Baseline tech is under control, so the challenges now are: - How to fit together Polygon Supernets, the new token2020 Solana’s NFT, gaming on Ronin chain, and Bittensor genAI into a valuable product for web2 users.- Do it the same not intrusive way that Hyperledger has entered into the enterprise scene.- And avoiding the bad influence of the early days crypto scam narrative with all those flashy landings. Haven’t even started on the landing btw, the peak of the Gartner curve is crowded by AGI* stuff.For Web3 it's an adoption time!* Just give it a little bit more time and in the same way we all emerge into l/acc simulation utopia or Landian meltdown who knows (personally, as a part of a tech community I'm focusing on the first scenario)

In some unimaginable way, the unpredictable whirlwind of geopolitical currents swept me up and deposited me at the right time and place, where absolutely all of my previous experiences and interests have melded together.I am now providing consulting and participating in the R&D of a Chromium-based web3 native browser, aimed at seamlessly transitioning web2 users to web3 and crypto-native environments without them even realizing it.Bringing all my DevOps and enterprise background to the fore, I'm building a backend application runtime environment and an analytical data processing platform from day zero.In my cherished techy-hacking role, I'm fully immersed, absorbing the unique business, management, and adtech experiences of my teammates.This is the place where the future becomes reality, crafted by our hands.

Joined as a part-time developer, I almost immediately found myself leading and managing a Chromium-based gaming browser project. This project became the turning point, transforming a small dev team into a 120+ employee software integrator.Software outsourcing is tough but gave me a unique chance to explore _every_ possible technology, and a later shift to DevOps services revealed how large software platforms operate. Looking back, it was a speedrun from nerdy dev to business partner, constantly bouncing between business and tech.By day, I'm designing enterprise big data architectures or wrapping up government contracts; by night, I'm delving into Solana's transaction history, assessing whether Spark or dbt better fits our DWH data flow.Putting it all together I have initiated the development and launch of a platform data-processing as a self-hosted and SaaS product. We've entered into a strategic partnership with cloud hosting providers and software distributors. Thus, I've started the process of transforming a service business into a product-oriented one.

The key achievement of this position was merging software outsourcing and DevOps services into a solid software integrator. At that time, our DevOps branch had grown to a scale where it could be the main business. So, with the dev team, I shifted focus to software infrastructures. Time for enterprise stuff, no more Rabbit or Kafka, it is called ESB now. Data flow diagrams of ETL rivers in the Data Lake sinking into DWH, with the whole bunch of big data Pokemons (not a clickbait, the best online test ever, non-tech friendly https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/). One of the projects included Hyperledger as a distributed ledger for accounting between parties. And it was 2019, blockchain was not a hype anymore, sliding up to a Gartner curve plateau. No one even noticed the transition the same will be(already is) with Web3.After accumulating infrastructure experience I extracted Data Engineering as a separate direction and led a series of data platform integrations in the enterprise and government sectors. That allowed me to distill our expertise and start working on our own data platform product.

Web and Mobile OutsourcingPrevious projects have allowed us to build a strong, wide-skilled team. Several levels of management have appeared, and I have jumped into management stuff fully. I have been working with clients, curating the whole cycle from the presale to project completion, and at the same time, building internal processes. Software outsourcing is tough, broad-scope development especially. Craving for margin, it's easy to build yet another overselling sweatshop.Not in my case, taking into account our deep tech expertise and trying to avoid the overselling trap, I figured out the "Cloud Developer" model. This model is simple: pay for the exact expertise needed at the moment. Instead of one developer juggling front/back/ops roles slowly, or tripling costs for a full team, you get a "Cloud Developer".Internally it will be a trio of highly skilled engineers, shared across projects but seamlessly integrated as needed by a project manager. It is hard to manage, and hard to sell but it's worth it. Meanwhile, we surpassed the 50-employee magic number - the point where remembering everyone's name becomes a challenge. Outsourcing has driven sufficient revenue to expand our DevOps and invest in internal projects, most noticeably a custom Telegram client adapted to our DevOps business processes.Web3 BoomThe ICO bubble, Uniswap launch, the cheapest electricity in the world in my "mining capital" city (thanks to the aluminum plant). I dived into Solidity and ERC20/ICO mechanics, we completed several web3 projects. Even an MVP of a geo-tracking run2mint mobile app, based on Bitshare's PoS fork (I have no idea how it's possible, but again, years before STEPN appeared). Ending with dry-running our growing data platform on the ethereum-etl dataset, we just needed some huge dataset for testing. If someone from our team had had product experience at that time, I think we could have easily shared the blockchain analytics market with Dune and Nansen.

Chromium-based gaming browser"Seems we have found a client, and have a budget to hire some C++ coders" - WAT? And suddenly, nerdy me found himself leading and managing a project based on one of the biggest OSS codebases (me and my team at that time, no kidding: https://xkcd.com/303/).And on top of it, we did literally crazy tech: running Windows' time-killer games' executables right inside the browser, natively, offering the same user experience as Flash or HTML5. Something like, five years before WASM appeared (And still, there's no in-browser Minecraft! TeaVM is the only hope.)It was a trick, of course, off-screen rendering on a virtual desktop, streaming pixel buffer to the browser, and controls from the browser to the app. But it worked so amazingly well that our client even applied for a US patent. The only blocker was the insanely high rates of US lawyers.First team-leading experience, first management experience. First hirings, first firings, rapid growth from a three-dev team to a 15-person outsourced branch, consisting of web and native departments. And AdTech, it was all about driving traffic, so for me it was the first touch of real business: an opportunity to see the flow of money. But from a tech perspective: "ok, we need to draw different installer UI depending on traffic source, IWebBrowser2 with IE6 support!". The Electron project was started literally _the same year_(we had no idea about it).Android app emulatorWindows games inside a browser - done. Ok, now we need to go deeper, let's run Android games on Windows. With a team, apart from management, I dug into the Android Linux kernel, trying to route OpenGL(GLES) calls through IPC to the Windows GPU driver, again WAAAT. Just consider the context: a small team of nerds in the middle of Siberia, trying to patch a kernel that long snowy nights. And we did it. Same time Bluestacks emulator was launched, comparing their dev team size to ours - ah, that feeling of hacking exelence!

Development of in-house *nix monitoring agent:At the time when the LAMP stack was everywhere, a friend of mine asked me for some pure C hacking. I was like, "Okay, it fits me."That feeling of researching the fdisk source code to figure out block device naming the way, it would work on CentOS, AWS Linux, and FreeBSD. Wow! Much better than yet another boring PHP homepage. This agent became a building block of the in-house monitoring system, the core of the whole DevOps business for years.And the fun part here, it was the same year Prometheus appeared at SoundCloud. I'm not sure who was first (Zabbix, definitely), but anyway, "I was coding node exporters before it became mainstream."OSS archaeology time, I think this one didn't fit AWS block device names (/dev/xvda and so on): https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/blob/v2.15/fdisk/fdiskbsdlabel.c#L664. So, fdisk didn't help, it only validated that a hardcoded enumeration is okay.