# Engineering Manager, Tech Advisor & Author 
> Engineering manager and technical advisor to startups and Fortune 500 companies. Forbes Technology Council member. Featured in the Financial Times.
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## Posts
- [MyFlyRight: 1M Flight Claims on a Rebuilt Platform](https://vorobyov.me/myflyright-1m-flight-claims-on-a-rebuilt-platform.md) - jQuery prototype inherited 2016, rebuilt from scratch on React + Laravel · algorithm-driven EU261 eligibility, qualified cases routed to lawyers · 1M+ claims across all EU airlines and jurisdictions · €100M+ recovered · top 10 Hamburg startup.
- [Greek House: From Stalled Releases to a 2024 Exit](https://vorobyov.me/greek-house-from-stalled-releases-to-a-2024-exit.md) - Previous team shipped once every few months · CI/CD set up and shipping the same week · same-day releases through rush season · Inc. 5000 multiple years · official US college licensing · acquired 2024 · founder now building his next company with us.
- [Nautical Commerce: Embedded Team to SOC 2 and Scale](https://vorobyov.me/nautical-commerce-embedded-team-to-soc-2-and-scale.md) - $30M raised from Drive Capital · 7 embedded engineers, one-year-old codebase · frontend rebuild, payments, multi-currency, multi-language, tax logic · enterprise-grade and SOC 2 ready · 200K+ monthly transactions · assets acquired by Traide.
- [Ripe: from Rebuild to Exit](https://vorobyov.me/ripe-from-rebuild-to-exit.md) - Manhattan catering business with DigitalOcean, MongoDB, and Kickstarter as customers before a line of code · full platform built 2016: ordering, kitchen ops, delivery, billing · 1,000+ weekly orders · five years of support · acquired by Hungry, 2020.
- [Netdata on real hardware: registration, sensors, and alert templates that don't lie](https://vorobyov.me/netdata-on-real-hardware-registration-sensors-and-alert-templates-that-dont-lie.md) - Netdata 2.10.3 · kickstart claim + claim.conf · go.d sensors and freeipmi against a Supermicro BMC · the silent boot race and the systemd timer fix · template vs alarm, lookup, hysteresis, netdatacli reload-health · alert on collector presence.
- [What It Took to Write and Publish 42](https://vorobyov.me/what-it-took-to-write-and-publish-42.md) - How a 12-chapter outline became a 22-chapter book · why the imprint, the ISBNs, and the insurance are worth it · one reproducible build for print and Kindle · free chapters as strategy · full numbers
- [What my roof antenna actually hears: three months of ADS-B on the Portuguese coast](https://vorobyov.me/what-my-roof-antenna-actually-hears-three-months-of-ads-b-on-the-portuguese-coast.md) - Station T-LPAR4 · online since 2026-05-04 · Raspberry Pi + FlightAware Pro Stick Plus + FlightAware 5.5 dBi (DPD 9 dBi pending) · dump1090-fa / tar1090 / graphs1090 · feeding Flightradar24, FlightAware, ADS-B Exchange.
- [The Claude Code setup I actually run](https://vorobyov.me/the-claude-code-setup-i-actually-run.md) - Two-tier CLAUDE.md · path-scoped rule packs for web / Android / iOS / compute · 50 subagents across four stacks · guard-commit and format hooks · MIT at github.com/roadhero/claude-code-setup · from the book "42: The AI Builder's Stack."
- [Snapwire: Engineering Lead](https://vorobyov.me/snapwire-engineering-lead.md) - Embedded engineering manager and technical product lead on Snapwire for two and a half years — V2 platform, Stripe Connect, and an image pipeline taken from 70% to 95% tagging accuracy.
- [Building HeyTutor: Seed to Series](https://vorobyov.me/building-heytutor.md) - Owning the architecture, infrastructure, hiring, and roadmap of a tutoring marketplace from 2016 to 2025 — and handing it off clean.
- [Sanity CMS in 2026: The Headless CMS That Actually Respects Your Time](https://vorobyov.me/sanity-cms-in-2026-the-headless-cms-that-actually-respects-your-time.md) - Migrated from Contentful after the free-plan crackdown · 20 seats, 10K documents, 1M CDN requests on Sanity's free tier · one-command migration via contentful-to-sanity · MCP integration for creating, patching, and auditing content without opening the Studio.
- [Astro in 2026: The Framework That Wins by Doing Less](https://vorobyov.me/astro-in-2026-the-framework-that-wins-by-doing-less.md) - Zero JavaScript by default · 5–15 KB of HTML and CSS per page · 116 pages built in 2.66 seconds · #1 by developer satisfaction in State of JS 2025, 39 points ahead of Next.js · acquired by Cloudflare in January 2026, still MIT.
- [Rebuilding agency website in 2026 – Lessons learned](https://vorobyov.me/rebuilding-agency-website-in-2026-lessons-learned.md) - Nuxt + Contentful → Astro + Sanity · 116 static pages, zero JS · Ahrefs health score 73 → 99 in three sessions via MCP · 41 keywords at KD 0–3 covering 25,000+ monthly searches · $8.60/month on Hetzner + Coolify + Cloudflare.

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