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Alex Pugachev / Product-minded software engineer

I take ideas to production

Product-minded software engineer with more than six years of experience turning ambiguous product needs into reliable web, mobile, and backend systems.

Frontend depth End-to-end ownership Production responsibility

Product system /01—04
  1. 01

    Interface

    Usable flows

  2. 02

    Services

    Dependable behaviour

  3. 03

    Data

    Durable state

  4. 04

    Delivery

    Release and observe

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About

Across boundaries

My strongest work happens where technical choices meet real-world context. Correctness matters, but so do clarity, trade-offs, and the effect a change has beyond the code.

That can mean crossing from a customer-facing flow into data models, billing, internal tools, release mechanics, and operations. I treat those layers as one connected responsibility rather than separate specialties.

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Products

Selected work, with the context that matters

A concise record of what I built, the responsibility I carried, and the technical detail available for each project.

Production productLanguage learning

01

Karteto

Responsibility

The platform spans web and mobile clients, services, subscriptions, internal tools, infrastructure, and operations.

Evidence

  • 20,000 monthly active users
  • Built and launched from zero to production

Technologies

  • React
  • Flutter
  • Go
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis

ExperimentCross-stitch

02

StitchKraft

A web app for designing cross-stitch patterns and tracking stitching progress.

ExperimentConcurrency

03

Concurrency Benchmark

A locally runnable benchmark for comparing the performance of different concurrency runners.

Toolkit

Technology is a set of choices, not an identity

I move across these areas according to constraints, scale, and maturity.

  • 01

    Web

    TypeScript · React · Astro · Storybook

  • 02

    Mobile

    Flutter

  • 03

    Services

    Go · Python · Hono

  • 04

    Runtimes

    Node.js · Bun

  • 05

    Data

    PostgreSQL · SQLite · Redis · Firebase

  • 06

    Product systems

    RevenueCat · Paddle · Internal tools

  • 07

    Delivery

    Docker Swarm · Traefik · Terraform · AWS · GitHub Actions

  • 08

    Monitoring

    Prometheus · Grafana · Loki

  • 09

    Collaboration

    Figma

  • 10

    AI workflows

    Claude Code · Codex