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Alex Yanitskiy

I work where product engineering meets business systems: platform, billing, data, funnels, operations, and constraints. I’m strongest in high-ownership IC roles where one person or a small senior team can turn ambiguity into working systems, measurable feedback loops, and practical business momentum.

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// timeline

1999
2016
2025
now
06

Hands-on product systems

G-Plans -> current
05

Agentic tooling

LLM systems / semantic analysis / agents
04

Scale-up transition

FuturHealth
03

Bootstrapped systems

G-Plans / Moon
02

Operating reality

southern China / suppliers
01

Foundations

programming / physics / web

recent zoom band

2025 - now

// operating style

How I tend to work

A few stable patterns that show up across product, platform, data, and agentic systems.

01 / own the loop

Define the system, ship, instrument, read the evidence, and tighten the next pass.

02 / small teams

Deliver under real budget/headcount constraints without hiding behind platform theater.

03 / economics

Build around payback, retention, checkout risk, pricing, billing, and operational reality.

04 / hands-on

Current focus: agents, LLM workflows, harnesses, voice input, and review surfaces.

// FuturHealth: scale-up, handover, transition

Recent bridge mission

Inherited-stack scale, new-stack migration, US team buildout, then a transition toward high-leverage hands-on engineering in agentic tooling and product systems.

Jan 2025 - Present
FuturHealth

Specialized Consultant

  • Supported inherited platform continuity, active-customer operations, and handover while the pre-FuturHealth stack still carried important production work.
  • Helped transition major capabilities onto the new stack: payments around spring 2025, then funnels and acquisition/customer pipelines around late 2025.
  • Worked across billing, platform reliability, data, funnels, operational execution, and technical decision-making during the team transition.
  • As US leadership stabilized in early 2026, completed the bridge mission and moved focus into high-impact senior IC/small-team work in LLM/agent tooling and internal operating systems.
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
FuturHealth

Senior Vice President of Technology

  • Owned engineering delivery and platform direction during the company seed-stage scale-up.
  • Carried forward pre-FuturHealth technology, team knowledge, and delivery practices into the new startup foundation.
  • Kept the inherited platform stable while the company scaled heavily through 2024 and built a US technical/leadership structure from zero.
  • Balanced platform reliability, handover, hiring/role experiments, organizational pressure, and growth operations.

// G-Plans: first hire to technology lead

Bootstrapped product systems

A long arc of owning product, platform, billing, data, funnels, and production reality under small-team constraints.

Apr 2016
G-Plans

First hire, then full ownership

  • Joined as the first hire and grew into full technology ownership across product, platform, infra, billing, data, funnels, support, and delivery.
  • The operating constraint was small-team reality: architecture had to match cash, headcount, vendor risk, and support capacity.
2018 - 2019
G-Plans

Platform, payments, and production support

  • Hardened the stack into one operating surface: backend, frontend/product workflows, infra/DevOps, production support, release process, internal tools, and billing systems.
  • Built provider-resilient payment behavior with routing, fallback, switching, and risk handling where conventional processors could interrupt or refuse processing.
2020
G-Plans

Funnel economics loop

  • Kept checkout, onboarding, pricing experiments, AOV, early payback, retention, billing behavior, and operational reporting tied together as one revenue loop.
  • Adapted systems repeatedly as the product model, paid acquisition, funnel shape, and first-month retention mechanics changed.
2021 - 2022
G-Plans / Moon

Internal event truth

  • Built a practical data stack around BigQuery, raw events, internal models/layers, attribution continuity, and dbt/Airflow-era analytics engineering patterns.
  • Kept external analytics vendors replaceable by preserving raw ground-truth events and internal reporting continuity.
2023
G-Plans

Compact base for FuturHealth transition

  • The result was not an enterprise platform; it was a compact operating base that could survive pivots, cash constraints, and later handover.
  • That base helped carry early FuturHealth scale and made the later inherited-stack transition possible.

infra

DevOps, deployments, production support, operational control, and small-team maintainability.

funnels

Revenue-critical funnels, checkout, onboarding, pricing experiments, AOV, and retention loops.

payments

Durable billing, provider switching, fallback/routing, payment risk handling, and visibility.

data

BigQuery, raw events, internal models, dbt-style layers, attribution, reporting, and decisions.

Vendor portability

Analytics vendors changed hosting, billing, pricing, and contract shape. The internal event layer protected data integrity and optionality.

Survival economics

Engineering choices were tied directly to acquisition cost, initial AOV, first-month retention, payback, and cash discipline.

FuturHealth base

The result was not an enterprise platform; it was a compact, durable operating stack that could survive pivots and later support handover.

// 2025-2026: agentic development arc

Hands-on agentic tooling

Using LLMs and agents where they make an individual or small senior team more effective: semantic event analysis, operational triage, voice input, isolated workers, harnesses, and review surfaces.

