Vadim Ilves

Chief R&D Officer

Vadim Ilves

Since his appointment as Chief R&D Officer in 2019, Vadim has pushed forward product-driven R&D processes with significant impact on the product portfolio, successfully managing R&D, QA, ID, and program management. He has also worked with R&D Leaders in the creation of international R&D labs. With particular focus on company-wide AI adoption and modernization programs across VSI products, tools, and processes, Vadim ensures the OpenVMS Software portfolio maintains strategic value for its customers and partners.


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Accelerating Innovation: The Use of AI in R&D at VMS Software

Within VMS Software's R&D organization, the use of AI has transitioned from experimentation to everyday practice, with engineers firmly integrating AI into their workflows. Getting to this point, however, was far from easy due to the fact that most off-the-shelf AI systems don't know OpenVMS and related technologies well enough to be reliably useful. In order to get to where we are today, we had to do significant groundwork to build a proprietary domain knowledge base as well as OpenVMS-specific AI plugins and skills. In this article, I would like to outline how our engineers use AI today and spotlight some of our most promising AI projects.

Jul 29th, 2026