Anton Bondarev Istochnik Solutions Inc.
What is Istochnik? In Russian, istochnik (источник) is the word for a source of fresh, mountain, spring water. It's often used as a metaphor for the source of knowledge and new beginnings. It's also the name of my first elementary school, where my educational journey began.

Vancouver, BC, Canada
Fixing the broken.
Engineering the new.
Automating the routine.
Resume
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Industry experience
Capital Markets
CPG
Banking
Consulting
Academia
Agritech
Real Estate
Healthcare
Sports
F&B
Recent AI Projects
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The StandardAI knowledge base answering staff operational questions from company standards and guides.

Grounded answers from company standards and management guidance.

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Distinguished Performance AwardsEmployee recognition nominations with structured forms and automated HR email summaries.

A complete nomination workflow with structured submissions and automated reporting.

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Private Investment PortalPortfolio management platform for a private credit lender, with a borrower-facing view.

Secure lender and borrower views bring deal and portfolio work into one system.

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Artigiano AnalyticsAI-narrated sales, menu, and staffing analytics for a chain of 25+ coffee shops.

Turns millions of sales records into practical menu, labour, and location insights.

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Knightsbridge HomeCompany homebase with role-restricted access to each portfolio company's performance data.

A secure operating hub connecting reporting and tools across portfolio companies.

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Cafe Labour AllocatorForecast-vs-actual labour and cost tracker guiding weekly schedules across a cafe chain.

Supports weekly scheduling decisions and highlights measurable staffing savings.

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Artigiano ScoutAI wholesale partnership scout for a coffee roaster, finding and scoring nearby prospects.

Finds, scores, and helps contact promising wholesale partners near any location.

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MaintainX Priority BoardManagement priority board for maintenance work orders, synced live with MaintainX.

Gives leaders a focused view of urgent work orders, ownership, and progress.

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Hiring Assessment ToolCandidate assessment with automated scoring and behavioural profiles emailed to HR.

Standardizes candidate evaluation and sends concise behavioural profiles to HR.

Skills Stack
AI & LLMs
Business Analysis
Data & Backend
Finance & Credit
Automation
Visualization
Enterprise Systems
Analysis & Modelling
Process Design
Portfolio Management
Project Management
Cloud & Infra
Stakeholder Management
Rapid Prototyping
Quality Assurance & UAT
Education
Honours, Bachelor of Commerce, The University of British Columbia
Certified Business Analysis Professional, International Institute of Business Analysis
Extracurriculars
Languages
International Exchange
Awards
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Recent AI Projects

Selected AI systems and automations built for private credit, hospitality, and portfolio operations.

Private Investment Portal

Portfolio management platform for a private credit lender, with a matching borrower-facing view.

ReactSupabaseGoogle OAuth

Artigiano Analytics

AI-narrated sales, menu and staffing analytics for a chain of 25+ coffee shops.

ReactSupabaseClaude API

Knightsbridge Home

Company homebase for the parent group, with role-restricted access to each portfolio company's performance data.

ReactSupabaseRole-Based Access

Cafe Labour Allocator

Forecast-vs-actual labour and cost tracker for a multi-location cafe chain.

ForecastingSchedulingCost Analysis

Artigiano Scout

AI-powered wholesale partnership scout for a coffee roaster, surfacing and vetting prospects near any location.

AI ScoringMapsAuto Outreach

MaintainX Priority Board

Management-level priority board for maintenance work orders, synced live with MaintainX.

MaintainX APILive SyncComments

Hiring Assessment Tool

Candidate assessment tool for new hires, with automated scoring and behavioral profiling emailed to HR.

AssessmentAuto-ScoringHR Reports

The Standard

AI knowledge base grounded in company standards, documentation, and management philosophy.

Knowledge BaseInstant Q&A

Distinguished Performance Awards

Nomination and recognition workflow for employee awards, with automated email summaries to HR.

NominationsHR Emails
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Skills Stack

AI & LLMs

  • Built production tools on the Claude API and Gemini API
  • Designed agentic workflows for internal chatbots and analytics
  • Iterated prompt design directly with the people using each tool

Model APIs, agents, and prompt design, used to build the AI tooling running across the Knightsbridge portfolio.

