Ivan Vitiaev
Hands-on CTO & CAIO
I build and scale high-load distributed systems, algorithmic trading engines, and resilient microservices. Over 12+ years turning complex engineering bottlenecks into robust, sub-second architectures.
About Me
I am a hands-on Chief Technology Officer and Systems Architect with over 12 years of engineering leadership, building and scaling mission-critical platforms from zero to hundreds of thousands of users — across distributed microservices, low-latency quantitative trading engines, enterprise data platforms, and high-concurrency VoIP infrastructure.
My current focus is applied AI in production: autonomous agentic workflows, MCP (Model Context Protocol) infrastructure, multimodal vision pipelines such as neural raster-to-passport blueprint processing, and semantic search engines for high-stakes enterprise environments — deterministic control layers, rigorous multi-agent feedback loops, and data ingestion pipelines designed to survive production realities.
I lead code-first: I regularly write Rust, Python, and TypeScript, design resilient database schemas, and enforce sub-60-second commit-to-production pipelines.
Why this independent site exists: Over time, I have been banned across virtually every major corporate social platform — Reddit (2 bans), LinkedIn (1 ban), and X (1 ban). Centralized networks increasingly penalize directness, algorithmic dissent, and unfiltered technical truths. Rather than navigating capricious platform policies, shadowbans, or corporate gatekeeping, I built this self-hosted digital home. No third-party platform can shut down this domain, censor technical postmortems, or revoke access to my research, benchmarks, and real-world code.
Core Expertise & Technical Arsenal
Career Experience & Companies
Proven track record of technical leadership and hands-on systems architecture.
Chief Technology Officer
Ran end-to-end engineering across distributed products and quantitative trading platforms.
- Shipped 6 products scaling to 200,000+ active users.
- Built a high-frequency market-making engine on Polymarket (Rust): quoting, hedging, risk limits, on-chain settlement.
- Established a sub-60-second commit-to-production CI/CD culture.
- Led cross-functional teams across backend, frontend, and smart contract development.
Lead Architect & Team Lead
Technical architecture for large-scale enterprise analytics and government data platforms.
- Architected high-throughput data processing workflows for Rosstat (National Statistical Agency).
- Built distributed query services handling complex aggregations over millions of records.
- Automated regression suites and CI pipelines for mission-critical services.
Senior Software Engineer
Core backend services and client libraries for distributed tools and desktop synchronization software.
- Designed multi-threaded client software with low memory footprint and atomic file sync.
- Authored automated test suites and cross-platform native plugins.
What I've Built Before & RnD
Selected systems, algorithmic trading engines, and open-source research.
Draw Scan AI
Engineering drawing digitization pipeline turning raster blueprints and archives into structured "drawing passports" with semantic search, object relationship detection, and instant duplicate discovery.
Safe Search MCP
MCP normalization layer for AI agents: keeps sensitive web data (URLs, emails, phones) outside LLM context during reasoning to prevent link hallucination and guarantee verifiable citations.
Polymarket Market Making & Prediction Engine
High-frequency market-making and predictive order-book execution service: automated risk management, hedging, on-chain settlement. Continuous live production run with positive PnL.
StratX FinTech Real-Time Core
Transaction processing engine re-architected under heavy concurrent load: end-to-end pipeline latency 1s → under 100ms.
Betacall VoIP Dialing Engine
SIP dialer and queue management system handling thousands of concurrent calls; agent call throughput +300%.
Procurement Control
Automated supplier discovery cutting procurement cycles from months to days: raw-material analysis, cross-registry search, personalized outreach (2 enterprise pilots in CIS + MENA).
LLAMA Manager
A lightweight manager for installing, switching, and running different versions of llama.cpp, with model management and engine configuration in one place.
Get in Touch
Available for advisory, CTO-level systems consulting, and high-impact distributed architecture problems. Email is the fastest and most direct way to reach me.