Meet the founders
The team behind Rayify.
Yana Shulga
Co-founder and CTO. Technical expert.
Yana is co-founder and CTO of Rayify, responsible for engineering and the technical training curriculum.
She has spent the past decade building and leading engineering, product and research teams across deep tech, alternative finance, FMCG and AI, most recently as Director of Engineering at Sovereign AI firm webAI, with earlier senior engineering leadership roles at Ledger, Candy Digital and SoftIron.
Her focus is getting autonomous, agentic AI into regulated environments: rigorous evaluation, failure-mode analysis and the controls that turn strong demos into production systems.
She advises financial services leaders on where and how to integrate agentic workflows, and designs the masterclasses and technical labs behind this curriculum.
She holds an MBA from Imperial College London.
Kieran Garvey
Co-founder and CEO. Financial services and regulation expert.
Kieran has 15+ years across FinTech, AI and regulatory innovation.
He has built AI and data capability across 300+ financial authorities and institutions in 120+ countries, and has designed machine learning programmes for quant researchers at a leading hedge fund and Tier 1 financial institutions.
He created the UK's first master's-level AI apprenticeship, and has published 30+ reports on FinTech and AI in finance, including the 2026 Global AI in Financial Services report.
He is also a Strategic AI Advisor at the University of Cambridge's Centre for Alternative Finance and AI Lead at Financial Innovation for Impact.
He holds degrees from Imperial College London and the London School of Economics & Political Science.
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