Claude APIGemini APIAgents

Business Analysis

  • Leads stakeholder discovery and translates needs into testable user stories, acceptance criteria, and business rules
  • Documents current-state processes and defines future-state workflows, including exceptions and handoffs
  • Produces high-quality requirements that reduce ambiguity and rework

CBAP-certified analysis spanning discovery, requirements quality, process mapping, and delivery.

CBAPUser storiesAcceptance criteriaBusiness rules

Data & Backend

  • Assembled a 2.6M-row SQL dataset from roughly 200 weekly files covering 361 days
  • Stood up databases, authentication, and role-based access for production internal tools
  • Built automated data pipelines feeding operational dashboards and AI systems

Large-scale data modelling, access control, and reliable ingestion underneath the tools Anton ships.

PostgreSQLSQLData pipelinesAuth

Finance & Credit

  • Manage a $250MM+ private credit portfolio across construction, equipment, corporate, energy, and distressed situations
  • Build underwriting models, collateral valuations, credit memos, term sheets, and investment committee materials
  • Administer covenant monitoring, collateral sales, payouts, reconciliations, and restructuring analysis

End-to-end private credit underwriting and portfolio operations, including LTV, loan-to-cost, FLV/OLV, PIK, and Canadian insolvency frameworks.

UnderwritingFLV / OLVPIKPortfolio operations

Automation & Integration

  • Connected systems with Zapier and Make to remove manual data entry
  • Built API and webhook integrations between internal tools and portfolio company systems
  • Automated recurring reporting and notification workflows

Connecting systems so data moves on its own instead of through manual handoffs.

ZapierMakeAPIsWebhooks

Visualization

  • Built dashboards in Tableau and Power BI across banking, real estate, and clinical research
  • Delivered custom React dashboards for portfolio company reporting
  • Used Looker Studio for lightweight, shareable reporting

Dashboards and reporting, from enterprise BI tools to custom-built React interfaces.

TableauPower BILooker StudioCustom React

Enterprise Systems & Selection

  • Led BA work on a $4B+/yr ERP upgrade and a US manufacturing Coupa implementation
  • Writes RFP/RFQ packages, vendor evaluations, demo agendas, scoring models, and recommendations
  • Works across ERP, HCM, CRM, procurement, finance, and integrated enterprise application landscapes

Enterprise software selection and implementation in manufacturing, distribution, and operationally complex environments.

ERPHCMCRMRFP/RFQCoupa

Analysis & Modelling

  • Built financial models (IRR, NPV, cap rates) in Excel for deal and portfolio analysis
  • Used Python for data analysis and automation
  • Modeled AR/AP, R&D, and fundraising scenarios for early-stage companies

Financial and operational modelling, from private credit deals to startup fundraising.

ExcelPythonFinancial modelling

Process Design & BA Standards

  • Maps as-is processes and designs to-be workflows across finance, operations, HR, and IT
  • Captures exceptions, decision points, ownership, and cross-team handoffs
  • Establishes BA standards, reusable templates, and requirement-quality practices

Clear process documentation and practical standards that make complex change easier to deliver.

As-is / to-beProcess mapsTemplatesQuality

Portfolio Management

  • Acted as product owner for a portfolio of 20+ finance and procurement systems used by 78+ daily users
  • Prioritized a 300+ item enhancement and bug backlog by ROI, risk, roadmap fit, and technical debt
  • Ran release planning, phase-by-phase business cases, and pre-development scoping and feasibility

Owning a live backlog and roadmap across a large portfolio of business systems.

BacklogRoadmapRelease PlanningJira

Project Management

  • Facilitates workshops that drive decisions on scope, priorities, and trade-offs
  • Works across product manager and product owner responsibilities within cross-functional Agile teams
  • Supports UAT planning, defect triage, and go-live readiness

End-to-end delivery leadership from discovery through launch, backed by 200+ feature releases.

AgileWorkshopsUATGo-live

Cloud, Infrastructure & Systems Support

  • Deployed internal tools on Google Cloud, Netlify, and Supabase
  • Set up hosting and auth for portfolio company web apps
  • Managed infrastructure for a suite of production tools built solo
  • Supported critical finance systems using SQL, Postman, ServiceNow, Datadog, and RPA

Deployment, access, monitoring, support, and hands-on troubleshooting for production business systems.

Google CloudNetlifySupabaseSQLPostmanDatadog

Stakeholder Management

  • Facilitates workshops across technical and non-technical audiences
  • Aligns stakeholders on scope, priorities, trade-offs, and decisions
  • Coordinates vendors, auditors, operators, and delivery teams through change

Clear facilitation and practical communication that keeps complex work moving.

