About
I've been coding since I was 10, working in tech since 16. Ten years of that has been commercial software engineering.
I ran a parallel track alongside dev work for couple of years: a Russian-language YouTube channel that grew to ~30,000 subscribers between 2020 and 2024 — coding tutorials at first, later self-improvement, habits and discipline.
During that time I've built Creatly - LMS for small online creators who want to distribute their knowledge and build proper educational products. I've documented the process of building it online and made it open-source. My own online courses were hosted on this platform.
In 2022 I've started trading, then discovered prop firms and made an additional income out of that. This side hustle became a separate media project. In the late 2025 I've realised that I don't want to work on that project anymore, so I sold it and focused again on engineering, tech and AI.
In 2025 I launched a B2C SaaS — trading journal, vibe-coded in a week. It worked: paying customers within first 24 hours. Then I did the math on what it would actually take to reach real revenue in a niche where most traders lose money and churn fast, and closed it on purpose. The full story is here.
Now I'm building Cadenflow full-time — done-for-you AI customer support for Shopify e-commerce brands.
The rest of what I've built, open source and otherwise, is on the Work page.