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Denis Matakov

CTO at Buenos Padel — a network of padel clubs in Moscow, Tver and beyond. In IT since 2006 — 20 years, most of them spent turning engineering teams into something the business can rely on.

I work at the seam between architecture and organization: the system design that makes a product scale, and the team design that makes the system get built. Lately a lot of that involves AI-assisted development — not as a demo, but as part of how the work actually gets done.

What I do

Engineering leadership. Building teams, competency centers and technical roadmaps. Making the decision-making process explicit so that architecture survives people changing jobs.

Architecture. Distributed systems and microservices platforms, cloud-native infrastructure, API design (REST/GraphQL), PostgreSQL data models. TOGAF 10 for the enterprise-scale conversations.

Making it measurable. Technical metrics, reliability targets, cost control. Kubernetes resource optimization and cloud spend reduction are recurring themes — the kind of work where a good week pays for the quarter.

Rapid prototyping. A working prototype in 1–7 days beats a deck every time. Python, Django, HTMX, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, plus whatever the problem actually needs.

Mentoring. Career and technical mentoring for engineers and tech leads — see mtkv.ru for how that works and what people say about it.

Selected results

  • Designed and led development of a microservices platform from architecture to production
  • Established six competency centers and an architectural manifesto that made technical decisions repeatable rather than heroic
  • Introduced a technical metrics system that measurably improved product reliability
  • Optimized Kubernetes cluster resources with significant infrastructure savings
  • Orchestrated a transition to a cloud SaaS architecture

Tech

Python · Django · FastAPI · JavaScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes · GitHub Actions · REST / GraphQL · Claude Code

Writing

I blog about engineering leadership, AI-assisted development and the unglamorous parts of being a CTO:

More at matakov.com — and short, practical notes for tech leads in my Telegram channel @cto_leader.

Contact

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    Python Questions for Senior and Lead roles

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    A Windows wallpaper of the weeks you have lived — and the ones still ahead. Twenty designs, 4K, redraws itself weekly, zero background processes.

    HTML

  3. whistle-melody whistle-melody Public

    🎵 Whistle a melody into the mic — get notes on a piano roll and a playable MIDI file. Native macOS app: SwiftUI, YIN pitch detection, zero dependencies.

    Swift

  4. llm llm Public

    LLM PoC

    Python 1

  5. FastAudioSwitch FastAudioSwitch Public

    Tiny Windows tray utility for switching the default audio output. Pick only the outputs you use, name them yourself, switch with one click.

    C#