π Full-stack Engineer & Tech Lead | π€ AI-native Builder
Building products at the intersection of code and AI agents.
Started as a frontend coder, grew into full-stack, then spent the last 6 years leading engineering teams. Now I'm building my own products β solo and with small teams β using AI as a force multiplier across the whole stack: design, code, infra, content.
Mentor at rs.school β running courses and meetups. Open to public speaking and tech talks.
- Exploring agentic AI systems β multi-agent architectures and how they reshape product development
- Building MCP servers and AI-powered dev workflows
- Self-hosting infrastructure for startup projects
- Mentoring developers and running tech meetups at rs.school
- Building my own products end-to-end β from idea to ship
- π§ Email: novator.dev@gmail.com
- πΌ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/yakovlef
- In IT since 2010 β watched the field change a few times
- Watched jQuery die. And Smarty. And Flash. Still here.
- Remember when "AJAX" was a buzzword and IE6 was the enemy
- Survived the PHP4 β PHP5 migration. And PHP5 β PHP7. Andβ¦ you get it.
- Wrote production code in an era when "deploy" meant FTP
- Coffee-driven development since before it was a meme
β‘ Anything is possible β it's just a matter of time.

