About Me

CTO at Intensa. 11 years in the industry, 5 of which in team and project management.

I define technology strategy, implement AI automation, and manage infrastructure and project security.

I combine management with hands-on engineering — designing architecture, writing code on complex tasks, participating in pre-sales. I also build my own products in monitoring, cybersecurity, and EdTech. I host developer meetups and have experience teaching web development.

Currently growing in cybersecurity, pursuing certifications. At the same time, integrating AI into development workflows — from code review to routine automation.

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Experience

CTO

Intensa · 2025 — present

Full-cycle web studio: development, design, marketing. Building projects on Bitrix, Laravel, Next.js for mid-size and enterprise clients.

Strategy & Technology

  • — Defining the company's technology strategy: stack choices, standards, and direction
  • — Implementing AI tools and workflow automation (n8n, AI coding assistants)
  • — Managing IT budget, infrastructure and payroll costs

Business & Clients

  • — Participating in pre-sales: project estimation, technical specifications, client meetings
  • — Resolving crisis situations with clients and within the team
  • — Collaborating with cross-functional teams: project managers, marketing, sales

Infrastructure & Security

  • — Managing server infrastructure: hosting, CI/CD, GitLab, Sentry, monitoring
  • — Ensuring project security: audits, vulnerability protection, incident response
  • — Maintaining and developing office local infrastructure

Team

  • — Leading a department of 16: three dev teams + QA
  • — Making hiring decisions, growing team leads through 1:1s and mentorship
  • — Organizing hackathons and internal knowledge-sharing meetups

Head of Development

Intensa · 2022 — 2025

Management

  • — Built development processes from scratch: code review, CI/CD, quality standards
  • — Distributed tasks across three teams, managed workload and deadlines
  • — Planned team composition per project, forecasted hiring needs

Architecture & Code

  • — Designed project architectures, selected technology stacks
  • — Personally tackled complex technical challenges, wrote code on critical paths
  • — Conducted code reviews, managed releases

Team

  • — Trained developers, led workshops on technologies and best practices
  • — Worked with team leads: goal setting, feedback, career growth support
  • — Supported team members through challenging work and personal situations

Senior Developer

Intensa · 2018 — 2022

Web development with PHP, Laravel, Bitrix. Participated in architecture design, code reviews, and junior mentoring.

Instructor

Computer Academy "STEP" · 2020 — 2021

Taught web development: PHP, JavaScript, frontend and backend fundamentals.

Developer

Ingate · 2015 — 2018 ·Russia

Maintained and developed the company's internal web resources. PHP, MySQL, Linux.

Side projects

AlertFox

Website Monitoring & Audit Platform

A service that watches a website so its owner doesn’t have to: uptime checks every minute from three regions, SSL and DNS control, vulnerability scanning, and Lighthouse performance audits. Under the hood — four services: a Laravel dashboard, Python uptime monitor and security scanner, and a Node.js performance service.

Laravel Python Node.js React

Bushido Servers

Secure Internet Access Service

A commercial service built from scratch, running since 2022: servers in six countries, VLESS, Shadowsocks, and Trojan protocols, up to three devices per key. A Telegram bot is the single interface — purchases, renewals, key delivery, and support all happen there.

Python Linux Ansible Telegram Bot

JustTalk AI

AI-Powered English Speaking Practice

An EdTech startup: an English speaking trainer where the AI holds a voice conversation, remembers past sessions, and builds every next one on the last. Includes a full 12-minute IELTS Speaking mock test, role-play scenarios, and pronunciation feedback after every session.

Laravel Python PostgreSQL WebSocket

Open Source

Houndoom

Malware Scanner for Web Applications

An open source scanner written in Go: hunts for web shells, backdoors, phishing, and infected files. 3,300+ signatures, 7 specialized detectors, recursive deobfuscation, and AI-powered triage via Claude. Multi-threaded — thousands of files in seconds.

Go Claude AI CLI

Obsidian Pub Plugin + Server

Self-Hosted Obsidian Notes Publishing

An alternative to Obsidian Publish with no subscription and no third-party servers: the plugin publishes a note in one click, the self-hosted server serves it from your own domain. Server setup is a single script — Docker Compose, Let’s Encrypt SSL, access keys generated automatically.

TypeScript Obsidian Node.js Docker

Technologies

Backend

PHP Laravel Bitrix Python FastAPI Go Node.js

Frontend

JavaScript Vue Next.js React

Databases

MySQL PostgreSQL MongoDB Redis

Infrastructure

Linux Nginx Docker GitLab CI/CD Sentry n8n

Security

Web App Auditing Vulnerability Analysis Incident Response nmap nuclei YARA

Networking

WireGuard VLESS Server Configuration Routing

Practices

SOLID Design Patterns REST API Unit Testing PSR

Education

Tula State University

2015

Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, "Mathematics and Computer Science"

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