Aleksei Ivanov

Founder of Multify, an automated website translation and localization service for international companies.

I am a software engineer with 15+ years of experience. I focus on system architecture and shipping resilient products that are a joy to use.

Beyond building products, I am drawn to foundational computer science: how complex behavior emerges from simple rules, and how to build systems that organize themselves.

Currently working on

Multify

Automated website translation platform that helps businesses expand globally

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Lavoro

Background task scheduling library with fluent, type-safe API & support for multiple drivers

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Latest from the blog

17 Feb, 2026 Feeding the system that feeds us
Ever thought about why a strip of social media posts is called a feed? It sort of being fed to you, if you look at it from the distance.

I’m not saying this is necessarily bad, you can curate your feed, pick and choose which bits to chew. The important thing is that you are being deliberate about it.

On the other hand, people on the platform have to feed the system in order for it to function properly and feed others.

We are supposed to be indie web here, being on bearblog and all. But it is still very tempting to take a bite out of that feed from time to time.

That’s enough of metaphors for today.

Other posts:

17 Feb, 2026 Feeding the system that feeds us
16 Feb, 2026 Running on fumes
16 Feb, 2026 We need more self-reliant educational products
15 Feb, 2026 Destroyer of worlds
14 Feb, 2026 Sovereignty of open-source software
13 Feb, 2026 Write your own book
12 Feb, 2026 Balance of abstraction
11 Feb, 2026 Destructive criticism
10 Feb, 2026 Be wary of the hype (cycle)
09 Feb, 2026 Everything is not perfect
08 Feb, 2026 Is design important?

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Pet projects

From time to time, apart from programming, I also dabble in digital electronics:

VR controller prototype based on ESP8266 (2019)

In this project I was tinkering with ESP8266, making it connect to the PC over Wi-Fi. I used it for emulation of an HTC Vive VR controller through VRidge API over ZeroMQ protocol. During the process I also wrote a simplified ZMQ client that can run on Arduino.

GitHub
Hardware VGM chiptune music player (2018)

Hardware player that plays chiptune music in VGM format. In particular, it uses SN76489 chip to play music using up to 4 square-wave voices. The repository contains tool written in JavaScript that proxies the raw VGM byte stream to the Arduino along with the firmware that controls SN76489.

GitHub
Hardware and software design of an LED matrix display from scratch (2018)

This is my first digital device that I have designed from scratch: from schematics and hardware communication protocol, to the low-level display driver. The final result is an Arduino project that uses this driver software to control the display and play animations.

GitHub

Talks

Comparative analysis of cloud gaming services and streaming technologies (2020)

In this project I compared cloud gaming services by testing their bandwidth usage, latency, and adaptation algorithms using Wireshark. I analyzed five services (Parsec, Steam Remote Play, Moonlight, GeForce NOW, and Google Stadia) and reviewed the evolution of cloud gaming from 2010 to 2020.

Slides Paper
Interactive dashboard for phenological data monitoring across Germany (2020)

In this project I built an interactive dashboard to monitor phenological data across Germany. I developed a data pipeline that processes open data from the DWD, created a methodology to formalize text phase descriptions into comparable numeric values, and visualized the results using Grafana.

Slides Paper GitHub
Systematic hyperparameter tuning for deep Q‑learning agents (2020)

In this study I systematically tested how hyperparameters affect deep Q‑learning agent performance. I experimented with memory size, discount factors, and vision range in a custom grid world environment. I gained some new insights about possible new approaches for adaptive memory.

Slides Paper