Artem Chaika

Storex

Team Lead·Full‑Stack Engineer·Nov 2025 — present

• Leading a four-person engineering team building a multi-tenant SaaS platform for automated store creation — owning technical decisions, architecture, and release coordination.
• Designed the full monorepo (TypeScript + Go + Svelte), defined gRPC inter-service contracts, and authored the majority of the backend.
• Built the infrastructure end-to-end: CI/CD via GitHub Actions, observability with Grafana + Loki + Promtail, automated subdomain provisioning, a Redis-backed order state machine, and payment automation.
• Shipping a working product with automated website generation, a built-in CRM, and AI-powered Telegram bot integration.

Critiqal

Solo Engineer·2025 — present

• Building an open-source social network for people focused on self-improvement — full solo ownership from architecture to production. Java + Quarkus on the backend, Svelte on the frontend, S3 for media.
• Automated deployments via GitHub Actions over SSH; Cloudflare and Nginx handle reverse proxy and baseline DDoS protection. Live at dev.critiqal.xyz, shipping to critiqal.xyz.
• Strava and GitHub integrations are in active development. Currently evaluating Solana / TON for an in-app economy.

WishlistBot

Co‑Developer·Maintainer·Sep 2024 — present

• Co-built and actively maintain a Telegram wishlist bot with a gift reservation system — 1,000+ active users with steady monthly growth.
• Integrated OpenAI to auto-parse product details — title, price, image — from any shared URL, reducing item-add to a single message.
• Led the backend migration from Java to Go, improving performance and reducing operational complexity.

With @zjor — applied production-grade code review and service design practices.

TeamTrack

Architect·Full‑Stack Engineer·2024

• Designed and built a collaborative task-management platform with real-time WebSocket sync, Markdown support, and multi-user workspaces.
• Served as architecture designer: data models, API contracts, deployment strategy. Authored the complete React frontend and significant parts of the Go backend.
• Deployed on a VPS with containerized services behind Nginx — full release-cycle ownership including staging and production.

Winly

Solo Engineer·2024

• Production Telegram bot for live streamers with cryptocurrency wallet integration — automated token distribution to viewers across Twitch and Kick.
• Designed real-time event pipelines connecting external platform APIs with in-bot state management.
• Built an in-bot marketplace for premium streamer perks — a closed-loop engagement economy for streaming communities.