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October 31, 2023
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CTO Hitchhiker's Guide to R&D
2025
Ukraine
🧭 Andriy Fisunenko (Vice President in R&D at Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine) shared his journey — from low-level programming and railway projects for Ukrzaliznytsia to global tech leadership at a major international company.
Highlights from the conversation:
- What R&D looks like at Samsung: focus areas, scale, types of teams and products
- The path of an engineer growing within the structure — from the first project to combining Director and CTO roles
- How internal culture works: discipline + freedom = a creative challenge
- Why large companies fuel a startup mindset — launching new products and technologies within massive organizations
- The role of a tech leader in building independence, trust, and accountability
This meetup was a field guide to navigating the R&D galaxy — equipped with structured thinking, a love for C++, and a deep understanding of people.
Meetup speakers
Vice President in R&D @ Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine
Andriy Fisunenko – MD in Theoretical Physics, PhD in Computer Science. Leading HW/SW R&D since 1997. In 1997-2008 worked mainly on Ukrainian railways' independence of legacy USSR systems. Currently, for almost 15 years, he has been heading R&D in Samsung R&D Institute Ukraine.
Director of Engineering @ Turnitin
The moderator is Yana Mykhailenko, CTO of Turnitin, an international company that ensures the integrity of education and is a leader in anti-plagiarism solutions. She is a judge and mentor at international competitions and hackathons.
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