Andrey Malashenko

Director, AI-Enabled API and App Development

Technology executive at BMO with 15+ years building and leading engineering organizations. Currently driving AI adoption and cloud-native API modernization to expose core banking products at scale. Previously grew a 120+ engineer Digitization organization from the ground up.

120+

Engineers Led

$40M+

Portfolio Managed

98%

Delivery Success

Leadership Journey

January 2026 — Present

Director, AI-Enabled API and App Development

Bank of Montreal — Personal and Business Banking Products & Services Technology

Building a new API organization to expose core mainframe banking products through modern cloud services
Championing AI adoption and efficiency across application development workflows
Establishing AI-enabled engineering practices and agentic development pipelines

API Modernization AI Adoption Cloud-Native

March 2022 — January 2026

Innovation Director, Branch Technology

Bank of Montreal — Personal and Business Banking

Led Branch Technology Modernization, AWS Center of Excellence, and Enterprise Managed File Transfer programs
Drove digital innovation across retail banking, maintaining 98% financial forecast accuracy
Managed cross-functional engineering teams and strategic vendor relationships

AWS CoE Branch Modernization 98% Forecast Accuracy

December 2016 — March 2022

Senior Technology Officer

Bank of Montreal — Personal and Commercial Technology

Scaled engineering teams from 1 to 50+ engineers with zero attrition
First at BMO to adopt OpenShift and AWS in retail banking
Delivered digitization programs via Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies
Managed $42MM annual technology budget

$42MM Budget Cloud Pioneer Zero Attrition

April 2013 — December 2016

Senior Technical Specialist — Solution Architect

Bank of Montreal — Wealth Management Technology

Owned architecture, forecasting, and estimates for the wealth management technology portfolio
Led technical governance across vendors and internal teams
Ensured BMO standards compliance and quality deliverables across all programs

Technical Excellence

Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS OpenShift Kubernetes Docker Microservices

AI & Innovation

AI Integration Agentic Workflows Machine Learning Vector Databases Automation

Leadership

Team Building Budget Management Strategic Planning Stakeholder Management Agile / Waterfall

Architecture

Enterprise Architecture System Integration API Design Security Governance

Recognition & Impact

3× BMO Best of the Best

Recognized in 2011, 2017, and 2019 for exceptional leadership and delivery excellence

Patent Holder

US-20200272483-A1 — Systems and Methods for Validating Loading of Content on User Interface (filed Feb 2019)

30+ Quarterly Top Performer

Consistently recognized for outstanding performance and strategic contributions

Cloud Pioneer

First adopter of AWS and OpenShift at BMO, driving cloud transformation across retail banking

98% Forecast Accuracy

Maintaining exceptional financial precision across a $40MM+ portfolio year over year

Zero Attrition Leadership

Built and retained high-performing teams with an exceptional engineering culture

Destination Digital — Finalist

BMO recognition for outstanding contributions to digital transformation initiatives (2022)