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Vitaly Aminev

Vitaly Aminev · Vancouver, BC

Staff Engineer|

who ships agentic AI & high-throughput systems

12 years shipping production systems. 5 utility patents. Led teams of 8+. From autonomous trading bots to 1M+ concurrent real-time platforms.

Experience

Alpha.so

Alpha.so

AI Agents

AI Product Engineer · Team of 3

2025 — Present

AfterHour Inc · Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Pear VC · $4.5M seed

  • Multi-LLM agentic platform — Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, xAI via Vercel AI SDK v6 with Mastra orchestration
  • RAG with hybrid search (Meilisearch + Typesense), vector search (Milvus), graph relationships (FalkorDB)
  • Persistent AI memory — each bot evolves trading strategies across sessions via mem0
  • Temporal workflows for thousands of concurrent bots with sandboxed virtual filesystem per instance
  • Internet-scale chat on Matrix protocol — Java 21 / Spring Boot on Rama distributed data platform
  • 30+ services on Render + EKS. Go proxy for Polygon.io WebSocket feeds. Fastly Compute@Edge WASM fanout
TemporalVercel AI SDKMastraNestJSPrismaDrizzleMilvusFalkorDBRamaGoPulumi
200K+
users
$400M+
portfolio assets
6.9M+
trade signals
Case Study
StreamLayer

StreamLayer

Real-Time

CTO · Led 8+ Engineers

Aug 2018 — 2025 · Fractional CTO from 2025

  • gRPC gateway routing to 20+ Microfleet microservices via AMQP — proto-first design (234 proto versions, 7 codegen targets)
  • Masters (Augusta National): 1M+ peak concurrent viewers, multi-year integration
  • ClickHouse event engine — cluster-wide aggregate peak of billions events/second, powering VAST ad insertion
  • 6 sports data adapters: Sportradar, Betgenius, SimpleBet, BetMGM, SportsData.io, NFL
  • 12 platform SDKs — iOS (Swift/VIPER), Android (Kotlin/ExoPlayer), Web (Nx/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
100+
repos
Case Study
Makeomatic

Makeomatic

Founded

Founder & CTO · Grew 2 → 15 Engineers

Sep 2012 — Present

Built the framework that powers StreamLayer. 149+ open source repos.

  • 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
25
framework plugins
149+
open source repos
10+
systems shipped
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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.
AI SystemsSystem DesignInfraLanguagesScaleLeadership

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.

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