Stepan Pushkarev

Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer Provectus

Last Reviewed: September 28, 2026

Executive Summary

Stepan Pushkarev is a co-founder of Provectus, an AI systems integrator and consultancy headquartered in San Francisco, where he holds both the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Executive Officer titles. Provectus describes him as a technologist with expertise in cloud computing, distributed systems and machine learning, and credits him with building its AI consulting practice. The company traces its origins to 2010 and to distributed data engineering, and it has since repositioned around building and running AI systems for enterprise clients. Little about his career before or outside Provectus is published in first-party sources.

Career Highlights

• Co-founder of Provectus, which dates its origin to 2010; currently holds both the CTO and CEO titles.
• Led the build-out of Provectus’s AI consulting practice, delivering transformational projects for large enterprises and technology startups.
• Described by the company as having a track record of building professional services businesses and founding SaaS startups.
• Appeared on SiliconANGLE’s theCUBE at Amazon re:MARS 2022 alongside Russell Lamb of PepsiCo.

Professional Journey

Provectus began in 2010 as a distributed data engineering business. Its team contributed to open-source projects including Apache Spark, Apache Kafka and Presto, and turned that expertise into data platform work for technology companies. Pushkarev co-founded the business, and his expertise as the company describes it — cloud computing, distributed systems and machine learning — tracks the path the firm itself took.

Under his leadership Provectus moved from data platforms into machine learning and then into AI consulting, building a practice that the company says has delivered transformational projects for large enterprises and disruptive technology startups. He has represented that work publicly, including in a SiliconANGLE theCUBE interview at Amazon’s re:MARS conference in 2022 alongside Russell Lamb of PepsiCo.

Today Provectus presents itself as an AI-first systems integrator, headquartered in San Francisco with leadership in EMEA and APAC, and reports more than 400 AI builders and 50 machine learning researchers. Pushkarev leads it as both CTO and CEO, an arrangement that keeps the company’s technical direction and its management in the same hands.

Education

No education record was found in any first-party or dated source reviewed.