Turning business vision into systems that scale.
I'm Dzmitry Harupa, Head of Architecture. 17 years of high-load systems, 10 of them in iGaming. I design architecture, take AI/ML to production and still write code myself. TOGAF, SAFe and AWS certified. 100% remote.
Four ways to start.
From a one-off consultation to a fractional CTO role — pick the depth you need now.
Advisory sessions
Architecture reviews and roadmap sessions. One call — specific recommendations.
- Free 30-min intro call
- Deep advisory session (90 min)
- Expert consulting packs
POC & delivery
From concept to a working prototype. Architecture documentation is part of the result.
- POC Starter: scope & architecture
- POC Build: working prototype
- Architecture package with ADRs
Ongoing partnership
Technology leadership part-time: from monthly advisory to a full CTO roadmap.
- Advisor Lite: monthly guidance
- Strategic CTO advisor
- Fractional CTO: full roadmap
Workshops & training
Hands-on workshops for your team: architecture, AI/ML, working with ADRs.
- Architecture workshops
- AI/ML strategy sessions
- Remote & on-site
Strategy through code — one architect, the whole stack.
Enterprise architecture, AI/ML and ten years of iGaming domain knowledge — hands-on, in code.
Technology strategy & roadmap
- IT strategy aligned with business goals
- Product roadmap
- TCO optimization & FinOps
Cloud & enterprise architecture
- AWS, GCP, Kubernetes
- Microservices & event-driven design
- TOGAF enterprise architecture
AI/ML strategy & implementation
- AWS Bedrock, SageMaker
- LLM, RAG & AI agents
- AI process automation
High-performance development
- Go, TypeScript, Python, C++
- SAFe & Lean-Agile delivery
- DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
iGaming expertise
- Platform architecture: PAM, payments
- Game math, RNG development
- Regulatory compliance
Documentation & standards
- Architecture Decision Records (ADR)
- Technical specifications
- Team standards & guidelines
Senior expertise without a full-time hire.
Cost effective
Senior-level expertise without a full-time salary and overhead.
Flexible scale
The scope changes with your needs. You pay for hours, not a seat.
Fast start
Hiring a CTO takes months. Here the first call is this week.
Low risk
Start with a free consultation. A retainer comes after you see results.
Hands-on delivery
Working prototypes, executable architectures, code in production.
100% remote
Flexible timezone coverage and async communication.
Outcomes you can measure.
AI call-center automation
>$1.2M saved per year on AWS Bedrock & SageMaker.
NATS event mesh at scale
200K+ msgs/sec across 1000+ systems, <100ms p99 latency.
Monolith → microservices
40% of transactional load migrated; release lead time down 57%, deploys under 15 minutes.
Decisions on data. Results in numbers.
An architect who stays until it ships.
Ten years in iGaming: Casino, Sports, Poker, PAM, payments and CRM. Production AI/ML on AWS Bedrock, SageMaker and LangGraph.
I grew an architecture practice from 6 to 12 architects plus 20 system analysts, mentored three of them to Head-of-Technology roles and led 200+ engineers. I still write production code.
Notes on architecture and AI.
What I work with: architecture, AI/ML, iGaming.
CRM on Markdown, part 2: 27 hours, 23 commits and a catalog of failures
The anatomy of a Markdown CRM built with an AI agent on a live project — told through its failures, because that's where every rule came from. Someone else's words recorded as the owner's voice, a ready-made comment posted under a stranger's post, a user's silence explained by the product while the user was moving house. Three breeds of failure — data, process, interpretation — each with its mechanism and price; four decisions I reversed within hours of making them; and the main lesson of the whole exercise: a rule without a guard does not survive, even for the person who wrote the rule two paragraphs above.
ReadCRM on Markdown, part 1: how to create a CRM in an evening — step by step, with an AI agent that finds leads
A step-by-step guide to a working CRM without a database, SaaS or a single dependency: install Claude Cowork or Claude Code, add the md-crm skill in two commands or one ZIP, connect the Chrome extension — and the agent triages LinkedIn search results you scroll, files contact cards and keeps the board honest. You talk to it in plain words: add a contact, log her reply, what's on fire. Same skeleton runs an ATS for hiring. It ends with the final split — what the agent takes over and what stays human — and a way to reach me if you want it wired to your funnel.
ReadMy Architect, part 11: eight hundred commits I didn't write
Not a demo but a live project — a video pipeline with 802 commits in 78 days, with a front end, a back end, video rendering, Python sidecars and five model vendors, and my_architect holding it all together. Inside: the real numbers from the tracker (650 nodes, 296 requirements, 63 RFCs), how a requirement is wired to a commit and a test through a coverage gate that fails the build, why I draw HTML wireframes before any code, what commit timestamps actually measure in the story of “I hand a task over at night and by morning it's done” — the day has two humps with the night between them, and morning commits are twice the size of daytime ones — and why all of this opens a door for teams instead of closing it.
ReadTell me what you're building.
Describe the problem in a couple of paragraphs — or skip ahead and book a free 30-minute call.
Free 30-min strategy call
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