@barkouski

Technical generalist, staff-level full-stack product engineer, founder of Gia, Belarus-born immigrant with a competitive programming background, making full-stack backend-heavy products from scratch, with an obsessive user focus

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Involvements

  1. 2026
    • Working on Gia - quality-focused, domain-agnostic, deep semantic search harness
  2. 2025
    • Led the technical architecture, backend, infrastructure, frontend and design at The Network, deep human and company search engine
  3. 2024
    • Founded Plump, a referral-based job search engine acquired by The Network
    • Helped bootstrap Superads, an AI-powered ads analytics SaaS, to 500+ paying B2B subscribers in its first ten months
  4. 2021
    • Led Superside teams in building an enterprise-trusted platform
    • Built a better e-commerce experience for 500k subscribers at Scentbird
  5. 2020
    • Implemented a bunch of internal tools for HubSpot
    • Helped design high-load MVideo search to handle 35k RPS
  6. 2019
    • Won a third-degree diploma at Belarus's national olympiad in informatics