WorkshopsFacilitationVendorsChange

Rapid Prototyping

  • Turns ambiguous workflow problems into testable interfaces quickly
  • Builds working AI, analytics, and automation tools to validate ideas with users
  • Iterates directly from operational feedback before broader rollout

Fast, grounded prototyping that proves value before teams commit to a larger implementation.

ReactAI toolsWorkflow designUser feedback

Quality Assurance & UAT

  • Plans UAT around traceable requirements and clear acceptance criteria
  • Coordinates defect triage across business, technical, and vendor teams
  • Assesses release and go-live readiness before production change

Practical quality control that connects expected business outcomes to tested, supportable releases.

UATTest PlanningDefect TriageRelease Readiness
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Industries

Maynbridge · Capital Markets

  • Manage a $250MM+ book spanning construction, equipment, corporate, energy, and distressed credit
  • Own underwriting models, collateral analysis, credit memos, term sheets, and investment committee materials
  • Administer borrower monitoring, covenant issues, collateral sales, payouts, and loan reconciliations

End-to-end private credit work, from screening and structuring through portfolio operations and special situations.

Mark Anthony · CPG

  • Delivered 200+ features generating $6.5M in annual savings across source-to-pay, FX controls, and supply chain
  • Led requirements, workshops, UAT, defect triage, and go-live readiness on a $4B+/yr ERP program
  • Led vendor selection, configuration, conversion, cutover, and training for a new procurement platform
  • Supported a US manufacturing Coupa implementation across source-to-contract and source-to-pay

Three years as a Business Analyst at Mark Anthony Group in a complex manufacturing and distribution environment.

BMO · Banking

  • Modeled 7M+ customers for scoring and financial-sensitivity analysis on BMO’s Digital Banking team
  • Proposed 20+ product enhancements and reported on digital KPIs
  • Placed 2nd of 200+ interns pitching a child-focused banking platform to BMO’s CEO

Digital banking analytics at BMO, turning large customer datasets into product and KPI recommendations.

InterVISTAS · Consulting

  • Led discovery, requirements, and process mapping for the City of Edmonton’s enterprise system selection
  • Produced RFP/RFQ packages and supported vendor evaluation, demos, scoring, and recommendations
  • Built econometric models for transportation clients and used Tableau to cut proposal turnaround by 85%

Consulting experience across public-sector system selection, aviation, logistics, analytics, facilitation, and transformation planning.

UBC Sauder · Academia

  • Teaching Assistant for COMM 204 Operations and Logistics
  • Led and mentored students through UBC BizTech, the Co-op Student Association, and orientation
  • Completed an Honours BCom with Finance, MIS, and Business Analytics studies

Academic, teaching, leadership, and mentoring experience at UBC Sauder School of Business.

AVA Technologies · Agritech

  • Landed a $500K+ international deal and regulatory approval for an agritech venture
  • Built AR/AP, R&D, and fundraising models to support a Series A raise
  • Ran investor outreach and pitch decks, plus a wireframed crowdfunding campaign

Financial analyst work for an early-stage agritech company, where the models built to secure funding carried straight into how Anton scopes deals today.

Fiera Capital · Real Estate

  • Analyzed acquisitions (IRR, cap rates, NPV) for $8B+ AUM commercial and industrial funds
  • Built 5 Power BI dashboards adopted by Fund Managers to size up opportunities
  • Managed institutional investor relations through Salesforce and PitchBook

Investment analysis at Fiera Capital, pairing acquisition modelling with investor-facing reporting.

Black Tusk · Healthcare

  • Served as Business Analyst for a medical clinical research group
  • Optimized revenue and operations workflows for clinical research
  • Built Tableau dashboards to track clinic performance

Business analyst work for Black Tusk Research Group, a medical clinical research team.

Knightsbridge Capital · Sports

  • Extended the Knightsbridge automation toolkit to a professional sports portfolio company
  • Applied the same dashboarding and workflow patterns built for other portfolio companies
  • Supported portfolio-wide reporting that includes sports club performance data

One of the industries the Knightsbridge systems work now reaches, alongside private credit and F&B.

