Ivanov
I help businesses solve their problems. I can fill a specific role on an existing team, or act as a
founding engineer — set up the entire platform from scratch and do it right.
"Right" depends on context: sometimes it means a year of security compliance; sometimes it means shipping fast
with calculated trade-offs. I'll help you see the risks and make informed calls.
Lead SRE with roots in frontend and EVM blockchain.
Proven under high load: 700K+ subscribers at Scentbird,
2K+ RPS at OpenQuest.
13+ years from pixel-pushing to distributed systems at scale.
If you're looking for a "vibe-coder guy" — here's what I think about that as of March 2026.
You can absolutely set up a pipeline today where a fleet of AI agents automatically picks up Sentry errors, writes fixes, and ships code to production without a human touching it. The tooling is there — Claude Code, ChatGPT Codex, Cursor IDE, agentic workflows. I use all of these daily for different tasks. This very site was built with them.
But I still believe — in March 2026 — that you need a human in the loop. Someone who reviews the code and catches architectural problems before they compound. That person should:
- Know how to work with agents — this multiplies how many problems you can find and fix.
- Have system design knowledge — to catch when an LLM makes a bad architectural call.
- Know the language and frameworks deeply — the subtleties that prevent performance and security issues.
I've spent time digging into how neural networks actually train and work under the hood. I think everyone should — not to become an ML engineer, but to stop treating it like a magic box. Understanding what's inside helps you work with it better. It's like knowing how a manual gearbox works — it genuinely helps you drive.
If you haven't yet, I highly recommend this video — some details may be outdated by now, but the fundamentals haven't changed.
People I'm proud to have worked with. They are true professionals in what they do — feel free to reach out and ask what it was like working with me. (I haven't warned them — hopefully they think of me the same way, haha.)