Ten years in made-to-order B2B furniture — sales, design, then automation. Since 2022 I write software for a living: four-plus years of commercial development, the last three as the only engineer at a Moscow furniture manufacturer, where I own the whole digital side — catalog site, pricing calculators, order management, infrastructure, AI assistants. I work AI-first. I also build hardware: irrigation, lighting, Home Assistant.
Product photos from the factory and clients' offices are reworked with Gemini into clean catalog shots; product descriptions are generated from raw parameters.
AI assistant for the team in Telegram: knowledge base, Metrika, Webmaster, Direct, Wordstat, the site through MCP, read-only access to the OMS. Pydantic AI + aiogram.
Afina
in production
Personal AI assistant: server, mail, Telegram, an Obsidian knowledge base.
Mail bot
in production
Several mailboxes into Telegram, LLM triage, reply straight from the chat.
Rental booking bot
in production, internal
Booking of display showcases for rent.
Notifications
Mail, ELK alerts; many one-task bots that were switched off once the task was done.
02About2017 → 2026
From the sales floor to the whole stack
2017Orders were kept in paper notebooks. I initiated the first order management system: wrote the spec and ran the project with a hired developer.
2017–2021Sales manager and furniture designer (SketchUp, client work). On the side: VBA macros and all of the office IT — IP telephony, hardware, drivers.
2021Started Python.
Feb 2022First paid script: bank statements from a mailbox into Excel (tkinter + pandas).
Aug 2022 – autumn 2023Part-time developer at an analytics company: parsers, working alone.
since July 2023Sole developer at Pioner: catalog site, calculators, infrastructure, AI.
2026Rewrote the order management system myself in a week — the old one had no API for integrations.
Arduino, 3D printing, home brewing with a temperature probe in the tank logging to a console, a hydroponics attempt, lamps with touch buttons — hardware has been a long-running interest, not a course.
Approach
I work AI-first.
Features are built with Claude Code; I review everything and write the critical parts myself — auth, payments, infrastructure — and spend most of my time on architecture and the product. Minimal dependencies, pragmatic simplicity over over-engineering, open standards, resilience to network failures. The clearest proof: the order management system we once built with a hired developer, I rewrote alone in a week.
Wrote specs and ran a development project (OMS v1); worked with freelance designers on the Pioner site — set tasks and signed off on layouts [TBD: details].
Next.jsReact 19ViteTypeScriptTailwindReact Native (Expo)Flutter (app in production)three.js (prototype)
Infrastructure
DockernginxLet's EncryptGitHub Actions CI/CDPrometheus + Loki + GrafanaRussian hosting under DPI/TSPU constraintsservers in Finland
AI
Pydantic AILLM assistants and agentsMCP servers (own, in production)Gemini for image processingElevenLabs (TTS)Azure (pronunciation assessment)Claude Code and Claude Design daily
