V2 AI hires ex-HashiCorp, Google and Databricks leader Arseny Chernov as Director of Forward Deployed Engineering in Singapore

V2 AI, a data and AI consultancy founded in 2023 with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur, has named Arseny Chernov as its Director, Forward Deployed Engineering - Applied AI. He is based in Singapore and will support customers across Singapore and South-East Asia on AI architecture, forward deployed engineering and secure multi-agent workflows.

Chernov was most recently Regional Director for ASEAN, Korea and Greater China at HashiCorp. Before that he spent more than five years at Google in senior technical and engineering roles, and he led Partner Solutions Architecture for Asia-Pacific and Japan at Databricks, where he was the company's first hire in Singapore.

The role is framed around getting enterprise AI from prototype into production, with security, governance and data foundations designed in from the start. For FDEs, it is another sign that consultancies in Asia-Pacific are putting forward deployed engineering at the leadership level, and that Singapore is becoming a regional base for this kind of hands-on deployment work.