Open to full-time roles, Amsterdam or remote
I'm Artem. I've been shipping software for the web for fifteen years: seven at Booking.com, two running three teams at LiveJournal, and lately a lot of building with AI agents. Including a pig that lives on my desktop.
A small 3D pixel pig that lives on my desktop, with a Claude Code agent for a brain. It reads my mail, calendar and chats through narrow tools, keeps track of what I've promised people, and does nothing in the world until I say yes. It's how I learn, hands-on, what an agent should and shouldn't do on its own. Also it hops when you pet it.
Code on GitHubExam practice for people moving to the Netherlands. Co-founded and built end to end: learner app, teacher admin, payments.
Visit the siteCompares AI models on price, speed and benchmarks. I built it to pick models for real work; 22 people starred it.
Open the toolA Windows app that keeps a live voice line to Gemini while you play, sees your screen if you let it, and answers in an in-game overlay.
Download and demoAn npm package that pulls usable JSON out of whatever an LLM actually returned. Small, boring, saves hours.
Code on GitHubMy whole Telegram history, self-hosted and searchable, with a sync agent that keeps it current.
Code on GitHubNobody asked for these. They're how I find out what a technology can really do.
A clock that looks out the window
A Raspberry Pi clock whose painted landscape follows the real sun, moon and weather. Rain slants in the wind, the town lights up at night.
Voxels, but watercolor
An OpenGL viewer in C++ for MagicaVoxel models and Minecraft schematics, with four render modes. Plus a Minecraft terrain generator to feed it.
Volume Gamma
Can Claude compose music, from code, that's worth listening to? A week of experiments later: a twelve-track Minecraft-style album, on YouTube.
The racing games I grew up with, rebuilt in Godot 4. All-new code that loads tracks and cars from your own old Need for Speed install.
A dice game about knowing when to stop, grown into a seven-opponent circuit with a card draft. Playable in the browser.
Baritone-grade Minecraft pathfinding for Mineflayer bots, in TypeScript: twenty movement types, parkour included.
2023 – now
BasisExamenOnline with one partner: the product, the stack, Stripe, the users. Also the part I underrated as an engineer: selling it.
2017 – 2024
Three product teams in Amsterdam. 50+ A/B experiments with product, design and analytics, shipped and watched in production.
2015 – 2017
Three teams in Moscow. Hiring, weekly mentoring, in-house courses, the move to React and from SVN to Git and Docker.
2011 – 2015
Node.js backends for social games, and a vaccine research institute's website in Rails.
I'd rather run the experiment than read the benchmark. Fifty A/B tests teach you how often the obvious answer is wrong.
Clarify the problem, ship something real, then decide. A working thing ends more arguments than a slide deck.
If I build it, you'll know how it works and why. That goes double for AI.