Alexander Makeev
Verified Expert in Engineering
Python Developer
Almaty, Almaty Province, Kazakhstan
Toptal member since January 24, 2015
Alexander is an AI and intelligent systems developer specializing in LLM integration, real-time automation, and scalable MVPs. He designs AI-enhanced agents, data pipelines, and orchestration systems that turn complex business problems into measurable results. By leveraging cutting-edge tools and efficient workflows, he delivers in weeks what traditionally took months, focusing on long-term impact, reliability, and clear business value.
Portfolio
Experience
- MVP Design - 17 years
- Full-stack Development - 15 years
- Business-driven Design - 15 years
- Architecture - 10 years
- Web Dashboards - 10 years
- Conversational Interfaces - 5 years
- LLM Orchestration & Pipelines - 3 years
- AI-assisted Software Engineering - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Debian, MacOS, Claude, Large Language Models (LLMs), Kubernetes, Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Observability Tools, Docker, VPS/VDS
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a nationwide legal data pipeline transforming US court opinions into structured, LLM-ready knowledge for scalable legal intelligence.
Work Experience
Architect/Full-stack Developer
COVER LAUNCH, LLC
- Conducted an end-to-end technical due diligence and production-readiness assessment of a SaaS platform, evaluating system stability, operational maturity, and readiness for commercial launch.
- Performed a comprehensive security and code review covering personal-data handling, application security controls, and development practices, and validated the overall robustness of the platform’s security posture.
- Analyzed system architecture and development workflows and delivered actionable recommendations that improved scalability, maintainability, and long-term reliability of the product.
- Reviewed QA processes and testing strategy and proposed structured quality-assurance improvements, including increased test coverage and formalized testing procedures to reduce operational and financial risk.
- Prepared detailed technical reports and onboarding and documentation guidelines, enabling leadership to clearly understand product status and supporting faster onboarding of new engineers and more efficient team communication.
Legal Data Web Scraping Specialist
FirmPilot AI Inc
- Designed and implemented a nationwide automated system for collecting U.S. court opinions, covering all states and multiple court levels, including historical backfills spanning several years of judicial data.
- Built a modular, scalable parser architecture that supported both full historical ingestion and incremental updates, enabling automated cron-based refreshes to keep the legal corpus continuously up to date.
- Developed state-specific high-volume parsers for major U.S. jurisdictions, directly extracting authoritative PDF rulings from regional court websites and handling heterogeneous document structures at scale.
- Created an end-to-end legal document processing pipeline, including PDF extraction, metadata enrichment, court attribution, and conversion into Markdown format optimized for downstream indexing and LLM-based retrieval.
- Implemented an automated court classification and filtering system, accurately identifying courts with relevant jurisdictional authority per region and ensuring only legally binding opinions were ingested and deduplicated.
- Established robust uniqueness and integrity checks across the dataset, using court-level indices and metadata validation to prevent duplication and guarantee completeness of the legal knowledge base.
- Built an automated reporting system over an S3-backed document store, generating structured coverage and quality reports to monitor dataset health, regional gaps, and progress toward defined benchmarks.
CTO
MelodyReady
- Led development of an AI-driven music creation platform combining custom LLM prompting, LoRa fine-tuning, and intuitive automation workflows — delivering creative outputs faster and more reliably than human-only processes.
- Created a web service for online AI music production. Anyone with a song idea can craft their own song using an AI-based wizard.
- Fine-tuned the lyrics writer using the LoRa approach. The quality and lyrics meter became much better than on the original LLM (GPT-4o).
- Wrote a Telegram bot for real-time communication with website visitors, helping them generate music.
CTO
OneLiner, LLC
- Architected and built a real-time AI assistant for virtual conferences that integrates speech recognition, contextual prompts, summaries, and automated reporting.
- Designed an AI multi-agent data extraction and orchestration pipeline that structured complex event data with enriched profiles for strategic insights.
- Implemented conversational automation systems and voice-synthesis narratives tailored for high-volume client consumption.
- Built an AI-powered Telegram bot that simulates first-time interactions with a girl, offering scenarios like starting a conversation, learning interests, exchanging contacts, and arranging a follow-up meeting.
- Developed a website featuring AI-generated summaries of classical literature, including author insights and analytical commentary, with audio narration powered by AI voice synthesis.
- Created a full-cycle PaaS platform. Researched a large set of existing open-source resources to build from. Includes a set of chosen open-source products integrated into an automated PaaS solution. Covered by tests, including IaC code tests.
