Vladimir
Shetnikov

Co-founder & CTO at KinesteX. Building a personal AI trainer that runs on your phone — on-device motion analysis, frame by frame.

Currently in — Dubai, UAE

About.

I've been writing code since middle school in Turkmenistan. I've studied in the US, dropped out of college in my last year, and built a team of 20+ people working toward one vision: getting people to move more.

KinesteX is an AI-powered motion analysis SDK that helps health and fitness apps deliver real-time coaching. No special hardware, just a camera, fully on-device and privacy-first. Thousands of people use it daily.

I lead our engineering and research team, but the thing that actually keeps me up is building a system that can understand any movement a person makes, from the device camera alone, and guide them toward their health goals. It's active work in progress, and we're getting there.

RoleCo-founder · CTO
FocusOn-device AI · Motion
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Projects.

KinesteX

On-edge motion-analysis SDK. Your phone becomes a personal trainer — millisecond pose tracking, no servers, no lag. Everything we've built since revolves around our motion analysis system.

On-device MLComputer Vision
  • Native SDKsiOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter — drop the motion engine into any app. Camera in, reps and form out.
  • Web SDKThe same engine in the browser — JavaScript or React, nothing to install.
  • Admin DashboardPartners, usage, and live SDK health in a single pane of glass.
  • Internal Management ToolsThe machinery that lets a small team ship like a large one.
  • Model Training & OptimizationWhere models get trained, quantized, and squeezed small enough to live on a phone.
2022 — Now Live
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Self-Improving Loop

Claude routines that do routine engineering work on their own and grade their own results.

AgentsClaude RoutinesMCPAutomation
  • 01 · Maintenance Requests & Product UpdatesLive. Client requests, analytics and errors in. Pull requests and a morning report out.
  • 02 · End-to-end Code and QA ReviewNext. Reviews the loop's pull requests in code and in the running product.
2026 Building
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Watch AR

Rendering real 3D watches onto a moving wrist — motion tracking and augmented reality doing the thing a mirror can't.

AR3D RenderingMotion TrackingOn-device
2026 R&D
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CI/CD Agents

Agentic workflows that review, reason, and ship with a model in the loop. Explore custom alternatives to popular code review agents.

AgentsCI/CDAutomationDevEx
2025 — Now Building
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Talks.

On camera

How We Use AI to Build Products While We Sleep

How our small team puts AI agents to work so product keeps moving around the clock: the workflows, the tooling, and what actually ships while everyone is offline.

AI AgentsAutomationDevEx
Jul 2026YouTube ↗

Let's
make the
world move.

Reach out if you need help, or have a direct question about something I'm working on. If it comes from a real person, I read it.

Heads up: I auto-filter and report all spam. If you're a bot, that hurts your sender delivery score. So please don't.

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