Platforms built to scale
A selection of high-traffic platforms, custom CMS engines and cloud-native systems I've architected and shipped over 20+ years.
Afisha.rs afisha.rs
Cultural events & ticketing discovery platform
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Deliver a content-heavy events & ticketing platform with sub-second rendering and perfect Core Web Vitals — without the bloat of heavy frameworks.
Built a custom decoupled Content Construction Kit engine inspired by enterprise Drupal, with aggressive Redis serialization of compiled entities and a strict zero-external-dependency manifest (local fonts, self-hosted assets).
Perfect 100/100 PageSpeed & Core Web Vitals, near-zero database overhead, and a clear path to a Flutter mobile app via a headless REST API.
Amas Energy
Global B2B industrial expo & web directory
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Keep a global B2B industrial expo & directory current across major Drupal generations — with zero downtime and low latency worldwide.
Upgraded the core through Drupal 8 → 9 → 10 → 11 with full backward compatibility, optimized PHP / MariaDB / Elasticsearch, and ran it on GCP + Kubernetes autoscaling.
Zero-downtime version upgrades and a globally responsive, dynamically scalable platform.
Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda radiokp.ru · teleprogramma.pro
High-traffic media & radio network
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Legacy WordPress infrastructure could not handle traffic growth across a network of high-traffic news portals.
Migrated to a unified enterprise Drupal CMS core and a containerized Docker / Kubernetes infrastructure with GitLab CI/CD, Redis, Elasticsearch and distributed MySQL behind Nginx load balancing.
Scaled to up to 4 million daily visitors with high availability, powering 10+ automated sister news sites on a single engine.
Union of Writers of Russia sprf.ru
Cultural institution platform
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Modernize a cultural institution's platform and lift its SEO and Core Web Vitals.
Built an optimized Nuxt.js / Vue.js frontend and refactored backend and API integration layers for long-term stability.
Faster rendering, stronger SEO and an independently sustainable platform.
Alfa-Bank
Banking web portal
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Build a modern, component-driven web portal for one of Russia's largest banks.
Developed the Alfa-Bank web portal front-end on React.js with a maintainable component architecture.
A modern, reusable banking portal UI built for long-term maintainability.
Forbes Russia forbes.ru
Premium media publishing — Forbes, OK! Magazine, GEO
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Maintain and evolve a portfolio of premium, high-traffic media brands (forbes.ru, ok-magazine.ru, geo.ru) under constant editorial load.
Developed and supported multi-brand publishing platforms on Drupal and Yii, balancing editorial flexibility with front-end performance.
Stable, fast publishing for flagship Russian media titles read by millions.
At-Med
Hospital CMS & telemedicine portal
Hospitals needed a content management system plus remote video consultation between patients and doctors.
Built a custom third-tier CMS (Apache, PHP, jQuery) and a telemedicine portal using Drupal and Apache OpenMeetings video conferencing.
A working hospital CMS with remote patient–doctor video counseling.
Utkonos utkonos.ru
High-load grocery e-commerce
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A read-only goods catalog engine had to become a full online shop able to serve millions of customers a day.
Re-architected the catalog into a complete e-commerce platform, tuning the engine and server topology for very high load.
Sustained several million users per day for one of Russia's largest grocery retailers.
O-key.ru o-key.ru
Online shop built from scratch
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Launch a brand-new online shop from scratch, with full commerce and back-office.
Built a custom engine (PHP, MySQL) with the storefront plus an admin for procurement, documents and pricing — engineered for search-engine visibility.
A fully operational, SEO-optimized online shop with a complete back-office.
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