Damir Krasilnikov / trendon.monster

Python backend engineering, applied AI systems, ML/NLP foundations, product delivery, and selected public launches.

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Damir Krasilnikov

Python Backend Engineer | Applied AI / LLM Systems Engineer | Product, Platform & Automation

I build backend platforms, AI-enabled products, and internal systems with practical foundations in mathematics, classical ML, NLP, and long-term maintainability, and I am open to freelance and contract delivery.

Snapshot
  • Commercial delivery since 2024
  • Selected systems 10+
  • Freelance status Open for freelance and contract work
  • Delivery modes turnkey -> rescue
Working style
  • Stable delivery over demo theatrics.
  • Clear contracts and maintainable systems.
  • Math, ML, and NLP applied to real workflows.
  • Open to freelance and contract delivery.
Focus areas
Python engineerBackend engineerApplied AI engineerAI / LLM engineerFull-stack AI product engineer
Overview / 01

Python backend engineer building stable systems, applied AI products, and automation.

Commercial and project work covers backend platforms, AI assistants, knowledge systems, automation, bot products, parser and converter infrastructure, education workflows, and ML/NLP-heavy engineering tooling.

The through-line is pragmatic delivery: clarify scope, shape the system, implement it, validate it, document it, and leave the repository in a state that others can extend with confidence.

Freelance / 03

Open for freelance, contract work, turnkey builds, and rescue delivery.

A structured offer for founders, operators, and teams that need a system shipped, stabilized, or integrated into real business workflows.

Open for freelance and contract work

Russia and international projects, remote delivery, scoped contracts, rescue work, and turnkey builds.

Best fit for founders, teams, and operators who need a senior engineer to ship, stabilize, or extend a real system rather than stop at prototype-level output.

Delivery modes
  • turnkey build
  • audit + rescue delivery
  • bug fixing and hardening
  • integration sprint
  • infrastructure setup
  • technical partner mode
Websites, services, and delivery

From marketing sites to internal services and production-facing digital surfaces for Russian and international markets.

  • websites and web applications
  • Russian and international digital services
  • turnkey MVPs, internal tools, and delivery ownership
  • bug fixing, refactors, and rescue delivery
  • feature extensions and production hardening
AI, agents, and data systems

Applied AI with concrete workflow value: assistants, agents, datasets, and business-hypothesis validation tied to actual operations.

  • AI features, copilots, and working assistants
  • chatbots, agents, and RAG workflows
  • dataset creation after parsing and normalization
  • mini business-hypothesis checks and AI-first MVPs
  • automation without locking the business into no-code platforms
Infrastructure, analytics, and integrations

For teams that need the runtime, metrics, and enterprise wiring to work, not just the application code.

  • company server and cloud infrastructure setup
  • deployment, Dockerization, and runtime stabilization
  • business metrics, dashboards, and analytics wiring
  • CRM, tracker, and corporate system integrations
  • API and event-flow integration across teams
Courses, enablement, and adjacent production support

Education products, public-facing packaging, and adjacent production services around technical delivery.

  • course creation and technical education products
  • employee AI-coding workshops and enablement
  • resume packaging and polished public profiles
  • automated profile visuals and supporting assets
  • video editing and 3D design via partner platforms
Core skills / 04

Backend, applied AI, ML/NLP foundations, and operational depth.

A practical mix of backend engineering, AI integration, classical ML, NLP understanding, infrastructure awareness, and full-cycle product work.

01 Backend and platform

Python-first delivery for systems that need contracts, storage, queues, and operational sanity.

  • Python 3.11+
  • FastAPI
  • SQLAlchemy
  • PostgreSQL
  • asyncio
  • REST APIs
  • workers
  • Docker
02 Applied AI, ML, and NLP

Combining LLM practice, classical machine learning, and NLP foundations into systems that work beyond demo conditions.

  • RAG
  • NLP pipelines
  • embeddings
  • gradient boosting
  • structured output
  • evaluation loops
  • multimodal parsing
  • agent workflows
  • LangGraph
03 Product and operations

Clear boundaries between shipping velocity, product sense, and long-term maintainability.

  • requirements decomposition
  • billing logic
  • admin tooling
  • observability
  • CI/CD
  • deployment packaging
  • reverse proxies
  • S3-compatible storage
04 Full-stack support when needed

Comfortable carrying the product across UI, APIs, background work, and release loops.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • TailwindCSS
  • dashboards
  • editor-like UX
  • Telegram UX
  • QA loops
Selected work / 05

Platforms, products, and internal systems delivered end to end.

