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AI Governance & Compliance Architect (EU AI Act, GDPR)

Kas, Turkey
Only remote
Master of Science in Information Technology (MSc(IT))
Kas, Turkey
Only remote
Master of Science in Information Technology (MSc(IT))

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Olena Ohiienko_AI Governance & Compliance Architect_CV.pdf

About me

I possess 22+ years of interdisciplinary expertise at the intersection of end-to-end IT Product Development, AI Governance & Compliance, Innovation Evaluation & Startup Due Diligence, Business Growth & Pivot Advisory. I help build compliance-by-design AI products and prepare compliance documentation

ComplianceData GovernanceRegulatory RequirementsRequirements EngineeringRequirements ManagementGDPR
Selected experience
1. AI Governance & Compliance
  • Full-cycle EU AI Act compliance services from translating regulatory requirements into business and operational requirements to ensuring compliance-by-design AI products and Market & Investment readiness (please, find attached to the CV).
  • Proprietary frameworks for blind spot detection and technical-legal bridge establishment.
  • Built the technical-legal bridge across complex AI products and across business processes with AI tools, consistently uncovering critical regulatory blind spots—from underestimated risks of product AI features and inadequate translation of regulatory requirements into business and operational requirements to deep disconnects between actual product architecture and compliance requirements—preventing severe operational liabilities and multi-million-euro regulatory fines.
  • Delivered hands-on: from initial gap analysis down to engineering backlogs, technical controls, and comprehensive EU AI Act compliance documentation.
  • Track record in MedTech/Digital Health, HRTech, FinTech, EdTech, B2B SaaS.
2. Innovation Evaluation & Startup Due Diligence
  • 400+ startup evaluations over 8.5 years.
  • Conducted 50+ due diligence audits for AI and IT startups. Using a proprietary multi-dimensional framework, I validate whether an AI startup's investment story holds up across product, technology, commercial execution, IP and regulatory reality for AI HealthTech, HRTech, FinTech, EdTech, and B2B SaaS.
  • Evaluator: EIT Health InnoStars Awards (2024–2025). Member Expert Evaluator pool: Women TechEU, EUREKA, UNITE.
3. Business Growth & Pivot Advisory
  • 10+ years in new business development, new market entry, profit growth, full-cycle marketing, business advisory.
  • Multiplied profits for 20+ SMEs.
  • Deep insights from 3,000+ business use case analyses, allowing me to quickly identify bottlenecks and design pivotal transformations.
4. End-to-End IT Product Development
12 years in IT with full-cycle roles in SDLC: from developing B2B ERP systems with complex data exchange to managing high-security B2G product development.
  • In a Senior Business Analyst role created and managed business requirements and functional requirements for 50+ IT solutions.
  • As an IT Product Architect & Senior Software Engineer, designed 50+ end-to-end IT solutions (ERPs for SMBs and Tier-1 Enterprises).
  • As a QA Engineer, ensured quality assurance for Tier-1 Diamond Resorts PMS development and set up QA process from scratch - achieving a 10x reduction in bugs per release.
  • Managed the mobile app development department through its evolution, from the initial setup phase to a stable, functional business.
  • As a IT PM, managed the full-cycle development high-security B2G solution (mission-critical municipal platform, the core processing engine handled secure inter-agency transactions by integrating complex data-exchange protocols, cryptographic electronic digital signatures (EDS), and accredited access-key infrastructure)

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2018

Languages

EnglishFluentRussianNative speakerUkrainianNative speaker

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