Software Architect (Pet project)

February 2025 – March 2026 · Tampa, Florida

AI Content Generation Platform. Primary contributor (100+ commits) to an AI-powered content creation and publishing platform.

• Built an AI content-generation system on GPT-4/5 with image generation, trend extraction and duplicate-content detection.
• Integrated publishing to Telegram, LinkedIn, WordPress and other with scheduling and queue processing on cron and Supabase Edge
• Architected a cross-platform mobile app from scratch (React Native, Expo, TypeScript) as a Turborepo/pnpm monorepo with a shared UI kit and a typed API client generated from the backend OpenAPI spec; authored 90%+ of commits.
• Built the mobile data layer: TanStack Query with tiered caching and offline support, single-flight token refresh, idempotency keys, secure token storage, and forms on React Hook Form + Zod.
• Delivered core flows: SMS sign-in, multi-step sign-up, onboarding, feeds, post with photo cropping, profiles and invite deep links.
• Built a design system from Figma via Figma MCP: design tokens, 14 components and 120+ icons, documented in Storybook.
• Provisioned production infrastructure with Terraform/OpenTofu: managed Kubernetes with autoscaling, PostgreSQL replicated across 3 availability zones, Redis/Valkey, Kafka (KRaft), OpenSearch and S3-compatible storage.
• Secured the platform with private-network-only data stores, Terraform-generated secrets in a cloud secrets manager, least-privilege IAM, SSO (OIDC + oauth2-proxy) and RBAC-limited CI access.
• Deployed services with Helm, Kustomize and GitLab CI; cut infrastructure costs by consolidating services behind a shared load balancer.

Full Stack Engineer, Software Architect

June 2022 – May 2025 · San Jose, California

Criya AI, Y Combinator and venture backed AI startup is an intelligent content system.

• Designed application architecture from scratch. Migrated Ruby app to Next.js - improved performance & SEO.
• Integrated LLM-based workflows for AI-driven marketing. Enabled users to generate content based on existing companies through a step-by-step questionnaire system and a knowledge base capable of storing virtually any type of data.
• Championed AI adoption, making Criya one of the first YC startups to deploy large-scale LLM workflows in production.
• Developed a custom page builder with a user-friendly structure.
• Integrated numerous third-party services (payments, analytics, auth), ensuring scalability and reliability.
• Built NX monorepo architecture, reducing build times by 50% and simplifying collaboration across teams.
• Developed a style library based on pure React components and Tailwind CSS.
• Developed cross-platform React Native app for quick content creation.
• Provided mentorship and technical leadership to junior developers.

Lead Frontend Engineer, Software Architect

April 2017 – June 2022

Leading IT services provider delivering scalable web platforms and digital transformation solutions across multiple industries. Worked across several high-impact projects in roles ranging from Frontend Engineer to Software Architect.

• Built a professional social network with a chat system, cutting global negotiation steps from 5 to 3.
• Led architectural decisions and code reviews, ensuring clean, maintainable, and scalable solutions
• Migrated legacy projects from jQuery to Next.js.
• Created standardized collaboration guidelines, which standardized processes and guidelines, resulting in 3 times increase in development speed. Introduced modern CSS frameworks to enhance styling and maintainability.
• Optimized PostgreSQL database performance by 37% without changing the number of queried parameters.
• Drove modernization of the tech stack, transforming legacy products into high-performance applications
• Played a key role in scaling the platform to support 147 shops, managing both frontend and backend complexity. Used Yii2.
• Our team worked on SEO optimization, resulting in over 43% of our websites ranking in the top 1-3 positions.

Full-Stack Engineer, Software Architect

October 2021 – June 2022

Order-management platform for a multi-channel furniture retailer.

• Built an order-management system (OMS) that brings orders from 4 marketplaces and 1,700+ websites into one workflow. It has processed 390K+ website orders and 90K+ marketplace orders.
• Automated inventory sync: prices and stock levels are imported from Google Sheets and pushed to warehouses in background jobs, with a dry-run mode for safe rollout.
• Added full-text order search with Typesense and analytics dashboards showing sales by platform, city and month.
• Designed asynchronous processing on a Redis queue with 30+ scheduled jobs and systemd workers. Deployed with CI/CD on GitHub Actions to separate dev and production environments.
• Modernized the frontend: React + TypeScript widgets inside Yii2, a move from Parcel to Vite, and CSS Modules with a reusable UI component layer.
• Automated the management domains through the Cloudflare and Beget APIs, including SSL certificate expiry tracking

Wordpress Engineer

May 2015 – August 2017

• Developed a WordPress plugin with multifunctional admin panel (order management, analytics, third-party integrations).
• Developed and localized 11 WordPress websites, each dedicated to a specific software product of the company.
• Gained hands-on experience with CMS customization, building solutions adopted across the company’s product line.