Seva Rybakov
Verified Expert in Engineering
AI Integration Developer
Tbilisi, Georgia
Toptal member since September 6, 2015
Seva is a senior AI agent architect with over 15 years of experience specializing in multi-agent conversational AI. As a three-time co-founder and CTO, he architected the full AI agent platform at Elis—featuring dynamic voice and text agents with Claude, Anthropic, OpenAI, and LangGraph—acquired in 2026. Seva is a heavy daily user of Claude, achieving 3-4x faster development speeds. He has proven expertise in leading offshore AI teams and delivering production-grade agent systems.
Portfolio
Experience
- Ruby on Rails (RoR) - 10 years
- React - 5 years
- Python - 5 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 4 years
- TypeScript - 3 years
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) - 3 years
- AI Integration - 3 years
- Agentic AI - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Git, Tmux, Vim Text Editor, OS X, Claude Code
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is an AI chatbot for a company that is available in Slack, Jira, Notion, and meetings, and knows everything that is going on in a team.
Work Experience
AI Implementation Consultant & Instructor
Agents Autonomous
- Integrated Claude Code, GitHub Actions, and custom LLM agents into the development workflows of 8+ tech companies, cutting manual code review time by 40% and automating CI/CD pipelines with AI-driven testing and deployment.
- Helped 5+ non-tech businesses (eCommerce, real estate, and agencies) wire AI into their HubSpot CRMs, sales pipelines, and customer support flows using n8n automations, reducing lead response time by 60% and automating follow-up sequences.
- Built and deployed retrieval augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with LangChain and vector databases, set up OpenClaw for three organizations, and trained 20+ business users on prompt engineering, AI workflow design, and practical LLM adoption.
Staff Back-end & AI Engineer
Elis
- Led back-end development with Python and FastAPI, building the core AI-powered customer interview platform that captures rich qualitative insights beyond traditional surveys.
- Integrated LLM-driven conversational flows that dynamically adapt interviews based on customer responses, using OpenAI and Anthropic models.
- Architected the back-end and AI systems from the ground up as staff engineer, leveraging Claude Code for accelerated development workflows.
AI & Web3 Engineer
Brrian AI
- Built a Web3 KOL (Key Opinion Leader) wallet tracking system that monitors on-chain activity across Solana wallets, providing real-time insights into trading patterns and portfolio movements.
- Integrated AI-powered analytics using OpenAI to generate automated insights and sentiment analysis from blockchain transaction data and social signals.
- Developed the full-stack platform using Python and TypeScript, implementing real-time data pipelines for tracking high-profile crypto wallet movements across multiple chains.
Co-founder & CTO
Bridge23
- Led engineering as CTO, building an AI-powered personal assistant with integrations to Notion, Slack, Google Calendar, and other productivity tools using React, TypeScript, LangChain, and LangGraph.
- Defined technical strategy and oversaw product development on the Internet Computer Protocol (ICP) blockchain, leveraging Convex for real-time data management.
- Won an ICP blockchain development grant, validating the technical approach and product vision for the AI assistant platform.
- Used agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor to gain massive productivity on the development of the product.
Solidity Developer
Tribal
- Developed a suite of smart contracts for a lending platform.
- Integrated multi-signature wallet as an owner of smart contracts.
- Reached 80%+ test coverage of smart contract code, including multiple smart contract interactions.
Back-end Engineer
DAZN Moments
- Built the entire backend in Go on Google Cloud Platform for a Japanese football NFT marketplace, handling minting, trading, and user management for sports collectibles.
- Developed smart contracts on the Flow blockchain for minting and trading sports moment NFTs, enabling fans to collect and trade iconic Japanese football highlights.
- Designed and implemented RESTful APIs and microservices architecture on GCP, ensuring high availability and scalability for the NFT marketplace platform.
Senior Ruby on Rails Developer
RateIt
- Reached 100% unit test Ruby code coverage using RSpec.
- Worked on an extensive and reusable view component library.
- Developed a drag-and-drop survey creation interface and a back end to support it.
Instructor
Kenzie Academy
- Taught a cohort of 70 non-technical students the fundamentals of web development, covering JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
- Broke down programming concepts for beginners with no prior coding experience, guiding them from zero to building their own web pages.
- Designed and delivered a structured curriculum covering core web technologies, enabling students to complete hands-on projects by the end of the program.
Team Lead
Colgate-Palmolive
- Designed and implemented a cutting-edge referral product recommendation system, enabling dental and skincare professionals to suggest products to their clients seamlessly.
