Open to project, advisory & consulting work
Have a system worth getting right?
Tell me what you're building, or what's breaking. I reply by email, usually within a day.
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I'm Dmitrii Lutskov, an architect for complex, data-heavy systems: high-load e-commerce, geospatial platforms, network infrastructure, database integrations. I plan, architect, and direct delivery, and I'm drawn to any problem hard enough to be worth taking apart. Project, advisory, and consulting work.
I work as supervisor, architect, and lead, directing AI agents on execution. I use the best tool for each task. If designing or delegating gets a better result faster, I do that. When the agents fall short, I go deep myself.
That last part is not theory. On a hard Kubernetes ingress problem the models kept producing nonsense, so I took it apart by hand, used targeted queries only where they actually helped, and mapped, understood, and fixed it in three days. The fundamentals are still there. The AI is a lever, not a crutch.
The real bottleneck in good software was never typing. It is judgment: which design survives scale, which shortcut becomes next year's outage. That is what three decades of building gives you, and it is what a model does not have on its own.
These are where I'm deepest. They are examples, not a fence; I take on hard systems of many kinds.
Twenty years owning the technical side of an online store with 60,000+ SKUs. Codebase, automated pricing and supply chain, infrastructure, and the marketing analytics on top.
GIS portals, routing and monitoring systems on large spatial datasets. Spatial queries, tiling, and the databases underneath them.
Monitoring systems, client-server platforms, and DNS infrastructure, including a full-featured DNS service with DDoS and bot protection.
Full-stack systems and APIs since the early web. Backends, payment and platform integrations, and the database work underneath.
A timeboxed review, about three days deep in the repository and logs. You get a written report: the critical risks and a step-by-step stabilization roadmap. This includes rescuing AI-generated codebases that ran in a demo and broke under real load.
Ongoing technical direction for a founder or team. Architectural decisions, infrastructure, and development process, without a full-time hire.
A system designed and delivered end to end, with AI-directed execution, when you need the thing built and not only advised.
Project, advisory and consulting only, not staff roles. I work primarily async: written specs, code, and recorded walkthroughs, with calls as needed.
Online electronics store, 60,000+ SKUs. I grew it from a small site and have run the technical side for two decades, with only short, infrequent downtime. Full technical ownership: Rails, automated pricing across a dozen-plus supplier feeds, DevOps, and performance-marketing analytics.
A protected, full-featured DNS service with DDoS and bot protection. Architecture, development and DevOps end to end.
Online store for a comics publisher selling both print and digital editions. Full-stack build and infrastructure.
Map portals and monitoring systems on large geospatial datasets. Routing, tiling and spatial queries at scale.
"I've known Dmitrii for almost twenty years, and from day one he impressed us. Technically very strong and autonomous. He gets big results with little support, where most partners need far more. Our projects were complex, enterprise-level work spanning consulting, software integration and data processing. I warmly recommend him."
Business development manager · European geospatial software vendor · 20-year working relationship
"Dmitrii goes into every question with detailed attention. I would come away with one or more solution paths, each step explained. Very high competence, and high professional ethics. Always open to communication."
Enterprise GIS client · FME data-integration project
Tell me what you're building, or what's breaking. I reply by email, usually within a day.