# Artem Meshkov — Systems & Platform Engineer > Systems & platform engineer based in Israel with 5+ years designing and building production platforms end-to-end: system architecture, cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes), security (ISO 27001), backends, frontends, and AI/LLM systems. Not currently looking for new roles. --- ## About Me Systems & platform engineer with 5+ years designing and shipping production platforms end-to-end — system architecture, cloud infrastructure (GCP, AWS, Kubernetes), security (ISO 27001), and the full application stack on top: React frontends, Django/FastAPI backends, and AI/LLM systems like RAG pipelines and self-hosted GPU inference. I own system architecture end-to-end, mentor developers, and lead production troubleshooting. I enjoy building systems that are clean, maintainable, and performant — trained as a Practical Engineer in Electronics (ORT College). ### How I Work - People can vibe code anything, but they forget it's easy for a POC or MVP — not for large-scale projects with many users and features. Once it gets big, things break fast. - If a solution looks really complicated, it might be overkill or over-engineering. But sometimes complex problems require complex solutions — not a state machine for a button. - AI vibe coded projects are good. Just until real users touch it, or hackers breach the database with admin/admin creds — then they call me. --- ## Experience ### Full-Stack Developer — Novella (Late 2026–Present) - Driving AI development, automation, and testing - Implementing AI workflows & integrations to improve development and reliability ### Senior Systems & Platform Engineer — Weaversoft.io (2022–September 2026) - Built a real-time medical platform with React, Django, and MySQL supporting 50–500 concurrent clinical sessions - Built a document-processing ML system combining OCR, fine-tuned LLMs, and algorithmic extraction - Developed and deployed an early RAG-based tool-calling system for chat agents (pre-LangChain/Flowise) on GPT-3: similarity search over an indexed CSV of tool names, descriptions, and Python code, with the matched row's code extracted and executed via a PostgreSQL vector store - Developed a healthcare conversational RAG agent with dynamic retrieval and domain knowledge integration - Architected large-scale multi-tenant SaaS platform in Django orchestrating Docker microservices on k8s - Managed a team of 6 developers and 2 DevOps engineers across the full SDLC - Developed a self-hosted k3s platform for managing and deploying custom applications with Helm, providing a UI for system resource management and app deployment with SSO, LDAP, and an Identity provider. Managed SDLC environments for agents on the platform with Gitea, code-server, and opencode, powered by self-hosted models on vllm/llama.cpp containers. - Developed secure company agents using MCPs integrating with various aspects of the company, featuring user/role management under admin user, enabling documentation (company data lake), task management, and internal/client meeting summarizations with context recalling. - Obtained ISO 27001 certification for Weaversoft.io --- ## Projects ### GainGuard.ai — AI Sports-Safety Wearables Backend Backend and cloud infrastructure for an AI sports-safety wearables platform. Designed the FastAPI microservices backend with a Django API gateway, built GCP cloud infrastructure and load balancing, integrated the React frontend, and performed ISO 27001-aligned security hardening. - **Tech:** FastAPI, Django, PostgreSQL, React, GCP - **Live:** https://gainguard.ai ### SPD Online — Real-Time Multiplayer Roguelike A real-time multiplayer roguelike dungeon crawler based on Shattered Pixel Dungeon by Evan Debenham. Features 50 dungeon floors with bosses every 5 floors, and full autonomous real-time gameplay. - **Tech:** React, Vite, FastAPI, Python, TypeScript, Docker, GCP - **Source:** https://github.com/Artemnikov/shattered_pixel_dungeon_online - **Status:** Work in progress, open source ### Document RAG — Local Document Retrieval-Augmented Generation Self-hosted RAG over your own documents, audio, video, and web pages. Hybrid dense + sparse search (BGE-M3) with cross-encoder reranking, multilingual EN/RU/HE, and streamed answers with clickable citations that open the source chunk. - **Tech:** Python, FastAPI, Next.js, Qdrant, Celery, Docker - **Source:** https://github.com/Artemnikov/simple_rag_engine - **Status:** Open source ### Poppins — Child-Development Digital Therapy Platform A telehealth platform delivering remote digital therapy and assessments for child development. Built end-to-end at Weaversoft.io for Femi. - **Tech:** React, Django, PostgreSQL, AWS - **Client:** Weaversoft.io --- ## Awards - **1st Place, Electronics — ORT Colleges Innovation & Entrepreneurship 2019** (May 2019, ₪2,500 prize): gesture-controlled drone steered by a custom sensor glove. Practical Electronics Engineering, ORT. ## Skills ### Core Stack - **Languages:** JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, HTML/CSS - **Frameworks:** React, Next.js, Django, FastAPI, Express.js, Nest.js, Node.js - **AI/ML:** LangChain, RAG, OpenAI API, LangGraph - **DevOps:** Docker, Kubernetes, Git, Datadog, Helm, Terraform, OpenTofu - **Databases:** PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, SQLite - **Cloud:** Google Cloud Platform, AWS - **OS:** Linux (Debian-based), macOS - **AI Dev Tools:** Claude Code, OpenCode - **Git Platforms:** GitHub ### Also Worked With - **AI/ML:** PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, Langfuse, OCR - **AI Infra:** LiteLLM, Ollama, LM Studio, Open WebUI, vLLM, llama.cpp, Google AI Studio / Vertex AI, AWS Bedrock, Azure AI Studio - **Automation:** n8n, Flowise - **AI Testing:** Promptfoo - **Networking:** nginx, MetalLB, Ingress - **Security:** Snyk, Docker Scout, Claude Code (White-Box Audits), CI/CD Security Scanning - **Git Platforms:** Bitbucket, Gitea - **Databases:** MongoDB - **DevOps:** Webpack - **Product Management:** Trello, Monday.com, Jira --- ## Contact - **GitHub:** https://github.com/Artemnikov - **LinkedIn:** https://www.linkedin.com/in/artem-meshkov-3186401a5 - **Email:** artem.meshkov@gmail.com - **Website:** https://artemnikov.net - **CV:** https://artemnikov.net/artem_meshkov_cv.pdf - **Location:** Israel