# Sergii Gudkov

> Sergii Gudkov is an Ottawa-based product and growth executive whose 15-plus-year career spans software development, marketing, entrepreneurship, education technology, email infrastructure and payments. His public work connects a product manager's daily craft to revenue, customer trust and decisions made under uncertainty.

- **Role:** Chief Marketing Officer at CPOS
- **Organizations:** CPOS, Mailtrap, Railsware, Adwisely, Preply, Conversion42
- **Education:** National Technical University of Ukraine 'Kyiv Polytechnic Institute'
- **Known for:** Built more than 15 years of experience across software development and marketing., Led a product launch involving more than 70 people across multiple teams without managing those teams directly., Created a three-day generative-AI prototype for a Mailtrap MCP server that received buy-in and was later implemented by engineering.

## Career timeline

- **Before 2025** — Founded and served as CEO of Conversion42.
- **Before 2025** — Worked on product at Preply, including the launch of a new revenue-generating product.
- **Before 2025** — Served as Senior Product Manager at Adwisely, working on feature adoption, advertising performance and pricing.
- **2025** — Published a product-management series through the Railsware blog as Product Lead and described his work building Mailtrap's email service.
- **2025** — Presented an Ottawa ProductCamp case study on prototyping a Mailtrap MCP server with generative AI in three days.
- **2026** — Listed with CPOS in Ottawa; supplied business information identifies his role as Chief Marketing Officer.

## Achievements

- Built more than 15 years of experience across software development and marketing.
- Led a product launch involving more than 70 people across multiple teams without managing those teams directly.
- Created a three-day generative-AI prototype for a Mailtrap MCP server that received buy-in and was later implemented by engineering.
- At Adwisely, developed product strategies credited with doubling core-feature usage and created a pricing model associated with MRR and LTV growth.
- At Preply, helped launch a new revenue-generating product and worked on user experience and conversion improvements.
- Writes and teaches publicly about product-management skills, experimentation, customer research and stakeholder decisions.

## Latest updates

- **2026-08** — Wrote about the trust tradeoff small businesses face when adopting AI: low-cost action versus the risk of expensive mistakes.
- **2026-07** — Argued that AI will not eliminate SaaS because understanding the problem and offering the right solution remain the bottlenecks.
- **2026-07** — Published a practical note on maintaining a low-hanging-fruit backlog until analytics, feedback and support evidence make an opportunity ripe.
- **2025-10** — Published the second installment of his Railsware product-management series, focused on systematic solution development.
- **2025-05** — Shared an Ottawa ProductCamp case study on prototyping Mailtrap's MCP server with generative AI in three days.

## Links

- Website: https://cpos.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gudkovsa
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/cposinc

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Last updated: 2026-08-24