Ilya P.

Senior full-stack engineer and team lead with 20+ years of experience. I specialize in real-time video / WebRTC streaming and in AI/ML systems that ship to production. I currently lead engineering at a live-video startup, where I architect streaming, scalable real-time chat, and AI features across the entire stack. Across my career I've built high-load platforms, custom HTML5 video players, and developer tooling serving thousands of concurrent users. I can help you with two things in particular: Real-time video & streaming: WebRTC, live streaming, HLS, HTML5 and custom video players, low-latency media pipelines, and scalable chat. AI/ML engineering: LLM-powered apps, MCP servers & plugins, autonomous agents and workflows, RAG with vector databases, model fine-tuning (Hugging Face, PyTorch, LoRA/PEFT), and reinforcement learning (training models and building custom RL environments). Core stack: TypeScript/JavaScript, Go, Python, Rust, Node.js, React, Next.js; PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis; Google Cloud, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes. Open-source author: I created and maintain StateFlow (stateflow.dev) — a type-safe, predictable state-management library for TypeScript, running in production at the company I lead. What you get working with me: clean, testable, production-grade code; clear communication; and a senior engineer who can both lead the architecture and do the hands-on work to ship it. Building a video product, an AI/LLM feature, or an autonomous agent or need a senior lead to take something from idea to launch? Send me a message with a few details about your project and I'll tell you exactly how I'd approach it.