About me
Hi! I'm Yakov K.
I am a full-stack dev with a diverse set of engineering skills and interests. Throughout my career I've gained experience in Backend, Frontend, Mobile, DevOps, and everything in between while being engaged in a list of projects, startups, and OSS initiatives.
I value soft skills and have experience forming and managing teams, conducting interviews, and leading developer groups. I am passionate about mentoring and explaining complex concepts in simple words.
My current stack that I use daily consists of Dart, Flutter, Nix, TypeScript, and SQL, while I'm also working closely with Swift, Kotlin, Bash and Haskell. I'm accustomed with Python, Java, Elixir, F#, and C/C++. macOS/Linux are my daily OS drivers. I've had the privilege to work in various fields, starting with AI and web3 to fashion-tech and fintech, mostly with USA/Canada-based companies and startups.
As of now, I'm mostly doing consulting, training, and contract work, and building my projects, most of which are open source. This page is open source as well.
Feel free to reach out via email if you’d like to discuss anything - I’m always open to collaborations, new ideas, and interesting projects! My passion is helping businesses and startups leverage their tech stack’s potential to the maximum :)
Projects
Mobile apps, websites, and (a tad too much) open source tools, libraries, and packages.
A comprehensive overview of my professional experience can be found on LinkedIn, as there are listed only projects under my full ownership, including those developed under contract agreements.
Mobile apps
Relatively
Open source Haskell TypeScript Dart Flutter SQL
Advanced task manager that allows for defining sequential task flows using graphs of dependencies. Automatically determines priority, order, and available tasks for complex flows.
Passworthy Storage
Open source * Dart Flutter App Store
An application for storing, generating, and manipulating sensitive data with military-grade encryption, local-first
Passworthy
Swift SwiftUI App Store
A previous iteration of Passworthy Storage, fitting for generating secure passwords and other secrets.
Measuring units
Swift SwiftUI Combine Limited NDA
An application for converting and transforming streams of data consisting of different measuring units with requirements for real-time conversion on the spot. Made for an external client.
UnMelancholy
Flutter Dart SQL Nix AppStore
A mood diary that forces the user to describe emotions and their anchors, forcing them to establish patterns between actions and emotions. Fully encrypted and prioritizes a local-first approach.
Runes
Open source* Flutter Dart
Language training app that teaches non-latin alphabet letters by example. Intended for beginners learning languages, utilizing pronunciation-visual relation for memorizing letters.
Medical E-commerce
Flutter Dart AppStore Limited NDA
An e-commerce application of medical products and services for people with disabilities. Focused on autoimmune-related topics.
Web
This blog
web Open source Dart Nix Reify Cloudflare
This blog. Made in pure Dart using my Static Site Generator, Reify. Written in reactive templateless eDSL and classless CSS.
Doglang
webFlutter Web Dart Cloudflare
A site that I made out of spite because an online form was being picky.
Server SaaS
Arkenstone
Crypto Haskell Nix Limited NDA
NDA
μN
Social Node TypeScript Limited NDA
An invite-only application, made as a proof of concept for a proprietary algorithm. Allows for establishing multi-way social connections through anonymous invites.
Activity
Consulting / Contract
As of now, I'm mostly doing consulting/contractor work, which is a broad description for numerous reasons. I have worked with different startups, companies, and agencies on different tasks, and things tend to not be the same across the context.
Contact me by mail if you have something to discuss, I truly love to help resolve pain-points, big and small :)
In the last years, I have worked with b2b, b2c, crypto-, health-, finance-, ai- and other fields. Either helping with existing solutions, helping with forming and structuring teams, establishing a productive flow and tech stack, mentoring and training engineers, conducting technical interviews, implementing core features and architectural examples, and things in between.
I don't have a fixed hourly/project rate, as those details are highly project-specific, and range depending on the scope and the kind of work.
Contributions
Over the years I contributed to a list of open source and free projects, libraries, and applications alike.
I value my contributions to the OpenAPS (artificial pancreas system) project, but most of my contributions are directed towards ecosystems of the tools that I use. Dart, Haskell, and Nix being my points of focus. Open source community is one of the best places to collaborate on things that benefit all developers, and it is something that I firmly believe in.
Other
Packages & tools
Core Flake
Open source Nix Flakes Template
Concise and expressive base flake. Replaces existing solutions by providing a smarter API that requires as little info as possible and derives large chunks by abstracting dependencies and outputs.
Home Flake
Nix
My working setup, fully in Nix. Uses nix-darwin for system-wide integrations on macOS and Home Manager for everything else. Depends on Core Flake.
Nix Act
Open source Nix GitHub Actions
A composed GitHub Action that installs Nix, enables caching, and does other set-up actions for immediate setup. Best used with flakes.
Reify
Open source Dart Nix GitHub Actions Template
Templateless, Declarative, Component-based Static Site Generator that this site is powered by. Allows for hot reload of both Components and sources.
Pure
Open source Dart
Functional essential. Does not implement any language-specific, foreign concepts from other languages, but brings atomic building blocs for writing idiomatic Dart code, in functional style.
Mark
Open source Dart
Data-driven logging library that treats log entries as typed objects, allowing for processing by multiple implementations of processors, structured logging, and handling the whole process as functions over data. Used in almost every application listed above.
Purple Starter
Open source Dart Flutter Template
Base Flutter template that makes starting a new application a breeze, allowing for fast iteration while maintaining industry-level quality. Utilizes a range of packages and creates an architectural foundation universal for most Flutter apps.
Purple Lints
Open source Dart
My hand-picked list of dart lints. Tailored by balance on being as strict as possible, while also being reasonable and resulting in concise, maintainable code
Arbor
Open source archive Dart Flutter
Graph-based Dependency Injection framework. One of the previous works that resulted in Sym.
Typed Preferences
Open source Dart Flutter
Typed, DAO-based SharedPreferences driver. Adds a layer of type safety through abstracted field definitions through flexible schemas.
Snippy Templates
Open source Dart VS Code Template
Declarative snippets generator for VSCode for decoupled and human-readable templates. Each template is defined in its file, after which they are transformed and combined into a resulting artifact.
StreamBLoC
Open source Dart Flutter
Modern implementation of the original Business Logic Component that uses asynchronous generators to describe relationships between events and states. Being one of the previous foundational works for Sym, it is still very much relevant.
Makefile & Markdown for Dart
Open source Dart
A set of composable parsers and renderers that fit nicely together. Used for automatic documentation generation for Makefiles in Purple Starter.
Sum
Open source archive Dart
Sum types / Unions expressed in Dart for asynchronous data, error handling, and more. Archived and replaced by Luna for more flexibility and control.
Dart REPL
Open source Dart
A simple and fast implementation of REPL for Dart. Can be used as a lightweight and local analogue for online compiles as a playground or an environment for debugging.
Scoped Logger
Coming soon Haskell
Lightweight, monadic, fast, and abstract implementation of a structured logger with scopable message processors. Heavily polymorphic and customizable, which allows for un-opinionated usage.
Cord
Coming soon Dart
Serialization package that uses pseudo polymorphism instead of code generation for defining serialization rules. Completely eliminates the need for a build step.
Luna
Coming soon Dart
Instant generator for Algebraic Data Types. Reduces build step times 100 fold, while leveraging current language features for producing compile-time safe Sum and Product types.
Sym
Coming soon Flutter Dart DI State management Microframework
Reactive microframework for declarative encoding of Business Logic. Ties together Dependencies, State, and Site Effects in graphs that describe the behavior of the application, allowing for rapid development. Used by a lot of applications listed here.