verkhea

Product Engineer

I build products end to end. Design, code, ship. Usually fast: my music player Ohm went from idea to a shipped app in one week.

My stack is TypeScript, React and Node on the web, Python on the backend, Swift on macOS and iOS, React Native or Flutter when a project calls for it. The AI layer is where I live now: LLM agents, MCP, Claude Code, n8n. A lot of my code is written with agents and reviewed line by line. That is what AI-first means to me: the tools changed, the bar for craft did not.

Some of the work:

• Founding engineer at Skygen.ai, an AI computer-use agent. First engineering hire, owned the macOS app, the web surface and the OS-control MCP server. $7M raised, 100k+ users, 50+ features shipped while the team grew from 1 to 20+.

• At OrbosAI I noticed support triage eating the team alive, built a GPT bot that closed about 40% of routine tickets on its own.

• Solo products: Ohm (desktop audiophile player), Airwind (open source email client for macOS), Relay (a canvas where AI agents work next to you), CLiOS (iOS client for an AI agent).

Today I run Verkh.tech, a product studio for early-stage startups. YC application sites, fundraising pages, MVPs, brand systems. I do discovery, design and code myself and bring in a small team when scope demands it.

Portfolio: egor.verkh.tech

Reach me: [email protected]


Experience: 5 years

Yearly salary: $80,000

Hourly rate: $0

Nationality: 🌏 Remote


Experience

Founding Engineer
Skygen AI
2024 - 2026
Skygen.ai - AI computer-use agent ($7M raised, 100k+ users) • First engineering hire; owned the client stack (macOS, web, marketing) as team grew 1 to 20+. • Built the macOS app (Tauri/Rust + React) and OS-control MCP server (Accessibility, ScreenCaptureKit, input automation, screen recording) - gave the agent full OS control. • Owned product, design, and brand from day one; shipped 50+ end-to-end features; architecture and standards still in production.
Founder & Engineer
Verkh Tech
2024 - 2026
Verkh.tech - product studio for early-stage startups • Founded the studio; engagements span pre-seed/seed/Series A startups - YC applications, fundraising sites, MVPs, brand systems (NDA). • Own each engagement end-to-end (discovery, architecture, code); scale teams solo to 4–10 contractors per project.
Product Engineer
OrbosAI
2023 - 2024
OrbosAI - Telegram-native AI media generation • Spotted L1 triage as the 3-engineer team’s bottleneck; shipped GPT-powered bot that autonomously closed roughly 40% of routine tickets (data validation, formatting fixes). • Designed and shipped the first-ever in-Telegram video editor - native video creation without leaving the app. • Scoped and shipped 20+ AI media generation integrations across text, image, video, and voice - the multi-provider stack at the core of the product.
Full-Stack Developer
Hunt.ME
2022 - 2023
• Built AI text+voice conversation bot for outbound lead gen - per-rep throughput grew from 7 to 30 leads/day; total client volume +20%. • Built cross-posting tool with video uniqueization (filter tweaks, dynamic logo, animation) - 40+ social accounts without duplicate-content flags. • Automated HR workflows (+30% placement speed); rebuilt CRM into team’s daily driver.
Full-Stack Developer
Contractor
2020 - 2023
Shipped 30+ web and mobile projects for international clients via Fiverr and Upwork.

Skills

ai
design
engineer
founding-engineer
product-designer
product-lead
web3
full-stack
english
russian