VOL. IX · № 001Dispatch from Baku, Azerbaijan

Ogtay

Full-stack · AI · 9 yearsSend a wire →

The lede

Builder of quietly useful software from the edge of the Caspian.

9 years of full-stack work and a deepening obsession with AI systems that don't fall over in production. I keep two tabs open: a current role at GeniusMatch, and a small studio called Launch52 where bets get shipped before they get rationalized.

GeniusMatch · AI EngineerLaunch52 · Co-Founder9 years shippingBaku → remoteFull-stack · AI · RealtimeOpen to selective workCurrently obsessed with retrieval evalsHetzner pilledogtay.devGeniusMatch · AI EngineerLaunch52 · Co-Founder9 years shippingBaku → remoteFull-stack · AI · RealtimeOpen to selective workCurrently obsessed with retrieval evalsHetzner pilledogtay.dev

Section II

Currently

Two posts I'm holding down right now, plus one I keep alive on the side. Filed from Baku, Azerbaijan.

active postlive

GeniusMatch

Artificial Intelligence Engineer · Apr 2026 — present

Building a developer-metric tracker that turns engineering signal into team-performance insight, plus an AI recommendation layer that suggests where each engineer can level up.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • OpenAI
  • Postgres
  • Embeddings
active postlive

Launch52

Co-Founder · Nov 2025 — present

Indie product studio. Shipping a portfolio of small bets — link tools, voice AI, sheet automation, macOS apps. Same stack, same playbook, every launch.

  • Next.js
  • NestJS
  • Prisma
  • BullMQ
  • Hetzner
side bench · still warmJul 2023 — present

Ogtai Inc./ Founder

AI chat that reads video, audio, PDF, YouTube. RAG over Qdrant, Stripe, websockets. Now a side project.

Section III

The ledger.

Nine years on the keyboard. Below: every paid post, in order. Side projects filed separately. Receipts on request.
  1. 01
    2026
    now

    GeniusMatch· live

    Artificial Intelligence Engineer

    Building a developer-metric tracker that turns engineering signal into team-performance insight, plus an AI recommendation layer that suggests where each engineer can level up.

    Apr 2026 — present
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • OpenAI
    • Postgres
    • Embeddings
  2. 02
    2025
    now

    Launch52· live

    Co-Founder

    Indie product studio. Shipping a portfolio of small bets — link tools, voice AI, sheet automation, macOS apps. Same stack, same playbook, every launch.

    Nov 2025 — present
    • Next.js
    • NestJS
    • Prisma
    • BullMQ
    • Hetzner
  3. 03
    2026
    2026

    RiverAI

    AI Engineer

    Built an AI Inbox Agent that triages and replies on behalf of busy founders, plus a lead-classification pipeline that scores and routes inbound leads in real time.

    Jan 2026 — May 2026
    • FastAPI
    • Vue
    • DSPy
    • DeepEval
    • Langfuse
  4. 04
    2024
    2026

    Tailbox

    Lead Software Engineer

    Travel platform serving thousands. Real-time conversational video itinerary agent (frontend), multi-agent automation suite, full Grafana observability across the fleet.

    May 2024 — Mar 2026
    • TypeScript
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Node.js
    • NestJS
    • Python
    • FastAPI
    • Postgres
    • Redis
    • BullMQ
    • WebRTC
    • Tavus
    • OpenAI
    • LangGraph
    • Multi-agent
    • Docker
    • Kubernetes
    • Grafana
    • Prometheus
    • Loki
    • AWS
  5. 05
    2022
    2023

    Turing

    Full-Stack Developer

    E-commerce platform Deadstock.co. Laravel + Vue + Postgres.

    Apr 2022 — Mar 2023
    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • Vue
    • Postgres
    • Docker
    • REST
  6. 06
    2022
    2022

    Plena.io

    Full-Stack Developer

    Accounting bots, OCR document processing, Slack alerting.

    Feb 2022 — Jun 2022
    • Node.js
    • TypeScript
    • GCP
    • OCR
    • MySQL
    • Grafana
    • Slack
  7. 07
    2020
    2022

    Limak.az

    Full-Stack Developer

    E-com platform serving 10K+ users. Real-time Socket.io, dynamic SEO that lifted organic traffic 60%, internal accounting software, 7-server Grafana fleet.

    May 2020 — Feb 2022
    • Vue
    • React
    • Next.js
    • Quasar
    • Laravel
    • PHP
    • Node.js
    • Postgres
    • MySQL
    • Socket.io
    • Docker
    • Grafana
    • Prometheus
    • SEO
  8. 08
    2020
    2021

    820 Taxi & Courier

    Full-Stack Developer

    Ride-sharing with Rust microservices for hot paths. Custom OSRM + Nominatim to escape Google Maps pricing. Redis-backed queues, GPS, route optimization.

    Nov 2020 — Jun 2021
    • Laravel
    • PHP
    • Node.js
    • Rust
    • Postgres
    • MySQL
    • Redis
    • Socket.io
    • Firebase
    • Docker
    • NGINX
    • OSRM
    • Nominatim
    • Grafana
    • Prometheus

Section V

Toolbelt.

Listed by frequency of use, not by hype. Comfortable boring choices, still curious about the new ones.

Languages

01 / 07
  • TypeScript/
  • JavaScript/
  • Python/
  • PHP/
  • Rust

Frontend

02 / 07
  • React/
  • Next.js/
  • Vue/
  • Tailwind/
  • shadcn/ui/
  • Zustand

Backend

03 / 07
  • NestJS/
  • Node.js/
  • FastAPI/
  • Laravel/
  • Express

Data

04 / 07
  • Postgres/
  • Redis/
  • MySQL/
  • Mongo/
  • Qdrant/
  • Supabase/
  • Prisma

AI / LLM

05 / 07
  • OpenAI/
  • Gemini/
  • Ollama/
  • Langchain/
  • RAG/
  • Multi-agent/
  • Whispercpp

Realtime

06 / 07
  • Socket.io/
  • WebSockets/
  • WebRTC

Infra

07 / 07
  • Docker/
  • Kubernetes/
  • NGINX/
  • Grafana/
  • Prometheus/
  • PM2/
  • Hetzner/
  • AWS/
  • GCP

Section VI — open the line

Send a wire.

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