I'm Viktor — CTO and founding engineer at AcademyOcean, an AI-powered SaaS LMS I've been building from scratch for 9 years. I wrote roughly 85% of the MVP myself and lead a team of 9 engineers. Today the platform serves 1M+ learners and has delivered north of 20M lessons.
On the side I run a small iOS studio — Darkmaster's Pottery, AI-Buddy, and Breathing all live on the App Store — and an AI CRM that automates candidate sourcing for recruiting teams. Different products, same operating principle: ship small, observe, iterate.
I was born in Odesa, Ukraine, and write this from Spain. The last few years rewired what I think production-ready means; I value systems that survive contact with reality over architecture astronaut diagrams. I prefer to read the logs.
My stack is whatever the problem deserves — Rust when it's hot path, Go when it's a service, Python when it's an agent, Swift when it's an iPhone, Postgres until it really won't scale. I write code on Mondays and review it on Fridays.
AI-powered SaaS LMS. Built from scratch as founding engineer; ~85% of the MVP code is mine. ~1M learners, ~20M lessons, 9-engineer team.
Seven apps shipped solo in Swift through darkmasters-pottery.com — AI Buddy, Breathe On, CelebrateAI, Habit Tracker, Photo Cleaner, Glucose Track, Quit Smoking. Designed, coded, submitted alone.
AI-powered candidate sourcing for in-house recruiting teams: agentic search, automated outreach, retrieval-augmented profile context. In private beta.