2024
Semantic product analysis

LLM user-event analysis starts

  • Added an LLM reading layer over user-event histories beside the deterministic analytics layer that looks for metrics, outliers, and known patterns.
  • The useful part was discovery: catching product/user problems that were not already anticipated by dashboards, funnels, or hand-written rules.
Spring/Summer 2025
Moon / event analytics revamp

Spec-driven LLM-assisted rebuild

  • Reworked the Moon event-analytics system with LLM assistance, connecting the older raw-events/attribution thread to newer agentic development practices.
  • The output was useful, but the larger lesson was sharper: without tight context boundaries, harnesses, review surfaces, and generated-code discipline, LLM-assisted rebuilds become hard to keep coherent.
Aug - Sep 2025
Internal operations

Agentic triage helper

  • Built practical LLM/helper tooling connected to internal APIs and MCP-style interfaces for investigating users across events, payments, CRM, orders, third-party health providers, alerts, and distributed failures.
  • Moved agents from "write code for me" toward operational diagnosis across real production systems and real user situations.
Sep 2025
Cursor / hands-on workflow

Single-lane agentic development becomes useful

  • Reached a stable personal workflow for one clear task, one bounded agent session, supervised implementation, review, and iteration.
  • Identified the reliable layer: agentic acceleration works best for scoped engineering tasks with strong specs, clear harnesses, and tight review loops.
Oct - Nov 2025
E2B / ephemeral workers

Repo-aware agent environment platform

  • Built a small E2B-based CLI/web platform to spin up project environments outside the local machine and run webhooks, issues, action items, and automations.
  • Explored controlled own-worker execution for compliance-sensitive contexts where vendor-hosted runners are not always the right boundary.
2025 - 2026
Voice input / Mumbli

Speech-to-agent workflow layer

  • Built an initial Qt transcription app in 2025, then revamped it in 2026 into Mumbli, a fast macOS speech-to-text app for turning spoken specs/tasks into agent input.
  • Public repo: github.com/fireharp/mumbli.
2025 - 2026
Wine knowledgebase

Git-driven, source-backed domain repository

  • Built an agent-operable wine knowledgebase for a Valencia store workflow: research new wines, keep citations/sources, run validation checks, and generate site-ready descriptions/details.
  • Explored LangChain/deep-research approaches and ended with a specialized skill-driven repository that can run with Claude, Codex, Hermes, or similar agents; connected WhatsApp to Hermes for store-manager operation.
2026
Multi-agent / software-factory exploration

Multi-lane agents, harnesses, and visual review

  • Exploring multi-agent teams, CI/webhook/event-triggered work, harnesses, context boundaries, verification loops, and structured agent reporting.
  • Built/supports central canvas-like review surfaces where agents show screenshots, working links, structured status, and chart-like output to reduce review load.
Early 2026
Product/business user analysis

Agentic user analysis

  • Current direction: a user can be reopened as a whole situation, with events, sessions, support/workflow threads, business state, and product context in the same agent-readable frame.
  • This is the evolution from semantic event analysis toward agentic product/business analysis: not just finding anomalies, but explaining what is happening and what needs attention.

stable

Single-lane agentic development: bounded task, explicit spec, harness, review, iterate.

promising

Triggered maintenance: CI fixes, webhook checks, issue triage, reports, screenshots, recurring operations.

hard

Open-ended multi-lane product work: bottleneck shifts to context switching, review load, drift, and state coherence.

// earlier timeline

Moon, foundations, selected work

Earlier product, web, data, operations, and education context that explains where the current systems instinct came from.

Apr 2022 - Apr 2023
Moon

Co-founder

  • Built product capabilities end-to-end, connected to funnel events, attribution, reporting, and marketing source/channel scale decisions.
  • Continued the G-Plans raw-events/data lineage: preserve ground truth, explain what happened, and turn funnel/acquisition data into decisions.
Aug 2015 - Aug 2016
Initech Software Services Ltd

Full-stack Web and Hybrid Mobile Developer

  • Built web backends and hybrid mobile apps across delivery, deployment, support, and release follow-through.
Sep 2014 - Jul 2015
Bread Software

Front-end Developer

  • Built modular front-end components, HTML5 canvas tooling, testing practices, and maintainable client-side implementation.
2014 - 2016
Web/product shift

Laravel, infinite canvas, full-stack apps

  • Moved into modern product-facing web systems, HTML5 canvas interfaces, front-end systems, and hybrid mobile work.
2010 - 2014
Small business management

Mobile spare-parts distribution, supplier/factory operations

  • Worked around the southern China production and distribution hub during the iPhone repair boom, including suppliers, factories, logistics, and mobile spare-parts distribution across Shenzhen, Guangdong, and Hong Kong.
2009 - 2010
Starlink Telecom

Junior Programmer

  • University-supervisor-linked role around CORP CRM, Groovy, BPMN, and corporate business-process systems.
2006 - 2012
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology

BSc, Applied Physics and Mathematics

  • Foundation in calculus, physics/process modeling, numerical thinking, mathematical abstraction, and early neural-network experiments.
1999 - 2005
Programming foundations

MTG TCG in Excel/VBA; Delphi; Borland C++

  • Started with a Magic: The Gathering trading-card-game project in Excel and Visual Basic/VBA, then moved into Delphi and Borland C++.

// selected work

coherence

Go CLI that checks whether code, docs, ADRs, and task references stay coherent before commit.

Mumbli

macOS speech-to-text app for dictation and fast agent workflow input.

knify.dev

Website/product surface for agentic developer workflows and usable project output.

Wine Knowledgebase

Git-driven, source-backed wine catalog/research system for store content operations.

// skills

Backend

Django, FastAPI, Node.js, Go

Frontend

React, Vue, TypeScript

Data / infra

PostgreSQL, MySQL, BigQuery, dbt, Airflow-style orchestration, GCP

Systems

Billing, payment routing, funnels, CRM/workflows, production support, product analytics

AI / agents

Cursor, Claude Code and Codex, MCP-style tooling, Hermes, browser harnesses, E2B workers, specs, review canvases

Education

MIPT BSc Applied Physics and Mathematics