Selected Work

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.

20+Years in production
9Flagship platforms
4M+Peak daily visitors
01

Afisha.rs afisha.rs

Cultural events & ticketing discovery platform

Founder & Principal Solutions Architect 2025 — Present · Belgrade, Serbia
Laravel 12 Inertia.js Vue 3 Backpack Redis Custom CCK
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Challenge

Deliver a content-heavy events & ticketing platform with sub-second rendering and perfect Core Web Vitals — without the bloat of heavy frameworks.

Solution

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).

Result

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.

02

Amas Energy

Global B2B industrial expo & web directory

Senior Lead Web Developer / Solutions Architect 2019 — Present · Miami · Remote
Drupal 11 PHP MariaDB Elasticsearch GCP Kubernetes
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Challenge

Keep a global B2B industrial expo & directory current across major Drupal generations — with zero downtime and low latency worldwide.

Solution

Upgraded the core through Drupal 8 → 9 → 10 → 11 with full backward compatibility, optimized PHP / MariaDB / Elasticsearch, and ran it on GCP + Kubernetes autoscaling.

Result

Zero-downtime version upgrades and a globally responsive, dynamically scalable platform.

03

Radio Komsomolskaya Pravda radiokp.ru · teleprogramma.pro

High-traffic media & radio network

Lead Solutions Architect / DevOps 2021 — Present · Moscow · Remote
Drupal 10 Docker Kubernetes GitLab CI/CD Redis Elasticsearch Nginx Flutter
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Challenge

Legacy WordPress infrastructure could not handle traffic growth across a network of high-traffic news portals.

Solution

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.

Result

Scaled to up to 4 million daily visitors with high availability, powering 10+ automated sister news sites on a single engine.

04

Union of Writers of Russia sprf.ru

Cultural institution platform

Senior Frontend / Full-Stack Developer 2025 — 2026 · Moscow · Remote
Nuxt.js Vue.js Nginx
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Challenge

Modernize a cultural institution's platform and lift its SEO and Core Web Vitals.

Solution

Built an optimized Nuxt.js / Vue.js frontend and refactored backend and API integration layers for long-term stability.

Result

Faster rendering, stronger SEO and an independently sustainable platform.

05

Alfa-Bank

Banking web portal

Leading Programmer 2018 — 2019 · Moscow
React.js JavaScript
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Challenge

Build a modern, component-driven web portal for one of Russia's largest banks.

Solution

Developed the Alfa-Bank web portal front-end on React.js with a maintainable component architecture.

Result

A modern, reusable banking portal UI built for long-term maintainability.

06

Forbes Russia forbes.ru

Premium media publishing — Forbes, OK! Magazine, GEO

Lead Web Developer · ACMG Media Group 2015 — 2018 · Moscow
Drupal Yii PHP MySQL
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Challenge

Maintain and evolve a portfolio of premium, high-traffic media brands (forbes.ru, ok-magazine.ru, geo.ru) under constant editorial load.

Solution

Developed and supported multi-brand publishing platforms on Drupal and Yii, balancing editorial flexibility with front-end performance.

Result

Stable, fast publishing for flagship Russian media titles read by millions.

07

At-Med

Hospital CMS & telemedicine portal

System Architect 2012 — 2015 · Moscow
PHP Apache jQuery Drupal OpenMeetings
Challenge

Hospitals needed a content management system plus remote video consultation between patients and doctors.

Solution

Built a custom third-tier CMS (Apache, PHP, jQuery) and a telemedicine portal using Drupal and Apache OpenMeetings video conferencing.

Result

A working hospital CMS with remote patient–doctor video counseling.

08

Utkonos utkonos.ru

High-load grocery e-commerce

Leading Programmer 2007 — 2012 · Moscow
PHP MySQL Custom Catalog Engine
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Challenge

A read-only goods catalog engine had to become a full online shop able to serve millions of customers a day.

Solution

Re-architected the catalog into a complete e-commerce platform, tuning the engine and server topology for very high load.

Result

Sustained several million users per day for one of Russia's largest grocery retailers.

09

O-key.ru o-key.ru

Online shop built from scratch

Web Developer · STAL 2001 — 2007
PHP MySQL SEO
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Challenge

Launch a brand-new online shop from scratch, with full commerce and back-office.

Solution

Built a custom engine (PHP, MySQL) with the storefront plus an admin for procurement, documents and pricing — engineered for search-engine visibility.

Result

A fully operational, SEO-optimized online shop with a complete back-office.

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