Artem Astapenko
Founder & CEO, AgentArea
I build infrastructure for autonomous software agents: the runtime, the governance, and the unglamorous parts that decide whether any of it survives production.
Let's collaborate/Work
AA.Docs
/Previously
Airbyte
Opstrace
Aleph ZeroIronChain Capital
IronChain CapitalDigital-asset investment
MithrilX
MithrilXSister firm to IronChain
/Speaking
On agent-native organisations
Teaching
Product University
Central University
School 21
AI Talent Hub, ITMO
Moscow Innovation Agency/Education
ITMO University
AI Talent Hub
Applied AI and ML engineering, taken at product pace rather than seminar pace. Now also mentoring there.
2024 – 2026Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Moscow Institute of Physics and TechnologyTechnological Entrepreneurship
The other half of the job: business models, go-to-market, and why good technology loses.
2024 – 2026/Note
“An agent is an intern in an unfamiliar office.”
Thirteen years building software end to end: architecture, infrastructure, backend, frontend, and the operational aftermath. Thirty-odd products from zero, ten of those years as a founder. The label that fits worst is specialist; the one that fits best is generalist who ships.
Right now that means AgentArea, a control layer for autonomous agents, so an agent fleet becomes something you can govern, audit and trust instead of something you hope behaves. Alongside it sit ConstrAct and AA.Docs, which put the same thinking to work on renovation estimates and document approvals.
Before that I worked at Airbyte, the Y Combinator-backed open-source data integration company, and on Aleph Zero, Opstrace, IronChain Capital and MithrilX. High-load distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, web3 infrastructure. Together those companies raised north of two hundred million dollars.