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Aleksei Olkhovoi

@alekseiolkhovoi

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I build practical full-stack products, from wine software to B2B SaaS.

Spain

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for hands-on full-stack and architecture work where I can solve expensive or slow problems with simpler, practical products. I'm open to remote or hybrid, full-time or part-time roles.

I've built practical software across wine, edtech, and B2B SaaS, often finding simpler alternatives when standard solutions are too expensive or slow.

At AO Digital, I build software for wineries and agri-food producers as the only engineer. I created Vessels, an offline cellar-management system with QR-coded tanks, Raspberry Pi sensor integrations, and event-log traceability; adapting it for another winery now costs hundreds of dollars.

I'm also co-developing ParcellasCRM, a vineyard-management SaaS in a live pilot across 39 parcels, combining weather, satellite, soil, and Spanish land-registry data for disease and frost risk models. At Wineater, I designed a wine-recommendation algorithm that is five times faster and hundreds of times cheaper than typical LLM-based approaches.

Previously, I led five engineering teams at KnowledgeCity and served as first engineer, co-founder, and CTO at Vectorly. I built products from scratch, hired and developed teams, managed roadmaps and budgets, and continued writing code in TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, and modern web stacks.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Founder, Principal Engineer

Current

AO Digital

Dec 2025 - Present (9 months)

Founded an independent engineering practice in Spain, building software for wineries and agri-food producers, including a cellar management system and a vineyard management SaaS.

React TypeScript Spring Boot Python fastAPI PostgreSQL PostGIS Raspberry Pi Computer Vision Offline First

Current

Co-founder, Product and Technology

Current

Wineater (BACCHUSTECH OÜ)

Apr 2023 - Present (3 years 5 months)

Co-founded a wine recommendation platform for online shops and restaurants, designing a fast and cost-effective recommendation algorithm and all integration types.

Recommendation Systems Algorithm Design Product Management API Design JavaScript Wine Knowledge

Engineering Manager

KnowledgeCity

Jun 2023 - Nov 2025 (2 years 5 months)

Led five engineering teams, including DevOps and the core team integrating AI into video content production, while focusing on cloud cost reduction and roadmap coordination.

Engineering Management Team Leadership DevOps Cloud Cost Optimization AI Integration Roadmapping Budget Management Hiring

First Engineer → Co-founder, CTO

Vectorly (later Ace)

Jan 2019 - May 2023 (4 years 4 months)

Joined as the first developer and built the entire B2B SaaS platform from scratch, later becoming CTO and leading the team through a pivot to an AI assistant for engineering leaders.

Angular NodeJS Python SaaS Product Development Team Building Customer Development Product Launch AI

Front-End Developer → Head of Front-End → CTO

Picasel

Oct 2014 - Jan 2021 (6 years 3 months)

Worked on over ten projects for international brands, built gamification systems, and progressed from front-end developer to CTO, leading a team of seven and making technology decisions.