Supervised the issuing-side fraud monitoring team for card transactions. Designed and implemented risk rules in OpenWay Way4 along with new monitoring rules and methods, tracked fraud trends and upgraded the risk management system. Coordinated digital banking security and the 3-D Secure rollout, and handled disputes and chargebacks under Visa and Mastercard rules, including Reversal, Credit and Cash-in transactions. Wrote internal policies and procedures on fraud prevention.

Monitoring Specialist

Bank of Moscow

My first job in banking, and in anti-fraud in particular. Back then, skimming was rampant, along with cross-border and domestic magnetic stripe fraud. Chip cards were only just being introduced and were still rare. Monitoring systems were simple and not very effective, so you had to understand the technical details, analyze data and make decisions fast. The changes I proposed to the monitoring system significantly improved the team's performance, and I personally prevented fraudulent transactions totaling more than 10 million rubles.

Education

MIEM HSE University
miem.hse.ru

Earned an engineering degree in Computer-Aided Design Systems from the A. N. Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics, now part of HSE University. My thesis focused on DBMS optimization for high-load systems.

Skills

  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Spark
  • Hazelcast
  • Camunda
  • Java
  • Kotlin
  • PostgreSQL
  • RabbitMQ
  • Docker
  • Ollama, LLM
  • IBM Safer Payments
  • OpenWay Way4
  • Anti-fraud and fraud monitoring
  • Decision-making system architecture
  • Cross-channel detection
  • AI and LLMs in anti-fraud
  • AI agents in software development
  • Card processing, ISO 8583
  • Product management
  • Team leadership
  • English — C1

Projects

AI in Compliance and Fraud Prevention

AI in compliance and fraud prevention

Language models in merchant screening: in the sample studied, the model dismissed keyword matches in 78% of checks.

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Merchant Inspector. Merchant Onboarding and Content Monitoring

Merchant Inspector

A platform that automates onboarding and monitoring of e-commerce merchants, detecting regulatory, reputational and fraud risks.

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Gazprombank. Fintech Accelerator

Gazprombank Fintech Accelerator

We presented Merchant Inspector, our platform for automated merchant onboarding and monitoring, at the Gazprombank Fintech Accelerator and finished among the prize winners.

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Analytic Platform. Real-Time Decision-Making

Analytic Platform

A next-generation decision-making platform: real-time anti-fraud, AI tools and a strong domestic alternative to foreign systems. Being deployed at Russian banks.

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Merchant Control. Fighting Illegal Casinos and Money Mules

Merchant Control

A service that uncovers illegal online casinos and money mule payment details. Already helping Russian banks.

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Zenit Bank. A Cross-Channel Anti-Fraud System from Scratch

Zenit Bank

Design and rollout of a unified real-time anti-fraud platform that brought all of the bank's digital channels together and enabled proactive, customer-level fraud risk control.

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Solanteq. Building a Deposit System

Solanteq Deposits

Development of a deposit module for retail products covering the full contract lifecycle: interest calculation and payout, personal income tax, early termination and integration with banking systems.

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Kaspi Bank. Anti-Fraud Platform Audit and Optimization

Kaspi Bank

Audit of a production anti-fraud system under high transaction load and recommendations for its architectural transformation: stability under load and faster rollout of new anti-fraud scenarios.

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Consaltica. Building a Modern Anti-Fraud Platform

Consaltica - Anti-fraud platform

A unified solution for data processing and analytics, real-time decision-making and cross-channel transaction control, delivering stable performance under high load and extensive scalability.

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Contact

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