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End-to-end development
Web products, marketplaces, auctions, SaaS — from MVP to production, solo or with a team.
→ A working product, infrastructure and documentation.
Co-founder & CTO, ONIIR
I build products and teams, and bring AI into business
I’m Dmitry Kucher, an engineering leader. I take products from idea to production: architecture, team, process and code. I’ve shipped products for the US, UK, European and Russian markets.
- years in software
- 14
- years in software
- engineers in teams I’ve led
- 30
- engineers in teams I’ve led
- products launched from scratch
- 6+
- products launched from scratch
How I can help
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Fractional CTO
Architecture, hiring and team building, engineering process, CI/CD.
→ A team that ships reliably without your micromanagement.
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Audits and rescues
Code and architecture review, performance, migrations to a modern stack, Docker and Kubernetes.
→ A clear plan: what to fix, in what order and at what cost.
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AI and automation
Speech analytics, voice bots, AI assistants, quality control, dashboards.
→ Processes that run without manual busywork.
Case studies
Products I built and grew as an engineer, engineering lead and CTO.
ONIIR
Role: Co-founder & CTO
An AI automation integrator: we bring AI into every business process, from calls to analytics.
- —Automated analysis of calls and chats, sales quality control
- —Voice bots and an AI chat for customers
- —AIST, a corporate messenger with AI agents
- —Analytics and dashboards for management
Stack:
- LLM
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- React
- Supabase
- Docker
Sceenic
Role: Team Lead, Web
SDKs for co-watching and group video calls inside OTT and Smart TV apps. The product is used by BT Sport, LaLiga and Movistar+.
- —Built and led the web team; shipped new versions of every company WebRTC SDK
- —Built chat, community and a WebRTC CDN from scratch, each with its own SDK
- —Guides and documentation with live examples for every SDK
- —Architecture for running the SDKs on mobile via web view and native
- —Worked directly with customers on launches and integrations
Stack:
- WebRTC
- TypeScript
- JavaScript SDK
- Node.js
- React
AutoBidMaster, ClearVIN, EasyHaul, SalvageBid
Role: Director of Software Engineering
A family of services for buying cars at Copart auctions: online bidding, VIN reports, worldwide shipping.
- —Opened the Saint Petersburg engineering office and hired 12 people
- —Introduced CI/CD across all projects
- —Moved every frontend to React and put Node.js services on stable releases
- —Organized support and feature teams around business goals
Stack:
- PHP
- Node.js
- React
- Docker
- MySQL
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
AutoAuctionMall
- Auction from scratch
- Scrapers
- Kubernetes
AutoAuctionMall
Role: Engineering lead
An aggregator of US car auction inventory with online bidding and financing.
- —Built the auction platform from scratch
- —A scraper and parser system to keep in sync with external marketplaces
- —Hired a team of 4 developers, set up CI/CD and Kubernetes deploys
Stack:
- Meteor
- React
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
- Stripe
- Kubernetes
Project closed
HULQ
- Every US vehicle
- Configurator
- 4 services
HULQ
Role: Engineering lead
A US car-lease marketplace where dealers compete to send the customer their best offer.
- —Four independent services built to spec
- —Dealer and customer dashboards
- —A catalog of every US vehicle and a configurator with all exterior and interior options
- —Search analytics for managers
Stack:
- Node.js
- React
- PHP
- Docker
- GKE
- MongoDB
- Elasticsearch
Project closed
DirectLiquidation & VIPOutlet
Role: Head of Web Development
B2B wholesale auctions and a B2C store for refurbished goods from major US retailers.
- —Built both platforms from scratch, integrated with the internal refurbished-goods system
- —Auction modules, search and analytics on Elasticsearch
- —Built 4 teams (backend, frontend, QA) of about 30 people
Stack:
- PHP
- Magento
- MySQL
- Elasticsearch
- Redis
- RabbitMQ
- GKE
Open source
I send fixes upstream to the projects I use.
Merged pull requests
What I’m into
- —Realtime and video: WebRTC, chat, SDKs
- —Game engines and browser games
- —Developer tools
- —LLM infrastructure and AI agents
How we work
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Intro call
We go through the problem and business goals, 30–60 minutes.
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Estimate and plan
Architecture, milestones, timeline and budget — in writing.
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Kickoff
I assemble a team or join yours and set up the process.
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Regular demos
You see working results every one or two weeks.
Engagements: fixed-price project, hourly, or ongoing fractional CTO.
Let’s talk about your project
Describe the task in a couple of sentences — I’ll reply with a next step.