I build intelligent systems that ship to production.
I'm Vlady — a senior software engineer who's been writing code since 2008 and shipping production since 2013. Today I build decentralized AI, DeFi launch infrastructure and full-stack products — from architecture to hardened, monitored deployment, end to end. They'll tell you it's 99% passion and 1% talent — I say leave the talent at the door and give it 100% heart. All gas, no brakes. It all runs on one thing: grit.
What I do — deeply, and end to end.
Four disciplines I've shipped production systems in. The real leverage is combining them: intelligent, verifiable systems most teams can only build half of.
AI / ML
Decentralized AI on Bittensor and applied AI products with real users — subnet miner/validator architecture, RAG, knowledge graphs, agents and automation across healthcare, sales and fashion.
Blockchain & DeFi
Smart contracts, MEV-resistant launchpads, DEXs, staking and ZK privacy across six chains — plus low-latency arbitrage, sniping, copy-trading and prediction-market systems with trustless settlement.
Full-Stack Web
Production React/Next.js apps with SSR, real-time UX and interactive canvas — from BFF architecture and Shopify commerce to pixel-level polish, backed by solid API and data design.
Cybersecurity
Hardened deployments, monitored inference and threat-modeled protocols managing real value — security engineered in from the first commit, never bolted on. I think like an attacker and catch the expensive bugs.
A decade shipping for companies that ship.
From a Microsoft internship to backend at scale, crypto infrastructure at Coinbase, a startup CTO seat, and now decentralized AI at OtterChain.
Lead delivery of decentralized-AI systems on Bittensor: built Vidaio (Subnet 85 — AI video upscaling scored on VMAF/PieAPP), Score Vision (football Game-State Recognition), and the Resilabs real-estate-intelligence subnet. Shipped production AI SaaS — Nexora (24/7 lead automation) and DermaIQ (AI wound-care). As CTO, own engineering standards, delivery and client outcomes across the studio.
Set the technical direction and shipped the studio's flagship DeFi infrastructure: the Ethereum (Flashbots) and Solana (Jito) bundling launchpads, the VolumeX ZK-privacy protocol, the first DEX on Kaspa's UTXO chain, and the Polymarket–Kalshi arbitrage engine. Built and led the engineering team.
Owned high-throughput services on the exchange's settlement and wallet infrastructure — low-latency order and transaction pipelines, idempotent money-movement flows, and the observability and failover work that keeps value-bearing systems online at scale.
Nearly three years on distributed cloud services — designed idempotent, horizontally-scaled APIs and the retry / queue / backpressure patterns behind them, and learned first-hand what production-grade reliability and security actually cost.
Earned the internship on merit and converted it into a full-time offer — shipped real features into production services alongside senior engineers, on code that millions of users depend on.
My first paid engineering work — built custom Shopify apps, Liquid themes and checkout extensions for e-commerce clients, funding my way through university and learning to ship for real, paying customers.
27 projects, delivered end-to-end.
Independent and client work — decentralized AI, DeFi launch infrastructure, trading systems and full-stack apps. Newest first. Filter by discipline, or tap any card for the case study.
Founders and CTOs who shipped with me.
A few of the people who trusted me with the systems their business runs on.
Grit is the whole story.
I was born a normal kid with serious problems — grit is what changed everything. A few notes on the philosophy that rewrote my life and how it can rewrite yours.
Some folks swear success is 99% passion and 1% talent. I don't buy it. For me it's 100% passion, all day — heart over hype, all gas and no brakes. Talent might get you to the game, but passion is what leaves it all on the field and takes the W. So don't tell me the odds: nothing is impossible.
— Vlady, on the grind that built 27 shipped projects
Have something ambitious to build?
A Bittensor subnet, a DeFi launchpad, an AI product or a full-stack platform — I take it from idea to production. A decade-plus of shipping says I'll get it done.