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.
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.
- 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
Python · Django · FastAPI · JavaScript · PostgreSQL · Redis · Docker · Kubernetes
· GitHub Actions · REST / GraphQL · Claude Code
I blog about engineering leadership, AI-assisted development and the unglamorous parts of being a CTO:
- Claude Code и 1С.Предприятие
- Секреты продуктивной работы с Claude Code
- Как проводить демо: структура, слайды и акценты
- Первый опыт с Claude Code: зачем мне консольный ИИ-ассистент разработчика
More at matakov.com — and short, practical notes for tech leads in my Telegram channel @cto_leader.
- Telegram: @matakov — channel: @cto_leader
- Blog: matakov.com
- Consulting & mentoring: mtkv.ru
- LinkedIn: in/matakov
- Email: matakov@gmail.com