Full-stack Web Developer
Toptal Clients
- Created a web-based CRM for health insurance agents across the USA, with automated email notifications, status tracking, and specialized tools like template insurance offering.
- Created a web search for health insurance plans based on US government insurance plans databases. The search included flexible filtering and adaptive cost estimation (age, smoking factor, annual income, and family members).
- Built an editor for online courses, enabling education resources to be created with embedded videos, illustration images, formatted texts, and formulas.
- Created an online portal for educational courses with flexible course access management (grouped access lists with tagged resource linkage). Also, the portal provides an environment for watching courses and tracking progress.
- Developed a fingerprint indexing and detection engine based on minutia points detection.
- Stood up an online fingerprint database with the capability to add new fingerprint images and search by fingerprint image.
- Developed a platform for online quizzes and polls. Multiple quizzes managed to run and the flexible architecture allowed custom quizzes logic with conditional branching and report evaluation.
- Designed and developed a blocks-based CMS for the online quizzes and polls' platform. Supported custom per-site blocks.
- Provided inter-site integration of the online quizzes and polls' platform, applied to multiple polls. Released Google Analytics metrics events and implemented routing to the container site.
Web Developer, Project Manager
Elksimo, Inc.
- Created a complete project infrastructure for development, testing, deployment, and bug/issue tracking.
- Developed a delegated programming web-sites delivery pipeline.
- Created a web service for online landing page construction and hosting.
- Created a web service for finding a location for a wedding.
- Built 17 landing pages with pixel-perfect HTML and CSS and a split-testing back end.
Senior Web Developer, R&D Department Manager
ASIA Consulting Group, Inc. (acquired by OneBox LLC and than by Ernst & Young consulting LLC)
- Created a web service software that provides e-polls for companies, by estimating staff involvement ratio, discovering organization strengths and weaknesses, and more.
- Created an application for automated poll form recognition using image processing.
- Gained experience in managing teams with diversely specialized members (IT specialists, designers, testers, business consultants, and clients).
- Gained experience in resource estimation, project planning, and time management.
Teacher of IT and Computer Science
Novosibirsk State University
- Created an educational methodology with lectures for fast key aspects' understanding and structured programming knowledge.
- Approved communication and presentation skills. Learned to transfer thoughts and ideas to students.
- Learned about mentoring and the 1-to-1 education process.
- Trained students to be the best at programming, knowledge proved by the results on final exams.
- Advised five students (around two students per year) in scientific projects as a result of the good training methodology acceptance.
Junior Scientist and Web Developer
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics
- Created a complex, graph-based configuration database and UI for managing hardware and software settings on physical facilities.
- Created utilities and plugins for hardware accessing and data processing.
- Gained experience in scientific writing and presenting. Posted articles to scientific journals and presented work results on conferences.
- Gained experience in role delegation and project management by being a scientific adviser of approximately two students per year.
Senior Web Developer
Netive Software, Ltd. (outstaffers for Claromentis CMS)
- Developed modules for Claromentis Intranet Web Application (outsourcing for a UK company).
- Supported and maintained older modules of Claromentis.
- Progressed from an ordinary team member to team lead.
- Developed clean, well-designed object-oriented programming on PHP.
- Worked in a team of seven with developers and testers.
Python Developer
CERN
- Created an Oracle connections pool with dynamic performance optimization for a Python web application.
- Learned advanced Python programming, including multi-processes parallelization.
- Created deep unit tests with high code coverage involving black-box and white-box testing methodologies.
- Created user and API documentation; the code was properly done with PEP-8.
- Worked in multilingual teams and participated in regular meetings and planning.
Software Developer
Institute of Automation and Electrometry
- Created a program for line segment recognition in a noisy, interlaced video stream.
- Created software for visually constructing and processing graphs using a set of implemented image-processing algorithms.
- Implemented 20+ mathematical image processing algorithms.
- Gained experience in analyzing algorithms documentation and using it as instructions for implementation.
- Gained experience in working with scientific software in a team setting.
System Administrator
SibTechnoSoft, Ltd.
- Supported web servers based on Perl, PHP, and Apache.
- Set up virtual private networks (VPNs) and virtual local area networks (VLANs).
- Configured 100+ PC hardware units, operating systems, drivers, and software settings.
- Optimized PC machine performance for better staff performance.
- Supported client PC machines through phone calls and personal visits.
