Tim Tikhomirov

Paphos, Cyprus

Tim Tikhomirov

Head of Analytics at Mercuryo

Data strategy AI transformation Fintech

I lead analytics and data engineering teams, and I hold them to one standard: good data should catch something moving while it’s still small, before it’s obvious to everyone else.

Seven years of building the foundations that make that possible — warehouses, event pipelines, experimentation frameworks — and the teams who own them.

Tim Tikhomirov standing by a mountain lake with autumn larches behind him

What I do

What drew me into analytics was how close it sits to real decisions. You take a question that starts out vague, give it structure, and at some point the next step just becomes clear. Years in, that moment still feels exciting to me.

Analytics leadership

Building and scaling teams, setting clear ownership, and putting in the operating rhythm that makes delivery predictable instead of heroic.

Data platform & engineering

Warehouses, event pipelines and BI that people actually trust — fast enough that nobody works around them.

Experimentation & pricing

A/B frameworks, competitor analysis and dynamic pricing, wired closely enough to the business to move margin.

AI in practice

Getting AI tooling into daily engineering work, and staying honest about which judgement calls it still cannot make.

Though I’m aware how it can sound from the outside:

ever since i was young i wanted to transform unstructured data into actionable business insights
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Featured

The best data does more than look backwards. It shows you what’s about to move.
Mercuryo interviewed me on early trend detection, building a data culture, and the line between what AI now handles and the judgement calls it still can’t make. Read the interview

Experience

  1. Jan 2025 – Present

    Limassol, Cyprus

    Head of Analytics Mercuryo

    Highlights

    Leading the analytics and data engineering teams, and shaping the company’s data strategy.

    • Built event analytics from scratch on GCP — BigQuery and Cloud Run for collection, Mixpanel for customer analytics.
    • Improved median response time in BI systems 10×, and led the warehouse migration from Exasol to StarRocks.
    • Launched an A/B testing framework and streamlined how the company runs experiments.
    • Doubled monthly resolved analytics requests in six months while improving delivery speed 50%.
    • Scaled the team, introduced clear ownership models, and established team leads for both data engineering and data analytics.
    • Moved the team from Kanban to sprints, improving delivery transparency and reducing friction between teams.
    • Drove adoption of AI-powered coding and automation tooling.
    • Took part in external regulator audits and raised reporting standards.

  2. Nov 2020 – Dec 2024

    Tbilisi, Georgia

    Head of Analytics ZION Development

    Highlights

    A player-coach role spanning data architecture, product pricing and decision-making.

    • Built a team of four analysts, most of whom stayed with me over three years; the team averaged 5.8 out of 6 in 360 reviews.
    • Mentored two analysts from junior to middle and middle-plus.
    • As pricing lead, used competitor analysis to grow B2B purchases up to 3×.
    • Built a dynamic pricing MVP for both B2C and B2B that added roughly 20% margin.
    • Our BI dashboards still serve 2,000+ monthly views across every business department.
    • Acted as the bridge between business and engineering, and was primary designer on MVPs reaching over 200,000 monthly active users.

  3. May 2019 – Oct 2020

    Tbilisi, Georgia

    Data Analyst / Analytics Engineer ZION Development

    Highlights

    Laying the groundwork for a data-driven culture.

    • Built the analytics warehouse that still acts as the main source of data for most of the company’s decisions.
    • Created a competitor analytics system using API collection and web scraping.
    • Built real-time automated analytics from scratch and automated KPI reporting for business departments.
    • Developed GAAP-based financial reporting for cryptocurrency operations.

  4. Apr 2018 – May 2019

    Web Analyst / SEO Digital marketing agency

    Where the analytics habit started — search, traffic and content, measured properly.

Education

  • BSc Business Informatics, North-West Academy of Public Administration (2014–2018), graduated with honours.
  • Certified in Advanced SQL, Python and statistics for financial analysis, and database internals.

Projects

daily-health-coach

A self-hosted pipeline that pulls my WHOOP recovery, sleep and strain data alongside Yazio nutrition, then has Claude write a short, grounded daily briefing and a weekly digest with charts — delivered to my phone over Telegram.

It started as a spreadsheet: bloodwork PDFs, genetic raw data and WHOOP exports parsed into one workbook. Once the static version existed, the obvious next step was making it live.

  • PowerShell
  • Claude
  • WHOOP API
  • Telegram

Off the clock

Tim Tikhomirov playing an acoustic guitar

I play guitar and piano — what I reach for when a problem needs to sit unattended for a while. Two of my own compositions:

The rest of my curiosity tends to end up pointed at my own data — which is how the health-coach project above went from a folder of medical PDFs to something that messages me every morning.

English (full professional) · Russian (native)

Contact

Always happy to talk analytics leadership, data platforms, or where AI is genuinely earning its place in a data team.