2013 — present · 12 yrs
Independent R&D Engineer / Solution Architect
Self-employed · Moscow / Buenos Aires
Building AI agent orchestration platforms with RAG pipelines and vector search.
Designed and shipped IoT product lines — smart sockets, automotive lighting, educational toys —
from schematics to serial production. Architected metronium.io SaaS CMS core.
ETL pipelines, competitive intelligence scrapers, legacy rescue for critical business systems.
PythonNode.jsAI/LLM
RAGIoTC/C++
ETLDocker
2007 — 2011 · 4.5 yrs
Senior R&D Software Engineer
Yandex · Moscow
Co-created the original Yandex.Disk architecture and working prototype —
reverse-engineered network protocols (incl. Gmail), implemented reliable multi-threaded file uploads across all browsers.
Built the Drag-and-Drop UI core for Narod.ru from scratch — spatial collision algorithms before HTML5 DnD API existed.
Developed NLP gender classifier with 97% accuracy using stemming and probabilistic models.
MapReduce pipelines for large-scale data aggregation.
PerlJavaScriptMapReduce
NLPHighloadTCP analysis
2004 — 2017 · 12.5 yrs
Co-Founder / CTO
KarmaDigital · Moscow
Designed and built metronium.io — a full SaaS CMS and website builder platform (Perl, MongoDB, Redis).
Led the engineering team, established internal mentorship system that grew senior engineers in-house.
Managed remote teams and outsource contractors while maintaining stable release cycles.
PerlMongoDBRedis
SaaSTeam LeadArchitecture
2004 — 2007 · 3 yrs
Co-Founder / CTO
Perviy IT Alyans · Moscow
Built Metronium from zero to MVP. Launched and supported 100+ client websites on proprietary CMS.
Full engineering stack from scratch: servers (FreeBSD/Linux), DNS, mail services, team hiring and mentoring.
PHPPerlMySQL
FreeBSDDNS
1999 — 2004
Backend Developer / Programmer
ITSoft · University (Rostov-on-Don)
Hosting automation modules for DirectAdmin, webmail client, zero-downtime migrations.
First web systems for the university — invention registry, digital content platforms.
PHPPostgreSQLLinux