Max Degterev

- Played a core role in sketching the architecture and building the product, a European Webflow competitor.

- Architected a flow-based CMS configuration system with React Flow, custom graph state, and node/edge interactions.

- Built a flexible visual Freeform Editor with recursive drag-and-drop, rich text editing, and data bindings.

- Developed extensible inspector and reference systems for page links, components, and assets.

- Built advanced CMS capabilities including interactive maps, content-type editing, and CRM-connected forms.

- Led the full buildout of a large data ingestion pipeline with RAG, LLM data extraction, and agentic workflows for company matching, and managed the dev team.

- Architected a production RAG platform for large-scale tender and document data, from ingestion to retrieval.

- Built a custom hybrid search engine combining vector search, BM25, and domain-specific filtering.

- Engineered high-throughput document processing pipelines with asynchronous workers, queues, and deduplication.

- Built AI-powered research and conversational systems, including LLM agents, tool calling, and contextual tender chat.

- Architected and scaled the backend across PostgreSQL, S3, microservices, and CI/CD, including a migration away from PayloadCMS.

- Processed 5B tokens a month with fully searchable hybrid search on self-hosted models.

- Built organization-based auth, access control, and management.

- Improved application architecture, maintainability, and developer tooling.

- Stabilized AI tooling and strengthened backend infrastructure.

- Developed "AI Agents" that were designed to hand over control for certain parts of the conversation with full context customization.

- Developed tools such as semantic search via conversation history, knowledge graphs, memories, and conversation control.

- Created fully hands off "Voice assistant" mode.

- Created a lightweight, zero-dependency widget for live website content translation with full support for single-page applications.

- Added multi language support, simple language support and context/layout aware translations.

- Developed queueing architecture to support running large amounts of background tasks in parallel.

- Integrated multiple email sending providers.

- Implemented an LLM based data enrichment process.

- Designed a scalable, cost-effective cloud architecture.

- Managed seamless deployment across testing and production environments.

- Integrated an LLM-based AI autocomplete feature for user input in any language.

- Built an AI-native CMS and website engine from the first line of code to infrastructure deployment.

- Helped develop meta scrapers and integrate Stripe checkout.

- Performed performance, stability and penetration tests.

- Set up cloud architecture ensuring quick development pace and good maintainability.

- Created and iterated on product roadmaps.

- Worked on implementing an API, React Native mobile app, web dashboard and an admin panel.

- Helped form an in-house engineering team and set up a sustainable remote working culture.

- Architected and rebuilt the frontend platform, including authentication, routing, networking, i18n, error handling, and CI/CD.

- Built a complex, API-driven ESOP product with dynamic forms, multi-step workflows, document handling, charts, and company/cap table management.

- Established scalable frontend architecture through reusable components, strict TypeScript, testing, observability, and developer tooling.

- Led hiring and built core product features.

- Built a high-performance 100,000×100,000 data grid with virtualization, caching, range selection, filtering, sorting, and real-time API integration.

- Engineered complex spreadsheet-like interactions including inline editing, keyboard navigation, multi-range selection, drag-and-drop reordering, resizing, transposition, and validation.

- Architected the frontend from the ground up, including state management, networking, i18n, authentication, deployment pipelines, and scalable data-loading architecture.