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Projects

Companies I've shipped at, side projects that went live, and the occasional satirical artifact that exists mostly to prove a point.

// career

  • 2011 – 2013·CocCoc, Hanoi

    CocCoc

    Head of Frontend & Tools

    Ran frontend, tooling, and the search department for Vietnam's home-grown search engine and browser. Ranking, crawling, indexing, onboarding newcomers landing in Hanoi.

    • → Vietnam's challenger to Google
    • → Tens of millions of users
    SearchRankingFrontendCrawling
    Roem.ru coverage Wikipedia
  • 2017 – 2022·Amazon, Seattle

    Alexa Connect Kit

    Senior SDE

    Core contributor on ACK — the platform that lets device makers put Alexa in their products without running their own cloud or firmware stack.

    • → Third-party Alexa integration at scale
    IoTAWSVoiceEmbedded
    Alexa Connect Kit
  • 2015 – 2017·Groupon, Chicago

    Groupon Interface

    Tech Lead

    Led the Groupon Interface team — the consumer web surface across 26 country sites. Shipped deal/auth-flow optimizations against some of the highest traffic on the open e-commerce web.

    • → 26 countries
    • → Top-10 e-commerce traffic
    Consumer webA/BAuthPerf
  • 2022 – present·Indeed, Seattle

    Indeed

    Principal Software Engineer

    Current role. Principal Engineer on consumer-scale jobs infrastructure.

    • → Principal IC tier
    • → Top-5 global jobs marketplace
    Distributed systemsConsumer scale
    Indeed

// side

  • 2014satire

    Часы Пескова / Peskov's Clocks

    Creator

    A Saturday-morning viral civic-tech artifact: index the ruble value of Dmitry Peskov's alleged $620k watch collection against the state of the Russian economy. Open-sourced on GitHub. Got a Radio Svoboda interview out of it.

    • → Built in ~90 minutes
    • → Covered by Radio Svoboda
    Civic techWeekend buildGitHub Pages
    Radio Svoboda interview
  • 2014

    CrewFork

    Founder

    "Overseas programmers for your business" — a remote-engineering marketplace side venture, predating the nearshoring wave by about a decade.

    MarketplaceRemote work
    Crunchbase

// satire

  • 2026satire

    Orphaned Threads

    Creator

    A shoegaze band that does not exist, with a manifesto it did not write, and a server farm in Northern Virginia that agreed to feel sad on my behalf. The artifact behind the Algorithmic Gaze essay.

    AI music genArtManifesto
    orphanedthreads.xyz
  • 2025satire

    RJS — Russian JavaScript Transpiler

    Creator

    A Russian-to-JavaScript transpiler wrapped in a straight-faced "digital sovereignty" landing page. The transpiler compiles. The landing page does not.

    TranspilerSatireDeadpan
    rjs.su GitHub (nike-17)

// open source

  • 2026 – present

    Sverklo

    Creator

    Code intelligence for AI coding agents. A local-first MCP server that gives Claude Code, Cursor, and friends structural understanding of a repo — symbol graphs, blast-radius analysis, diff-aware review — instead of making them re-grep the same files on every turn.

    • → Local-first MCP server
    • → 10 languages indexed
    • → Hybrid BM25 + embeddings + PageRank
    MCPTypeScriptTree-sitterSQLiteONNX
    sverklo.com