Senior AI Engineer, Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic), ex-core team Sellify AI (AI sales for pest control) - one customer generated $620k through the platform.

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2 years on the core team at Sellify AI, one of their first technical hires. AI sales agents for pest control companies in the US. Numbers they put out:

• $620k in new sales, 1,100 new accounts - Ninefold
• $1M+ in a single month - HomeTeam, one of the biggest pest control operators in the US
• 769 accounts in a year - Enviroguard, roughly 2x their best human rep

I built the features a couple of their competitors had announced and never shipped, plus the legacy-CRM integration that ended up being the moat.

Past 1.5 years I've been the contract senior AI engineer at a recruitment-AI SaaS. Working directly with the founder, up to 3 AI projects at a time:

• a job-monitoring agent that's live across several recruitment agencies - watches job portals, filters per recruiter, turns postings into structured records, reaches recruiters over WhatsApp with a human in the loop
• a Meta ads agent that builds campaigns from a vacancy description, generates the creatives, and researches competitors through the Ad Library

I wrote the pagination recipe in Logux's official docs, 257 lines, merged by Andrey Sitnik (PostCSS, Autoprefixer, nanoid), along with the example repo it's built on. Also a couple of bigger PRs into logux/server.

I co-maintain mre/vscode-snippet:

• 11 releases published by me, v0.9.2 → v1.2.0
• 144 commits, more than the creator's 131
• 174k installs on the marketplace
• 255 stars, 33 forks

What I shipped there: the Snippets view, CI that auto-publishes to the marketplace, a backup system, and integration tests.

"Vlad has been incredible to work with. Very sharp and understands the intricacies and needs of our company. Have trusted him with important tasks, and he's always been able to get creative and deliver."

Thomas K. Lundberg, Founder & CEO at Sellify AI, co-owner of Fox Pest before its $350M exit to Rollins (LinkedIn)

"I've worked with Vlad for almost 2 years on Sellify AI and he did an outstanding job. Vlad knows his craft well and was able to handle complex engineering tasks independently. He is quick to learn new things and adapts fast when requirements change."

Ivan Nikolaichuk, Co-Founder at Sellify AI (LinkedIn)

"Vlad saw what I was trying to create before I'd even fully explained it. He just got it. If you're looking for someone who understands AI and applies it practically, without wasting time, he's the one."

Ove André Remme, Founder at Terapivakten (full interview)

Top Rated Plus (Top 3%), 100% job success - my profile.

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations - Anthropic, issued 27 July 2026. Credential ID 04ab3a6f-b570-473c-b5eb-ef3b735ac95c.

Anthropic's credential for engineers who architect and ship production systems on Claude. Earned by passing a proctored exam delivered through Pearson VUE. Skills covered:

Large Language Models (LLMs) · Prompt Engineering · AI System Design · Claude Agent SDK · Claude Code configuration · Context Management · Generative AI Architecture · Multi-Agent Orchestration · Production reliability · Structured output · Tool & MCP design

IBM: Generative AI for Business Leaders & Executives, AI Agents Using RAG and LangChain.

• Rebuilding a client's AI agent as a team of agents - over a minute down to ~7 seconds, also stopped the malformed responses
• AI content that scores 0% on detectors - the trick was imitating one specific writer, even in Danish
• A lead finder that reads every Google review - scores each lead and quotes the reviews behind the score
• ChatGPT-style candidate search inside a WordPress site - staffing agency, they use it for lead gen

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I post about production AI on my blog and LinkedIn. Recent stuff: eval sets that catch hallucinations before prod, auditing an AI bill in 30 min, tracing latency that's 3s in the demo and 45s live.

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