Dmitry Kalinchenko

Dmitry Kalinchenko

Strategist & Builder

Boulder, Colorado, United States

I'm a product and market strategist who uses latest AI tools to turn strategy into working software to enable rapid feedback and iteration cycles from external customers and internal stakeholders.

About Me

I work at the intersection of strategy, research, and product—helping teams make sense of complexity and turn it into clear, actionable opportunities. I use the latest AI tools to move from insight to working prototype faster than traditional cycles allow.

My background includes a decade in management consulting, working on early‑stage corporate ventures and market research. I've operated across B2B, SaaS, enterprise, and emerging‑tech contexts—often in ambiguous environments where there's no playbook and a lot on the line.

Core skills: AI‑native product development, competitive intelligence automation, qualitative & quantitative research, executive storytelling, opportunity framing, JTBD/ODI frameworks, and systems thinking.

Off the clock: I live in Boulder, Colorado, where my high‑energy toddler, Micah, and our equally turbo‑charged Vizsla, Layla, keep my step count high. Weekends are usually a mash‑up of bike rides, ski outings, trail runs, and scouting the next must‑try craft brewery with my wife Agatha.

What I Do

AI-Native Product Development

Rapidly prototyping and deploying custom web applications and data analysis tools using AI‑assisted coding environments (Cursor, Claude Code). Recently shipped FoxHire.AI.

AI-Enhanced Research & Synthesis

Leveraging LLMs to ingest and synthesize vast amounts of qualitative data, classifying unstructured inputs to accelerate pattern recognition and strategy formation.

Strategy & Insights

Practitioner of Jobs‑to‑be‑Done, Outcome‑Driven Innovation, TAM/SAM modeling, business case development, competitive intelligence, and GTM strategy.

Executive Storytelling

Distilling complex technical and strategic insights into visually compelling, decision‑ready narratives understood by executive stakeholders.

Projects

FoxHire.AI - Job Search Augmentation Platform

FoxHire.AI identifies the actual hiring manager behind every job posting, researches what you have in common, and drafts personalized outreach that gets replies—not silence.

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Key Features:

  • Hiring Manager Identification: AI-powered research identifies the actual decision-maker behind each job posting
  • Shared Background Analysis: Surfaces mutual connections, experiences, and interests for authentic outreach
  • Draft Outreach Generation: Crafts personalized messages referencing specific shared context
  • Pipeline Management: Track job applications from discovery through outreach and response

Technical Architecture:

  1. Built with Claude Code: End-to-end development using AI-assisted coding
  2. Anthropic API: Powers research synthesis, hiring manager identification, and outreach drafting
  3. Apify Web Scraper: Automated data collection from job postings and professional profiles
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OptiMind - AI-Powered Product Comparison

OptiMind is a browser-based product comparison tool that helps you make better purchase decisions using AI-powered analysis and weighted criteria. Compare products objectively with intelligent insights—all data stays private in your browser.

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Key Features:

  • AI-Powered Comparison: Get smart suggestions for product criteria, features, and objective evaluations
  • Privacy First: All data stays in your browser—no server, no tracking, no accounts needed
  • Visual Analysis: Beautiful charts showing product rankings, feature comparisons, and detailed scoring
  • Easy Sharing: Share product comparisons via URL without any backend or data storage
  • Product Templates: Pre-built comparison templates for electronics, appliances, software, and more
  • Multiple Export Options: Export comparisons to JSON, CSV, or Markdown format

Technical Architecture:

Built with modern web technologies for performance and privacy:

  1. Completely Client-Side: No backend required—all processing happens in your browser using vanilla JavaScript
  2. AI Integration: Leverages AI APIs for intelligent product analysis while keeping your data local
  3. Progressive Web App: Works offline and can be installed as a native-feeling application
  4. Custom Domain: Professional deployment at optimind.space
  5. URL-Based Sharing: Share product comparisons via encoded URLs without server-side storage

OptiMind demonstrates how AI can augment product comparison and purchasing decisions without compromising privacy. By keeping all data in the browser, it eliminates security concerns while providing powerful analysis capabilities for comparing products objectively.

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Professional Experience

Sr. Manager, Market Research & Strategy
Verizon Connect

Jan 2025 – Apr 2026
  • Built competitive intelligence automation suite: on-demand competitor research tool, agentic AI-driven newsletter distributed to 500+ stakeholders (n8n + DeepSeek LLM), and RAG-enabled chatbot for competitive Q&A
  • Created briefs analyzing market size (TAM/SAM), growth (CAGR) and technology trends including LLMs and GenAI
  • Packaged findings into C-suite narratives; regularly brief SVP responsible for $700M+ ARR line

Sr. Manager, Strategic Insights
Verizon

Feb 2023 – Jan 2025

Built and led skunk-works team translating chaotic B2B customer data into product bets for 5G-enabled software.

  • Created an LLM-powered framework to capture, categorize, synthesize, and package insights from B2B customers into a searchable database of 2,000+ customer problems
  • Partnered with stakeholders to drive product roadmaps, marketing, sales strategy and GTM activities
  • Led monthly insights webinars with 100+ attendees

Innovation Manager
Verizon New Business Incubation

Nov 2021 – Feb 2023

Identified market gaps and drove strategy for net new top-of-the-network software businesses leveraging Verizon's 5G and mobile edge compute assets.

  • Incubated supply-chain-transparency POC leveraging 5G + computer-vision AI; secured first pilot customer
  • Facilitated ideation workshops generating 120+ ideas; introduced criteria-based scoring rubric to rank opportunities

Lead Product Owner
Lumen Technologies

Apr 2020 – Nov 2021
  • Led agile squad building exec KPI dashboards and delivered monthly KPI readouts to SVP-level stakeholders
  • Instituted value-decomposition framework adopted across 6 product teams

Senior Associate
Strategyn

May 2019 – Nov 2019

Ran innovation programs leveraging qualitative and quantitative, survey-based, data-driven research (Outcome-Driven Innovation) to understand customer needs and develop product strategy for Fortune 500 CPG & MedTech companies.

Consultant | Analyst
The Inovo Group

Mar 2014 – Apr 2019

Ran innovation pipeline development programs using structured approaches to generate 100s of early-stage ideas and down-select to well-developed strategies for client execution.

Project Manager / Scrum Master
HookLogic

Jun 2013 – Dec 2013

Ran Scrum ceremonies, groomed backlog and did product management work for a 9-person dev team.

Consultant | Business Analyst
Enovio LLC

Sep 2010 – May 2013

Consulted several companies in construction, utility and higher ed sectors on matters of process improvement and cost-cutting.

M.S. Information Science
University of Michigan School of Information

2012

Specialized in turning unstructured data into actionable insights through modern information systems.

B.A. Economics & Sociology
University of Michigan

2010

Graduated with dual majors, laying the foundation in economic analysis and human-centric research.

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