Selected projects across backend platforms, AI products, internal tools, and delivery infrastructure.

product 02

Tuxedo Suite

Production-facing AI content workspace with structured LLM modes, background tasks, object storage, editor flows, and credit-aware usage logic.

Covered 5+ runtime services, 8+ core data models, and 9 workflow modes across writing, editing, and analysis.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Celery

Focused on usable workflows, async media handling, and operational cost awareness.

saas 03

Multi-tenant Telegram AI platform

Built a role-aware AI SaaS for Telegram with billing tiers, webhooks, analytics, notifications, and separate bot runtimes per deployment context.

Included 20+ backend modules, 30+ frontend/admin pages, 12+ migrations, and configurable AI pipelines.

  • FastAPI
  • React
  • aiogram
  • PostgreSQL
  • billing
  • containers

Strong example of product, backend, and operations ownership in one system.

ai 04

Corporate RAG and knowledge platform

Internal knowledge assistant with document ingestion, normalization, hybrid retrieval, reranking, answer assembly, and admin quality loops.

Supported 7+ document formats, multiple knowledge sources, provider fallback, and feedback-driven retrieval improvement.

  • Telegram
  • PGVector
  • retrieval
  • evaluation
  • admin tooling
  • Docker

Designed for reliability and iterative answer quality, not just a demo chatbot.

systems 05

trendon: public agent-first engineering template

Open-source repository template with AGENTS routing, repo-local docs, validators, observability, browser proof loops, and machine-checkable release discipline.

Turns the OpenAI harness ideas into a public, reusable implementation that other engineers can inspect, fork, and adapt.

  • Codex workflows
  • RFCs
  • validators
  • observability
  • browser proof
  • quality gates

Published openly so the operating model is visible in code, docs, and verification artifacts rather than only described in prose.

Achievements / 06

Hackathons, competitions, and benchmark-oriented work.

Selected wins and technical results across hackathons, AI competitions, and reliability-focused tracks.

Apr 2026 01

BitGN: Agent Benchmarks and Challenges

Participant, Personal and Trustworthy track

Worked directly in a benchmark-driven challenge environment focused on reliable and trustworthy autonomous agents.

2025-2026 02

Psychographic profiling and recommendation challenge

Top-1 solution

Built a first-place pipeline by synthesizing training data with LLMs, training embeddings, and combining them with gradient boosting for psychotype detection and recommendation.

Aug 2024 03

Kazan Digital Transformation Hackathon

Finalist

Delivered an LLM-enabled resident-card and dynamic documentation workflow concept under hackathon pressure.

Jun 2024 04

ArtScience Hackathon

Winner

Built an interactive game platform using LLMs and image generation with a real backend pipeline.

May 2024 05

Tatar.BY Hackathon

Winner

Created an LLM-based story and test generation system that also received public coverage.

Experience / 07

Commercial engineering, formal study, and deliberate upskilling.

Commercial delivery, formal education, and parallel coursework in mathematics, ML, NLP, and MLOps developed side by side.

01 Python Engineer / Applied AI Systems Engineer Multiways LLC

Commercial work across backend platforms, applied AI systems, automation, SaaS products, analytics, Telegram applications, and maintainable delivery workflows.

02 NLP Developer / MLOps Engineer Tut Edu

Built an AI mentor for education on top of LLM and retrieval workflows, while also helping connect technical implementation to customer value.

03 Computer Science and Programming KNRTU-KAI College

Formal study plus deep self-driven training in mathematics, software engineering, backend systems, classical machine learning, NLP, and model-focused engineering.

04 ML, NLP, and MLOps coursework MIPT Stepik + Open Data Science

Studied programming, machine learning, NLP, and MLOps through MIPT Stepik tracks and multiple Open Data Science courses, then applied that material in real NLP and AI product work.

Resources / 08

Reference reading, public code, and supporting materials.

Selected links that explain the operating model behind the work and show how it was translated into public artifacts.

article reference available

Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world

The OpenAI engineering post that framed the agent-first harness ideas later adapted into the public `trendon` template.

open source public release available

trendon: public agent-first engineering template

Open-source repository with AGENTS routing, repo-local docs, validators, observability, browser proof, and current-worktree publication.

Launches / 09

Public launches, courses, and reusable releases.

A curated release deck for live public work: shipped code, learning assets, and links people can inspect right now.

labs / launches
  • live
    trendon agent-first template Public release of the agent-first engineering template with request/RFC/plan flow, worktree-local proof loops, observability, and deterministic publication.
    launch 01
  • live
    Full-cycle Telegram bot development: LangChain, Aiogram, SQL Stepik course on building AI assistants and Telegram bots with LangChain, Aiogram, SQL, deployment basics, and long-context application patterns.
    launch 02