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Artur Artsabliuk
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Ljubljana, Slovenia
Toptal member since June 8, 2026
Bio
Artur is a software engineer with 12+ years of experience building web apps for startups and enterprises. He has led teams through processes and growth while remaining passionate about hands-on coding. In the past 2 years, he has worked on AI/agent workflows, including skills, rules, scripts, CI for reviews, tests and quality, and self-hosted agents. Artur adapts, improves, and values respect, clarity, and motivated teammates. Outside of work, he learns AI tools, new languages, and new PLs.
Portfolio
Hospitable
PHP, Python, Go, AI Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
SpendHQ
AWS IoT, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js...
HITCH Works
AWS IoT, Azure, TypeScript, Node.js, React, TypeORM, GraphQL, Knex.js
Experience
- MacOS - 13 years
- Linux - 13 years
- Engineering - 13 years
- JavaScript - 13 years
- Node.js - 8 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- Vue - 7 years
- PHP - 5 years
Preferred Environment
MacOS, Linux, Slack, Linear
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is an AI pipeline powering my AI news website. It generates YouTube content on its own, costs nothing, and attracts 200 daily unique visitors.
Work Experience
AI Tooling Engineer
2026 - PRESENT
Hospitable
- Created a bootstrapped environment that included the setup of 20+ repositories, different PLs, package managers, a local database, and production data slicing. Adopted for internal network use.
- Created a self-hosted agent pool with the Cursor SDK that used a bootstrapped environment as its own workspace, providing access to fully bootstrapped machines and AI layers, so that non-technical teammates could create MRs and features.
- Built a Slack bot and an orchestration layer that helped provide access to the self-hosted agent pool. Technical and non-technical teams use it daily to perform investigations, bug fixes, analysis, deep-dive discoveries, and feature development.
Technologies: PHP, Python, Go, AI Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Lead Software Engineer
2023 - 2026
SpendHQ
- Identified some AI opportunities like automated documentation, AI code reviews, and refactoring pipelines. Achieved measurable impact: Increased unit test creation and improved test coverage.
- Led 2 teams of 4 engineers while remaining hands-on in development. Introduced AI workflows with Cody AI to improve velocity and automation.
- Collaborated with leads and the product team on database or system designs, UI prototyping in Figma, and UX flow design.
- Automated routine engineering tasks via internal tools for documentation, code reviews, and refactoring.
- Led team-wide adoption of AI tools such as Cursor, Claude Code, and Opus 4.5, integrating them into development workflows.
- Introduced shared rules and skills repositories to standardize AI-assisted development.
- Owned AI governance, including optimizing token usage and defining cross-team standards.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, Vuex, Vue, Pinia, ADONIS, Express.js, Laravel, Ruby on Rails 8, MariaDB, SingleStore, Redis, Snowflake, PostgreSQL, SQLite, AI Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Senior Full-stack Engineer
2022 - 2023
HITCH Works
- Collaborated with an international team, working closely with product managers. Maintained serverless architecture using Lambda functions with code generation.
- Built new features. Maintained internal and external tools. Worked on a complex application with many business edge cases.
- Focused on increasing test coverage, improving typing quality and code reliability.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Azure, TypeScript, Node.js, React, TypeORM, GraphQL, Knex.js
Senior Front-end Developer
2019 - 2022
Svitla Systems
- Built new features while addressing technical debt. Set up testing frameworks and established unit testing standards.
- Rebuilt an existing enterprise application from scratch using new technologies. Initialized new repositories and contributed to early concepts for a redesigned application. Created technical design solutions, defined workflows, and designed UX.
- Built the first design system and custom component library for the front end. Introduced client-side session caching to improve user experience and performance.
- Collaborated with back-end team to create a GraphQL-like framework for standardized client-server communication.
- Promoted to Front-end Lead, working closely with other departments and teams.
Technologies: AWS IoT, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Node.js, Vue, Laravel, ADONIS, Express.js, MariaDB, Redis, MongoDB
Senior Front-end Engineer
2017 - 2019
Ztorie
- Built an online editor web app that helped people create vertical mobile content (like Instagram stories or YouTube shorts).
- Worked with lots of media types, including sound, GIFs, videos, and text, including heavy web animations. Came up with our own WYSIWYG editor for text.
- Rendered layered media content as a bundled video. Involved in building the rendering engine that produced video content at 30 FPS out of constructed projects in a web app.
Technologies: AWS IoT, JavaScript, Node.js, React, Vue, Express.js, Vuex, Vue 2, Redux, MongoDB
Software Engineer
2013 - 2017
An Online Freelance Agency
- Worked in various smaller studios, completing 7,000+ hours of contract work.
- Contributed mostly to eCommerce projects, smaller business websites, and startups, with the majority on JavaScript and PHP codebases.
- Earned the platform's Top Rated badge for being in the top 10% with consistent client satisfaction.
Technologies: JavaScript, PHP, Laravel, Node.js, jQuery, CSS, SCSS, Express.js, WebSockets, eCommerce
Experience
AI News Aggregator
https://botbeat.news/A fully automated AI news aggregator that scrapes the internet for AI news from over 1000+ sources, generates short summaries and quick-to-read articles. It generates YouTube videos from content and is a fully automated AI pipeline that requires no human input.
The aggregator scrapes, ranks, and posts articles. On a daily and weekly basis, it also queries by rank, then creates a video script, an audio layer, and a video layer, and then it renders and posts.
The aggregator scrapes, ranks, and posts articles. On a daily and weekly basis, it also queries by rank, then creates a video script, an audio layer, and a video layer, and then it renders and posts.
Education
2007 - 2013
Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering
PMUU - Ukraine
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, jQuery, Vue, Vuex, Vue 2, React
Tools
Slack, ADONIS, Knex.js
Languages
CSS, SCSS, TypeScript, JavaScript, PHP, GraphQL, Python, Ruby, Snowflake, Go
Frameworks
Express.js, Redux, Laravel, NestJS
Platforms
MacOS, Linux, AWS IoT, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Azure
Storage
MongoDB, MariaDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, SQLite
Other
WebSockets, AI Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Linear, Engineering, eCommerce, TypeORM, Pinia, Ruby on Rails 8, SingleStore
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