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Serial technical founder. Over 15+ years I went from a system administrator in a small town to a CTO who has launched multiple products on the international market. I don't just write code — I build companies and the engineering systems that make those companies possible.

My Story

2024 -- Present

Gerts AI: Solo Architect with AI

Enterprise platform for knowledge and reasoning. Graph RAG, ontologies, entity extraction, access control, audit. Built alone with AI as a force multiplier: 30+ custom AI agents, 10+ MCP servers. Result: 50+ packages, 20+ microservices, 5K+ tests, 100+ architecture documents, 2M+ LOC in 3 months.

2023 -- Present

Consulting: Technical Audits for Investors

Private investors ask me to look at startups from the technical side. I dive into the code, architecture, team processes and deliver a structured report: what's real, what the risks are, where the technical debt lies.

2023 -- Present

ExtraBoost AI

AI-driven growth platform that supercharges marketing and sales pipelines with autonomous agents and data-driven optimization.

2020 -- Present

Orchestra: Product Hunt Triple Winner

Co-founder and Operating CTO. B2B SaaS for task management and team communications. Product of the Day, Week, and Month on Product Hunt. Single codebase running on 5 platforms. AI assistant with 8+ LLM providers. Team of 6 competing with companies 10x larger.

2017 -- Present

AWAYO: IT Solutions

CTO & Co-founder. Multi-project curation and technology adoption across multiple ventures.

2017 -- 2022

Multiroad: Digital Freight Forwarding

CTO & Co-founder. Multimodal routes (sea + rail + road + air), cost calculation, booking. Pre-seed investment from the very first pitch. Architecture still running and generating revenue today.

2012 -- 2017

Web Studio: 100+ Projects

Founded with a partner who I still work with at Orchestra. Over 5 years delivered 100+ client projects. Learned the most critical CTO skill: estimate, promise, and deliver.

2011 -- 2016

From Hardware to Code

Started as a system administrator, then CIO at an advertising agency. The most important lesson: technology exists not for technology's sake, but for business.

2000 -- 2011

The Beginning: Hardware

From childhood fascinated by electronics. Built devices from radio components. Active in radio clubs and moto/auto workshops.

How I Think

Research-first, delivery-focused

Before writing code, I study. For gerts.ai I analyzed over 100 open-source projects. Wrote over 100 formal architecture documents. And yet — over 2 million lines of code in 3 months. Research doesn't slow you down — it speeds you up.

Order from chaos

My role in every project is to turn "everything is on fire" into "predictable delivery." Code standards, automated quality checks, transparent processes, documentation. It sounds boring -- but it's what separates a product that lives for 5 years from one that dies in six months.

AI as an engineering tool

I don't "use ChatGPT for code." I engineer AI workflows: 30+ specialized agents, each with a clear area of responsibility. An agent for architecture review, one for deep research, one for API testing. It's a system — with rules, quality gates, persistent memory.

Full-stack done right

I work at every level: from database design and security systems to UI and UX. But it's not surface-level -- at each layer I build production-grade solutions. A full OIDC provider. A cross-platform product from a single codebase. Enterprise security with 5 authorization layers.

What I Bring

As an Operating CTO

  • Turn chaotic development into a predictable release cycle
  • Build architecture that lives and scales
  • Integrate AI into the development process as a system
  • Hire, train, set standards -- making the team self-sufficient

As an Architect

  • Design systems that don't need to be rewritten in a year
  • Think about security, scaling, and cost from day one
  • Document decisions so a new engineer can be productive from week one

As a Founder

  • Understand that technology is a means, not an end
  • Think about product-market fit, unit economics, time-to-market
  • Deliver with limited resources -- because I've done it my entire life

As a Consultant

  • Objective view of someone else's code and architecture
  • Structured reports for investment decisions
  • Practical recommendations, not abstract advice

Numbers That Matter

Combined product portfolio

2M+

Lines of code across 2 products

100+

Packages in 2 TypeScript monorepos

40

Microservices in production

5K+

Automated tests

100+

Production releases

5

Platforms from 1 codebase

Engineering discipline

100+

Architecture documents

67

Reference implementations studied

99

Bugs tracked with severity levels

AI as engineering tool

30+

Custom AI agents

10+

MCP servers

7-8x

Productivity multiplier

Business outcomes

PH 3x

Product of the Day/Week/Month

Pre-seed

Investment from first pitch

100+

Client projects delivered

3+

Companies founded

15+

Years in tech

Want to work together?

I'm open to co-founding opportunities, CTO roles, and consulting engagements.