Vitaly Aminev · Vancouver, BC
Staff Engineer|
who ships agentic AI &
high-throughput systems
12 years shipping production systems. 5 utility patents. Led teams of 20+. From autonomous trading bots to 1M+ concurrent real-time platforms.
Experience
Alpha.so
AI AgentsAI Product Engineer
2025 — Present
AfterHour Inc · Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Pear VC · $4.5M seed
- Vercel AI SDK Tool Loop Agent inside Temporal workflows — sandboxed virtual filesystem per bot with S3 backing, virtual CLIs, composable skills system
- RAG with hybrid search (Meilisearch + Typesense), vector search (Milvus), graph relationships (FalkorDB)
- LLM-as-judge evals on PostHog traces, prompt rollouts via feature flags. Test harness enabling coding agents to ship autonomously
- Temporal harness for everything — agent execution, trade ops, market open checks, rebalancing. Auto-scaling workers on EKS
- Internet-scale chat on Matrix protocol — Java 21 / Spring Boot on Rama distributed data platform
- Go WebSocket proxy for Polygon.io market data. Fastly Compute@Edge WASM fanout
TemporalVercel AI SDKMastraNestJSPrismaDrizzleMilvusFalkorDBRamaGoPulumi
200K+
users
$400M+
portfolio assets
6.9M+
trade signals
StreamLayer
Real-TimeCTO · Led 20+ Engineers
Aug 2018 — 2025 · Fractional CTO from 2025
- gRPC gateway routing to 20+ Microfleet microservices via AMQP — proto-first design with Buf codegen to 7 targets
- Masters (Augusta National): 1M+ peak concurrent viewers, multi-year integration
- ClickHouse analytics engine — cluster-wide aggregate peak of billions events/second for viewer engagement and ad performance
- 6 sports data adapters: Sportradar, Betgenius, SimpleBet, BetMGM, SportsData.io, NFL
- Led the team that shipped 12 platform SDKs — defined architecture across iOS (Swift/VIPER), Android (Kotlin/ExoPlayer), Web (React/gRPC-Web), Roku, CTV
- AI platform with 9 specialized agents (Sense-Interpret-Act) on Temporal. Istio service mesh on GKE
gRPCProtobufMicrofleetClickHouseRedisRabbitMQKubernetesIstioTypeORMPrometheus
1M+
peak concurrent
<100ms
p99 latency
12
platform SDKs
Makeomatic
FoundedFounder & CTO · Grew 2 → 15 Engineers
Sep 2012 — Present
Built the framework that powers StreamLayer. Open-sourced everything we could.
- Built Microfleet — 25-package plugin framework: 4 transports (AMQP, HTTP, WebSocket, Kafka), 7 DB adapters, 6-phase request lifecycle
- Production services: ms-users (JWT/OAuth/2FA), ms-files (multi-cloud TUS uploads), ms-payments, ms-mailer, ms-chat (Cassandra + socket.io)
- Cappasity: 3D/AR e-commerce — +40% conversion (TSUM), patented 3D View format. Samsonite, Walmart, Target, Nordstrom
- Ark.com (YC W12, TechCrunch Disrupt finalist): scaled Elasticsearch to 1B+ docs, <500ms from 10s+
- IntelliSense.io: real-time IoT at 100K+ data points/sec — now brains.app, deployed in mining across 6 countries
- RadioFX (co-founded): college radio platform with "smart ad" tech syncing visual content to audio
MicrofleetRabbitMQRedisKafkaElasticsearchCassandraKubernetesTerraformConsulHapi.js
15
peak team size
12+
years shipping
5
utility patents
What People Say
"Give him a hard problem and he comes back with a solution that's better than what you had in your head. Every time. His range is insane — backend AI infrastructure and the live trading system that powers all our bots. Backend, AI, and infra that actually scales. He ships whatever needs shipping. And he's fast."
KX
Kevin Xu
Founder & CEO, Alpha.so
"Cares deeply about performance and optimization — production systems with tight performance guarantees. Takes initiative when he thinks something is off. He'll rebuild the e2e testing workflow on a weekend, or optimize docker caching layers for CI so you can ship faster. Has truly embraced AI and agentic engineering — building great software and infrastructure in short order."
JC
JD Conley
Engineering Lead, Alpha.so
Skills
Character Sheet
Staff Engineer · Level 12
Class
Distributed Systems Architect
18
+4
STR
Backend
19
+4
DEX
Real-Time
17
+3
CON
Infra
16
+3
INT
AI / ML
18
+4
WIS
Architecture
15
+2
CHA
Leadership
STR Microfleet creator. 12yr Node.js.
DEX 1M+ concurrent. Sub-100ms p99.
CON K8s, Terraform, 12 platform SDKs.
INT RAG, agents, vector search, Temporal.
WIS Distributed, event-driven, micro.
CHA Teams 3→15. Founded Makeomatic.
Proficiencies
TypeScript / Node.js 12yr
Python 4yr
Go 3yr
Swift / Kotlin 6yr
Redis 10yr
ClickHouse 5yr
PostgreSQL 10yr
Kubernetes 7yr
Feats
- ◆ Framework Creator — Microfleet
- ◆ Patent Contributor (Cappasity 3D View)
- ◆ NodeConf EU Speaker
- ◆ redux-connect — widely adopted React SSR lib
- ◆ 138+ Public Repos
AI Systems
- Vercel AI SDK
- Anthropic
- Mastra
- LangChain
- OpenAI
- RAG
System Design
- ClickHouse
- Redis
- PostgreSQL
- Milvus
- Elasticsearch
- FalkorDB
Infra
- Kubernetes
- Terraform
- Docker
- AWS
- Consul
- Prometheus
Languages
- Node.js
- TypeScript
- Go
- Python
- Swift
- Kotlin
Scale
- RabbitMQ
- Kafka
- gRPC
- WebSockets
- Temporal
- BullMQ
Leadership
- Team Building
- Arch Reviews
- Hiring
- Mentoring
- Cross-functional
- Roadmapping
Let's talk.
Looking for Staff/Principal AI engineering or platform infrastructure roles. Also open to fractional CTO engagements.