- Enhanced client satisfaction but also provided professionals with a revenue share based on their clients' purchases.
- Implemented system enhancements to enable customization, deployment, and theming across multiple regions and product lines, making it adaptable and scalable.
- Managed a distributed team of four highly skilled software engineers, effectively coordinating and guiding their remote collaboration.
Full-stack Application Developer
Tatango, Inc.
- Scaled the system and servers to send millions of SMS messages per hour reliably.
- Developed a rich text editor in React with lots of custom components.
- Worked on all kinds of caching to allow efficient CSV exports and table search/navigation.
Expert Mentor
Online Mentorship Platform
- Mentored in over 200 sessions for over 50 clients.
- Gained an average rating of 5.0 for 200 mentoring sessions! 100% satisfaction.
- Helped people solve their bootcamp and university coding problems.
- Helped several startups with their tough coding challenges.
- Gave advice on back-end, front-end, and server-side applications.
CTO
Be Worthwhile
- Solely wrote the entire web application.
- Developed a test-driven Ruby on Rails back-end.
- Wrote all the CSS from scratch to match the designer's PSD.
- Integrated with Google API, Facebook API, and Twilio API.
- Set up the server and deployed the application with the help of Digital Ocean, Ubuntu Linux, NGINX, Unicorn, and Capistrano.
Developer
Intransition
- Created a text-translate widget, embeddable into websites using jQuery and ASP.NET WebService.
- Worked on the transition from PSD to HTML.
- Helped develop the financial website in Ruby on Rails.
- Worked as a part of a big team on a J2EE web shop constructor site.
- Worked as a full-stack Web Developer on a data charting application using Backbone.js and Ruby on Rails.
Experience
Heard
https://heard.elis.ai/Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics - Minsk, Belarus
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics - Minsk, Belarus
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, Twilio API, Underscore.js, jQuery, OpenAI API, Claude API, REST APIs, Slack API, Node.js, Facebook API, Google API, Socket.IO, Stripe, Shopify API, Google Maps API, HubSpot API, LinkedIn API, ZeroMQ, Backbone.js
Tools
Git, RSpec, Claude Code, Capistrano, Tmux, Vim Text Editor, Prisma, Retool, Make (formerly Integromat), ManyChat, Adobe Photoshop, Ansible, Chef, Shopify Plus, Flow, n8n, Notion, Jira, Slack, Zapier, Google Sheets, Claude
Languages
Ruby, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5, SQL, TypeScript, GraphQL, Python, Rust, HTML, CSS3, Bash, Solidity, Python 3, Go
Frameworks
Express.js, Sinatra, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Tailwind CSS, Next.js, Material UI, Agentic Frameworks, ASP.NET, AngularJS, Stimulus, Hardhat, LangGraph
Paradigms
Test-driven Development (TDD), Real-time Systems, Back-end Architecture, Responsive, Microservices Architecture, Automation
Platforms
Linux, MacOS, Firebase, Vercel, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Shopify, Docker, Twilio, OS X, Jakarta EE (Java EE or J2EE), Amazon Web Services (AWS), LangSmith, Clerk, HubSpot, Salesforce
Storage
Redis, MongoDB, JSON, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Cloud Firestore, Memcached, Relational Databases, Google Cloud
Other
Front-end, A/B Testing, CSV, CSV File Processing, APIs, OpenAI, CTO, AI Integration, Architecture, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Authentication, Deployment, Large Language Models (LLMs), Scalable Architecture, Software Architecture, Back-end Development, Cursor AI, Full-stack, API Integration, AWS Cloud Architecture, Web Development, Webhooks, Full-stack Development, Integration, Marketplaces, Technical Architecture, AI-assisted Development, AI Tools, AI Enablement, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Third-party Integration, Anthropic, IMAP, WebSockets, eCommerce, Web Scraping, Analytics, Computer Science, Monorepos, CI/CD Pipelines, Security, Agentic AI, AI Voice Agents, Data Engineering, Agentic RAG Systems, CRM, Data Scraping, Image Manipulation, Lead Generation, Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG), Vector Databases, AI Agents, Cloud, Workflow Automation, OpenClaw, Workflow Automation & System Integration, Shopify Theme, Third-party APIs, Plugins, Page Speed Optimization, Web3, Ethers.js, FastAPI, ElevenLabs Solutions, LangChain, Convex, Solana, GitHub Actions, Linear, RAG Pipelines, Prompt Engineering, Airtable, Algorithms
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