Experience
Web Service for Finding a Wedding Location
Server-side: Nginx, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Python, Django, Python Imaging Library (PIL/PILLOW)
Client-side: JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Handlebars, HTML, CSS
Web Service for Construction and Hosting of Online Landing Pages
High Quality Landing Pages
Technologies used for development were:
Server-side: Nginx, Node.js, Grunt.js, Handlebars Precompiler, PHP
Client-side: JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Handlebars, HTML, CSS
Health Insurance Plans Web Search
Online Course Portal with Editor
The courses' portal includes flexible course access management (grouped access lists with tagged resources linkage) and running courses, with progress tracking included as well.
Fingerprint Online Database
Web CRM for Health Insurance Agents
Smart JSON Formatter Development Tool
Also, the tool supports simple installation to the command line for Debian-based operating systems and macOS; users can use it on any local JSON script output, sending it automatically to a dynamically opened browser tab.
Color Blind Web Page Filter
• Protanopia (red/green color blindness; anomalous red cones)
• Deuteranopia (red/green color blindness; anomalous green cones)
• Tritanopia (blue/yellow color blindness; anomalous blue cones)
• Greyscale/achromatopsia (quick check for all forms of colorblindness)
Sprites Generator Tool
Web Questionnaire as a Decision Support System
The system supports flexible configuration of question lists, answer variants, answer logic, and results estimation logic, with dynamic report generation on why the system gives a certain result.
Consulting Tools for Dynamic Analysis of Geo-stats Data
Database Management Tool for Huge Item Storage
Quizzes Builder
Performance-optimized CMS
Education
Additional Education in Computer Science
Intel Winter & Summer Schools - Novosibirsk, Russia
Postgraduate Degree in Measurement Methods and Technical Equipment for Physical Experiments
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
Additional Education in Business Management
School of MBA (SMBA) - Akademgorodok, Novosibirsk, Russia
Master's Degree in Physical and Technical Information Technologies
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
Bachelor's of Science Degree in Automation of Physical and Technical Researches
Novosibirsk State University - Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Vuex, Vue Material, Vue, Web API, JSON-RPC, JSONP, LocalStorage, AES, Backbone.js, Redis Queue, jQuery CDN, Mailchimp API, Sockets, Social Media APIs, Mustache, JSON API, Backbone.Marionette, Django ORM, Socket.IO, PyMongo, REST APIs, NumPy, jQuery Plugins, AMQP, Handlebars, Python Imaging Library, OpenCV, Node.js, PiLLoW, jQuery UI, jQuery, D3.js, Chart.js, Telegram Bot API, Playwright, OpenSSL, Google API, Google Calendar API, Google Maps API, React, SciPy, PyQt 4, PyQt, SQLAlchemy, NetworkX, ZeroMQ, OpenGL, GitHub API, DirectX, PIL, Ractive.js, OpenAI API
Tools
Vue CLI, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Mailchimp, Trello, Bitbucket, AWS ELB, Front-end Build Tools, Slack, GitLab, Git, GitHub, AWS IAM, JavaScript Testing, MongoLab, Mongoose, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), PyCharm, Grunt, RabbitMQ, Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Google Analytics, Boto, Scikit-image, uWSGI, SQLiteManager, NGINX, TokBox, ChatGPT, Apache HTTP Server, Docker Compose, Postman, Beanstalk, lighttpd, Adobe Photoshop, Apache, n8n, VPN, Subversion (SVN), GCC, MinGW, Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), Sentry, WebStorm, Graphene, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Eclipse IDE, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Microsoft Silverlight, Shell, Mathematica, Terraform, Ansible, Helm, AI Prompts, Webpack, Gulp, Canvas, Grafana, Claude, Observability Tools, Prisma
Languages
ES5, ECMAScript (ES6), C, C++, HTML5, CSS3, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSLT, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), XSLT, HTML, Python, UML, XML, TypeScript, Less, SCSS, GraphQL, PHP, Perl, Bash Script, ES7, Solidity, F#, C#, Pascal, Delphi, Visual Basic, BASIC, JADE, Java, Ruby, Assembler
Frameworks
Vue SSR, Bootstrap, Responsive Frameworks, Bootstrap 3, Bootstrap 2, Bootstrap 3+, AJAX.OOP, Express.js, JavaScriptCore, Django, Django REST Framework, Web2py, Next.js, Selenium, Message UI, Flask, Angular, AngularJS, Zend Framework, LangGraph, Qt, GraphLab, React Native, .NET, Koa, Scrapy, Tailwind CSS
Paradigms
