Julik Tarkhanov • Software engineering with a knack for style.
The way I work, plainly.
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Less tech is better.
Do you really need three data stores and twenty services? A single database and a single source of truth usually gets you further, with fewer people minding it.
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I love existing codebases.
Your app did its job — it is to be respected, not scolded. I do surgical interventions instead of sweeping rewrites.
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Rails is great for LLMs.
Terse code means less to ingest. I structure libraries and docs so a model is productive from the very first prompt.
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I know when to go off the rails.
Playbooks only accommodate the known. I take the side alley when it gets you there sooner — with care, and on purpose.
Recent work & honest mileage.
A consultancy of one, with two decades of receipts. Before software there was film — which is where I learned that deadlines and budgets are facts, not failures.
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WeTransfer
High-throughput storage services; managed the owning team. Cut cloud spend by a wide margin.
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Cheddar
Shipped key features and led a team of four. Deploys went from an hour to single digits.
- Cora Doubled fleet utilisation and made processing workflows atomic and boring. Case study
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Media startup
ActiveStorage extensions, a custom player, and a vector paint engine from scratch.