Currently Focused On
Building reliable products, improving system architecture, refining the developer experience, and actively exploring Rust, Kotlin, and Swift.
HELLO, I’M IVAN
Ivan
Ivan
Talakhovskyy
Software Engineer · System Architect · Builder
Designing, building, and scaling web, cloud, and mobile products since 2011 — from early PHP monoliths on bare metal to modern, distributed systems on Kubernetes.
Full-Stack DevelopmentBackend, frontend, mobile
Cloud & DevOpsAWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD
Architecture & ScalingFrom monoliths to distributed
Product DevelopmentWeb apps and mobile games
My Journey
Technology & Tools
Across my journey, including tools I’m exploring.
PHPCakePHPJavaScriptjQueryHTMLCSSSendGridMySQLSphinxRedisMemcachedWindowsVirtualBoxNginxPHP-FPMSoftLayerLinuxTerminalSVNGitJenkinsDeployBotBeanstalkNew RelicPayPalBraintreeSSHReactNode.jsExpress.jsElixirAWSTravis CIBlueprintRubyRuby on RailsPostgreSQLLambdaStep FunctionsSQSAPI GatewayBrontoKubernetesCodefreshArgo CDDatadogSumo LogicBugsnagRollbarPagerDutyGrafanaCI/CDDockerCloudflareOracleTypeScriptSwiftKotlinRustPodmanAI-assisted developmentTerraformGraphQLAWS Serverless
Show overview
2011 · The beginning
Web foundations
Built and maintained a web application as a PHP monolith.
- Application & email
- PHPCakePHPJavaScriptjQueryHTMLCSSSendGrid
- Data, search & caching
- MySQLSphinxRedisMemcached
- Environment
- WindowsVirtualBoxNginxPHP-FPMSoftLayer bare metal
Evolving the workflow
Development & delivery
Improved the development workflow and release process.
- Workflow
- Windows → LinuxTerminalSVN → Git
- Delivery & monitoring
- JenkinsDeployBot / BeanstalkNew Relic
- Integration work
- PayPal → BraintreeFile distribution over SSH
Breaking up the monolith
Application architecture
Separated frontend and backend while moving toward AWS.
- Frontend
- ReactNode.js / Express.js
- Migration
- PHP → Node.js / Express.jsPHP → Elixir
- Cloud & mobile
- AWSPHP mobile APITravis CIBlueprint
Expanding the stack
Services & integrations
Developed additional services and serverless workflows.
- Services
- Ruby on RailsPostgreSQL
- Serverless
- LambdaStep FunctionsSQSAPI Gateway
- Email platform
- SendGrid → Bronto, then back to SendGrid
Operating at scale
Platform & reliability
Worked on infrastructure, deployment pipelines, and production visibility.
- Platform
- Kubernetes
- Delivery
- CodefreshArgo CD
- Observability
- New Relic → DatadogSumo LogicBugsnagRollbarPagerDutyGrafana
Now & what’s next
DevOps & products
Work in DevOps while developing products of my own.
- DevOps
- KubernetesCI/CDDockerCloudflareOracle
- Product development
- TypeScriptSnickclickSectorbreak
- Exploring
- SwiftKotlinRustPodmanAI-assisted development
Featured Projects
Ideas becoming real.
Snickclick
A country-based browser game with live activity, online duels, and leaderboards.
snickclick.com
Sectorbreak
A mobile game for iOS and Android. A new frontier in my product-building journey.
Happy English Time
English lessons for children in Ternopil and online, plus English–Ukrainian translations.
happyenglishtime.comLet’s Build Something Great
Interesting projects. Thoughtful engineering. New possibilities.