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I'm Grigory, a product engineer.

I lead engineering at SQUAKE. Companies book their travel through agencies; we collect that data, turn it into reporting they can actually use — spend, travel patterns, emissions — and buy and retire the carbon credits that cover it. Nine years of Rails and payments, mostly at startups. I live in Barcelona.

Evenings I build my own things. Right now that's Omas Cloud, a metrics backend, Siftbase, which turns messy file uploads into clean datasets, and Waytale, AI audio guides for city walks.

I write mostly about shipping under pressure: the shortcuts, and whether they were worth it.

Writing

2026-08-04AI adoption in a small team2026-01-06The Slot Machine of Shipping2025-12-30Poor Man's Solutions: Convenient in-memory cache2025-10-10Poor Man's Solutions: Building Fast Under Pressure2025-09-25Ditch the FOMO scroll

Projects

2026-08-02Omas CloudMetrics backend — push time-series, slice by dimensions, get alarms that fire only when state actually changes2026-07-31SiftbaseTurns messy file uploads into schema-aligned datasets, with AI-drafted pipelines you review before they run2025-10-26WaytaleAI audio guides for city walks, built around what you're interested in rather than a fixed routeall projects

Work

2021 – nowSQUAKELead Software Engineer2019 – 2021SkyNetworkSenior Software Engineer2017 – 2019The Digital PandaSoftware Engineerfull history