Biography
For more than 4 years, Alexander Kostin worked at Alfa-Bank IT.
Since 2014, he worked at Yandex, over the past few years he has been responsible for the technological development of the company in logistics and retail. With his participation, Yandex launched the direction of robotics, scaled the infrastructure of Market.
September 2, 2024 joined the Kh5 Group team, where he took the position of Managing Director of Kh5 Technologies (part of the X5 Group).
2025: TAdviser interview
The "figure" in retail has long been one of the factors that provide competitive advantages to players in this market. And X5, the largest grocery retailer in Russia, continuously optimizes both internal processes and customer experience in its stores by introducing innovations. At the same time, the approaches, processes and infrastructure that form the basis for the applied technologies are changing following new challenges. Alexander Kostin, Managing Director of Kh5 Tech, spoke in an interview with the Deputy Editor-in-Chief of TAdviser Natalya Lavrentieva about what changes are now being implemented in the management of the IT unit, IT infrastructure, and what technologies the company is betting on in the near future. Read more here.