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Artem Avetisyan

Software Engineer & Technology Consultant

Thonon-les-Bains, France

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About

Over 15 years building software, for startups, fintech and the BBC. Today I build with AI agents, so less of my time goes on typing code and more goes on what matters: understanding the problem, designing a solution that holds up, and making sure it is secure, fast and easy to change. I can help your business put LLMs to use, replace the systems that slow it down, and build software that keeps paying off after launch.

How I can help

Put LLMs to work

Find where LLMs genuinely help your business, then build them in so they are dependable and safe.

Ship fast

Agent-assisted delivery shortens the path from idea to working software, without cutting corners on quality.

Keep it changeable

Simple, well-tested code that the next person, or the next agent, can safely change.

Make it secure

Review and harden applications, infrastructure and AI integrations: access control, data leaks, prompt injection.

Untangle legacy

Upgrade or replace the systems that hold your business back.

Work

Indigo Lighthouse

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Ruby-on-Rails developer

https://www.indigolighthouse.com/

Building an e-commerce platform for prescription-based products.

Featurist

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Principal developer

https://archive.featurist.co.uk/

At this London-based consultancy, I worked on various client projects, developing high quality server and client side code.

Highlights

  • Worked on greenfield projects and legacy system replacements, utilising a diverse tech stack from Node.js to Rails.
  • Gained insights into various industries through diverse projects, which improved my problem-solving approach.
  • Worked both solo and as a part of client team, sharing my expertise, and coaching when necessary.
  • Took on devops tasks when necessary.
  • Contributed to open source, wrote blog posts, and spoke at tech events.

Funding Circle (UK)

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Helped various teams with product and infrastructure development.

Highlights

  • Upgraded the main FC Rails app to modern version of ruby (which was previously deemed too hard).
  • Developed a way to run the entire FC stack locally, thus boosting productivity across the entire tech department.
  • Worked on ETL side of FC app integration with Salesforce.

The People’s Operator

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A greenfield project to build a mobile operator store site for their launch in the US.

Appear Here

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Software Developer

https://www.appearhere.co.uk/

Worked as a part of small agile team on various aspects of the site: searching for places, booking places, landlord onboarding, admin backend and more.

Highlights

  • Worked in a very fast paced startup environment, often working on multiple things at a time.

Shopa

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Software Developer

https://shopa.com/

Building tech for a disruptive startup.

Highlights

  • Worked both solo and as a part of a team.
  • Quickly pivoting as the business was actively looking for a winning strategy.

BBC Public Service

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Developer-in-test

https://www.bbc.com/

Helped BBC Future Media teams to integrate TDD/BDD into their projects.

Highlights

  • Worked closely with product owners to define software specs
  • Developed a testing tool - RestAssured - that is still in use in the BBC.

And more...

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Mainly Perl web development and a few small Rails contracts.

Pre-agentic era

2007–2025. Every line of code written by hand.

Projects

Thonon-les-Pains

https://thonon-les-pains.fr/

Artisanal bakery (with product, order and customer management backend)

Super slim and minimalistic translator browser extension. 100K+ Chrome and Firefox users.

Mobile app (iOS/Android) to help guitar player read tabs from the phone while playing. Developed in Flutter.

A fun github log viewer, styled as a Star Wars crawl. Brought me to the top of Hackernews.

The smallest Rails app

https://thesmallestrailsapp.dev/

The smallest Rails app in the World.

Tmux plugin to open file links in Vim

Skills

Backend

  • Ruby, Ruby-on-Rails
  • Node.js, Typescript
  • Go
  • Python
  • Perl
  • Postgres, Mysql, Sqlite

Frontend

  • HTML5, CSS3
  • React, Stimulus, Next.js, NextUI
  • Tailwind CSS, Styled Components, Bulma
  • webpack, esbuild

Automated testing

  • BDD, Cucumber
  • TDD, Rspec, Minitest, Mocha
  • Capybara, Selenium

DevOps

  • AWS, Cloudformation, Lambda, CDK
  • Kubernetes
  • Heroku
  • Docker
  • CI/CD

Mobile

  • Dart
  • Flutter
  • NativeScript
  • RubyMotion

Soft Skills

  • Leadership/mentorship
  • Project management
  • Written & verbal communication
  • Team collaboration
  • Detail oriented

Languages

English: Fluent

French: Intermediate

Russian: Native