Knightsbridge Capital · F&B

  • Built a café analytics platform on a 2.6M-row dataset with product velocity, co-purchase, heatmap, and AI signal views
  • Developed labour analytics and scheduling methods that identified roughly $11K in weekly savings
  • Built a roaster operating platform spanning HACCP, inventory, purchasing, production, labour, pricing, and profitability

Hands-on systems work across multi-location café operations and coffee production, from daily data pipelines to decision support.

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Education & Credentials

UBC Sauder School of Business

BCom Honours, double specialization in Finance and Business Technology Management, concentration in Business Analytics, Co-op program. 3.7/4.0 and three-time Dean’s List.

FinanceBusiness Technology ManagementBusiness AnalyticsCo-op
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CBAP Certification

IIBA Certified Business Analysis Professional, reflecting extensive experience in discovery, requirements, process analysis, facilitation, solution evaluation, and delivery.

IIBACBAPBusiness Analysis
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Extracurriculars

I contributed across teaching, student leadership, partnerships, mentoring, and orientation programs at UBC.

  • COMM 204 TA: Supported 200+ operations students.
  • CUS VP Logistics: Managed a $100K events budget.
  • BizTech Partnerships: Grew membership and raised $8K.
  • COSAS Mentor: Guided junior business students.
  • Orientations Leader: Welcomed 20 first-year students.
LeadershipTeachingPartnershipsMentorship

Languages

English
Fluent
Russian
Fluent
French
Professional
Spanish
Conversational

Born in Russia and lived there until age 9, then learned English after moving to Canada. I completed French immersion and Spanish IB in high school and have travelled to countries where these languages are spoken to practise them.

EnglishRussianFrenchSpanish

International Exchange

Exchange semester at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, covering investment theory, financial market microstructure, digital platforms and AI, and global healthcare systems.

ManchesterExchangeUnited Kingdom
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Off the clock

Soccer

I play, referee, follow the sport closely, and support Chelsea.

Cars

I am drawn to European and older cars, especially BMWs.

Nature

I hike and spend time outdoors around British Columbia.

Country music

I regularly attend country music concerts, and Chris Stapleton is my favourite artist.

Cooking

I enjoy cooking and trying food from different places.

Travel

I have travelled to 30 countries and continue adding to the list.

Working out

I maintain an active fitness routine alongside soccer and hiking.

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Awards

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Anton Bondarev receiving the Outstanding Cross-Functional Collaboration Award
Outstanding Cross-Functional Collaboration Award ceremonyAnton Bondarev at the Outstanding Cross-Functional Collaboration Award presentation
2025 Outstanding Cross‑Functional Collaboration AwardMark Anthony Group · recognition for cross-functional delivery spanning finance, supply chain, technology, analytics, architecture, and privacy. The year included launching a new ERP for the Ireland business, modernizing payment and sourcing processes, and bringing AI SaaS tools into financial operations.
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Anton Bondarev holding the McArthur Award trophy
UBC McArthur Award , Outstanding Co‑op Junior Student2020 · Sauder School of Business honour recognizing standout performance and growth during an early co‑op work term. LinkedIn →
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ACE‑WIL Provincial Co‑op Student of the Year2020 · BC/Yukon‑wide honour judged on impact to the employer, the student, and the institution; won for his Financial Analyst term at AVA Technologies, where he built an international expansion strategy and secured the company’s largest overseas purchase order. UBC Co‑op →
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UBC David Huynh Leadership AwardSauder award memorializing student leader David Huynh, given to a BCom student who shows genuine leadership, community‑building, and service to peers. UBC Sauder →
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Cloverdale Community Service and Entrepreneurship AwardSauder scholarship recognizing students who pair community engagement with entrepreneurial ambition. UBC Sauder →
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CUS Most Innovative Club (BizTech)Commerce Undergraduate Society honour for UBC BizTech, the club he led as Team Lead and Partnerships Director. BizTech →
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2nd Place, BMO Innovation ChallengeOut of 200+ interns · conceived, wireframed, and personally pitched a child‑centered banking and financial literacy platform to the CEO of BMO, the CEO of United Way GTA, and the Head of Personal Banking Products.
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UBC International Learning Programs AwardSupports Sauder students studying abroad; recognized his exchange semester at Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester. UBC Go Global →
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Rutherford ScholarshipAlberta’s provincial scholarship for high‑school academic achievement.
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UBC Co‑op Service Recognition AwardRecognizes co‑op students who give back to the program itself, beyond their own work terms.
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3× UBC Sauder Dean’s ListTop academic standing within the BCom program, earned in three separate years.
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