# Vladimir Shetnikov

Co-founder & CTO at [KinesteX](https://kinestex.com). 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](https://kinestex.com) 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.

Role **Co-founder · CTO**

Focus **On-device AI · Motion**

![Vladimir Shetnikov](https://www.vladimirshetnikov.com/portrait.jpg) 

## 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 ML Computer Vision

-   Native SDKs iOS, Android, React Native, and Flutter — drop the motion engine into any app. Camera in, reps and form out.
-   Web SDK The same engine in the browser — JavaScript or React, nothing to install.
-   Admin Dashboard Partners, usage, and live SDK health in a single pane of glass.
-   Internal Management Tools The machinery that lets a small team ship like a large one.
-   Model Training & Optimization Where models get trained, quantized, and squeezed small enough to live on a phone.

2022 — **Now** Live

[KinesteX](https://kinestex.com)

### Self-Improving Loop

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

Agents Claude Routines MCP Automation

-   01 · Maintenance Requests & Product Updates Live. Client requests, analytics and errors in. Pull requests and a morning report out.
-   02 · End-to-end Code and QA Review Next. Reviews the loop's pull requests in code and in the running product.

2026 Building

[Self-Improving Loop](https://www.vladimirshetnikov.com/projects/self-improving-loop)

### Watch AR

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

AR 3D Rendering Motion Tracking On-device

2026 R&D

[Watch AR](https://www.vladimirshetnikov.com/projects/watch-ar)

### CI/CD Agents

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

Agents CI/CD Automation DevEx

2025 — **Now** Building

[CI/CD Agents](https://www.vladimirshetnikov.com/posts/ci-cd-agents)

## 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 Agents Automation DevEx

Jul 2026 [YouTube ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CexJLKwYaPs)

## 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.

[X · @createvmir↗](https://x.com/createvmir) [LinkedIn · Vladimir Shetnikov↗](https://www.linkedin.com/in/vladimir-shetnikov/) [kinestex.com↗](https://kinestex.com)

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