Rapid Prototyping, Web App Design, Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Responsive Development, Scrum, Prototype-based OOP, Continuous Deployment, Back-end Architecture, Scalable Application, Agile, Agile Product Management, Agile UX, Web Application Architecture, Microservices, Rijndael, Design Patterns, Responsive, Responsive Layout, Object-relational Mapping (ORM), MEAN Stack, Model-driven Engineering (MDE), REST, Data-driven Programming, App Development, Unit Testing, Automation, UI Design, Business-driven Design, Behavior-driven Development (BDD), Hosting, State Pattern, DevOps, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Test-driven Development (TDD), Concurrent Programming, Agile Software Development, Waterfall Development, Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Object-oriented Analysis & Design (OOAD), Parallel Programming, Pair Programming, Class-based OOP, Functional Analysis, PMBOK, Load Testing, Best Practices
Platforms
Linux Mint, Amazon, Web, Debian, Amazon Linux, Docker, Heroku, Amazon EC2, Linux, MacOS, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Debian Linux, Windows, WordPress, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Django CMS, LAMP, Windows Server, Google App Engine, Oracle, Blockchain, Ethereum, Kubernetes, Directus, Vercel
Storage
JSON, XML-RPC, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), MongoDB, Redis, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, Microsoft SQL Server, Database Security, JsonPath, Neo4j, RavenDB, Google Cloud, Elasticsearch, Amazon DynamoDB
Industry Expertise
Marketing
Other
Technical Consulting, Software Consulting, Technology Consulting, Web Consulting, Consulting, Vue Router, Elastic Load Balancers, SparkPost, Gitolite, Mobile First, Image Processing, Web Hosting & Domain Setup, Cryptography, FontAwesome, Full-stack, Data Scraping, Scalability, Web Scraping, Scraping, Web Scalability, Performance Optimization, Back-end Development, Back-end Performance, Development, UI Development, Web Development, Web App Deployment, Back-end, SSH, SSL Configurations, SSL Certificates, GNU, SSL, Public-key Cryptography, Web Hosting, Domains & Hosting, Prototyping, RPC, Pattern Design, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Matching, Visualization, Data Visualization, Cookies, Social Media Login, CSV, CSV File Processing, Data Processing, Signal Processing, Text Processing, Computer Science, Bootstrapping, 3DES, DES, Graphs, GraphDB, Bootstrap UI, Messaging, Message Queues, WebSockets, Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), TCP/IP, UDP, Survey Programming, Surveys, Ajax, Network Programming, DNS, Networks, Software Engineering, Software Development, Freelancing, Programming, Front-end Development, User Interface (UI), User Experience (UX), Remote Work, Embedded Software, Statistics, Large Language Models (LLMs), Artificial Intelligence (AI), APIs, Scalable Architecture, API Integration, Session Handling, Authentication, FastAPI, Statistical Analysis, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Dashboards, AI Pipeline, Conversational AI, Recommendation Systems, AI Tools, Webhooks, OpenAI, Document Processing, AI Agents, Architecture, Full-stack Development, Telegram Bots, AI Chatbots, AI Programming, CAPTCHA, Natural Language Processing (NLP), AI-augmented Software Engineering (AIASE), Multistage LLM Chains, Conversational Interfaces, AI Assistants, MVP Design, Cloud Services, Web Dashboards, LLM Orchestration & Pipelines, AI-assisted Software Engineering, Intelligent Agents, Payments, User Roles, Data Protection, AI Automation, Workflow Automation, Apps, PWA, Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), Front-end, Video Processing, GRAPH, Computer Vision, Color Science, Behavioral Science, Security, Web App Security, Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Computer Security, IPv6, Internet of Things (IoT), Scientific Computing, Clustering, Game Development, HTTP, Pinecone, LangChain, AgentGPT, Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVAs), AI Integration, AI Agent Orchestration, FTP, CGI, Pixel, Shaders, Amazon Route 53, Supervisory, JetBrains IDE, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Software Architecture, Team Management, Time Management, Business Process Analysis, Risk Management, Growth Strategy, Business Cases, Machine Learning, Software Design, DSP, Telecom Equipment & Solutions, C++ Memory Model, Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical Analysis, Physics, Quantum Physics, K3s, Argo CD, LoRa, Bitrix24, Biometrics, SVG, Point of Sale, Social Media Marketing (SMM), Cloud Platforms, CI/CD Pipelines, Bots, VPS/VDS, SaaS, Problem Solving, Large-scale Projects
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