High-Traffic Media Platforms
News portals and publishing systems engineered for millions of readers — resilient under traffic spikes, fast to edit, and built for editorial teams that ship around the clock.
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Senior Web Engineer · 20+ years
Scalable Web Platforms for Media, Business and E-Commerce
20+ years building high-traffic platforms, custom CMS systems and cloud-native infrastructures using Laravel, Drupal and Kubernetes.
20+Years building the web
60+High-traffic platforms shipped
500M+Monthly requests served
20+Years building the web
500M+Monthly requests served
99.95%Uptime on managed clusters
~/istislav/deploy
deployment.yaml
ArticleController.php
# news-platform · production cluster
apiVersion: apps/v1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
name: edge-web
spec:
replicas: 12
strategy: { type: RollingUpdate }
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: laravel-octane
image: registry/istislav:8.3
resources:
requests: { cpu: "500m" }
autoscaling: $HPA # 12 → 80 pods
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Istislavplatform coreVue.js/Nuxt.js SSR
LLM integration
K8s/Docker
Rediscache & session
MySQL/PostgreSQL
Elasticsearch
20+Years building the web
60+High-traffic platforms shipped
500M+Monthly requests served
99.95%Uptime on managed clusters
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What I do
From front-end to infrastructure — engineered to scale
Five focus areas where two decades of production experience turn ambitious ideas into platforms that stay fast under real-world load.
Business Automation Systems
Custom CRM, CMS and admin panels modelled on how your business actually runs — replacing spreadsheets, manual hand-offs and brittle internal tools.
LaravelVue 3InertiaPostgreSQL
Cloud-Native Infrastructure & Kubernetes
Containerized workloads, automated CI/CD and Kubernetes orchestration that cut downtime, survive failures, and scale on demand instead of on panic.
KubernetesDockerCI/CDHelm
E-Commerce & Catalog Platforms
Online stores, large product catalogs and B2B marketplaces tuned for conversion and throughput — from checkout to warehouse integrations.
LaravelNuxt.jsStripeElasticsearch
AI-Assisted Automation
LLM integrations, workflow automation and self-hosted AI tooling that remove repetitive work and put your data to use — without shipping it to third parties.
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