Georgy Starikov is a Software Engineering Manager with 20+ years in the industry. He started writing C on QNX for safety-critical systems, moved into system analysis and project management in banking, served as CTO of a high-throughput geo-distributed adtech platform, and led engineering organizations in telecom. He currently manages a multinational team modernizing a mission-critical internal platform. His background spanning low-level development, analysis, architecture, and organizational design is the direct source of the Waterfall 2.0 perspective.