Sergii Khlivnenko has spent 10 years building and managing product and engineering teams in iGaming — across studios, platform providers, and high-growth operators. He has held PO, EM, Agile Coach, and PM roles, often simultaneously. In 2023, he founded Consysteam (Bratislava, Slovakia) to bring custom AI and operational systems to iGaming providers who have outgrown generic solutions. He also built Slotif.ai — a market intelligence platform that gives product teams risk signals at the concept stage, before launch.
Sergii led the Agile transformation at Playson across 12 cross-functional teams and 5 departments over nearly three years. The outcome was genuine process change — not a ceremony adoption. The distinction matters because most iGaming studios that attempt Agile transformation end up with standups and retrospectives but no improvement in delivery predictability or team autonomy.
Most iGaming studios validate a game concept the wrong way: by playing competitor games, looking at provider catalogues, and relying on the producer's instincts. This process takes weeks and produces opinions — not evidence. By the time a concept enters development, the studio has already committed to a direction based on incomplete market intelligence.
An iGaming provider's team was spending hours every week searching Google Drive for answers that existed somewhere in their 200+ internal documents. Game rules, compliance procedures, integration specs, onboarding guides — all written, all stored, all effectively invisible in practice. People stopped searching and started asking colleagues instead, creating a secondary tax on senior team members' time.