# Denis Orlov Fractional CTO & Engineering Lead · Remote B2B · Part-time or full-time - Email: [freshcrowd@gmail.com](mailto:freshcrowd@gmail.com) - Location: Remote · GMT+3 - Website: [orlov.pw](https://orlov.pw/) - LinkedIn: [orlov-denis](https://linkedin.com/in/orlov-denis) - Telegram: [Cr0WD](https://t.me/Cr0WD) # Summary Hands-on fractional CTO and engineering lead for product architecture, technical delivery, cloud infrastructure and team standards. Covers the path from product decisions to production operation without stepping away from the code. *"Denis is an incredibly talented developer, who's been leading our platform development and been a big part of our success."* — [Samuel Huber](https://www.linkedin.com/in/samhuber/), founder of Landvault # Experience ## FreakoutAI Mar 2025 – present **CTO & Founder** United Kingdom · Remote Built the product end to end, AI 3D generation and immersive showrooms for e-commerce: the architecture, the interface, and everything underneath both. - Company award: [Digital StartUp of the Year (South West), UK StartUp Awards 2026, from 2,000+ entrants across 22 categories](https://freakout.ai/news/freakoutai-wins-digital-startup-of-the-year-at-the-uk-startup-awards-southwest). - Introduced document-driven development, backed by automated checks, and wrote the standards the repositories run on. - Built the agent stack the product runs on: a supervisor that routes model calls, a guardrail classifier, and a runtime intent fallback. - Run the production and staging platform on AWS: containers, edge, storage, queues, mail, monitoring and secrets. - Built the paid side of the product: subscription plans, credit packs, entitlements, and the ledger underneath them. - Documented the AI system inventory, risk classifications, provider evidence and open control gaps for EU AI Act readiness. - Developed a Three.js WebXR runtime with headset entry, controller input, teleportation, collision and safe spawn. - Live on the Shopify App Store since January 2026. ## Infinite Reality (formerly Landvault) Dec 2023 – Mar 2025 **Principal Engineer** Contract · London · Remote Led architecture and front-end development for the platform, across 15+ AI and Web3 projects. - Mentored a team of 10 engineers, and set the code standards and the review process they worked to. - Owned the release pipeline and platform stability. - Set the Next.js architecture and the conventions the codebase was held to. - Stayed in the Principal role through [Infinite Reality's US$450M all-stock acquisition of Landvault](https://tech.eu/2024/07/09/infinite-reality-acquires-uks-landvault-in-450m-deal-to-boost-immersive-tech/). - *"His deep understanding of modern web technologies, performance optimization, and best practices made a significant impact on our projects."* — [Marcin Gierlak](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcingierlak/), VP of AI & Engineering, direct manager ## Landvault July 2022 – Dec 2023 **Senior Frontend Developer** Contract · London · Remote Front-end delivery on the platform as the product moved from advertising into immersive 3D and Web3 experiences. - Built and owned the shared component library the rest of the team built on. - Led delivery of browser-based metaverse projects. ## Admix (merged into Landvault) Dec 2021 – July 2022 **Senior Frontend Developer** Contract · London · Remote Front-end for the advertising platform, on the admin and internal side. - Owned the admin surface and the internal tooling the rest of the team worked in. - Built the platform's Web3 integrations. - Carried the work through the merger into Landvault. ## TrueCare24 Dec 2018 – July 2022 **Lead Full Stack Developer** Contract · San Francisco · Remote Led development of telehealth tools through the pandemic, including a digital vaccination passport and regional registration systems. - Owned technical delivery and deployments across a fully remote team. - Built to HIPAA requirements for handling patient data. - Established the coding standards and the automated test suite, and mentored the developers working to them. - Ran hiring and onboarding on the engineering side. ## Universal Technical Systems Dec 2015 – Nov 2018 **Director of Front-End Engineering** Full-time · Remote Led front-end engineering for national-scale vehicle inspection and diagnostics platforms across Russia and the CIS. - Built the inspection system adopted by 500+ service centres. - Delivered a document and payment management system used in 200+ facilities. - Set the front-end architecture the team worked to. ## Freelance July 2013 – Dec 2018 **Full-Stack Engineer** Self-employed · Remote Independent practice, several clients at a time, alongside an in-house engineering lead role. - Delivered 50+ full-cycle projects, from first commit to production. - Built sites for World of Tanks, Sokolov Jewelry, Moscow State University and Russian Railways. - Built regional medical appointment booking platforms used across Russia. - Modernised legacy codebases and kept them running. # Skills **Architecture**: Design systems, component libraries, release pipelines, front-end performance, technical leadership, mentoring **Cloud & delivery**: AWS ECS Fargate, ALB, CloudFront, S3, Route 53, ACM, WAF, SES, SQS, EventBridge, CloudWatch, ECR, Parameter Store, Docker, Turborepo, Vercel, GitHub Actions **AI**: LLM integration, agent orchestration, supervisor and guardrail patterns, content provenance, C2PA, EU AI Act readiness **Core**: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js App Router, SSR, Node.js, Express **Backend & data**: REST, GraphQL, Prisma, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, WebSockets **Commerce**: Stripe, Shopify App and Billing **Front-end**: Tailwind CSS, Material UI, HeroUI, styled-components, Jotai, SWR, Framer Motion, PWA **3D, XR & Web3**: Three.js, WebGL, React Three Fiber, Unity, WebXR, React Three XR, VR headset input, controller input, viem, wagmi, Sign-In with Ethereum **Also**: Python, Figma # Education ## **Adyghe State University**, Specialist Diploma in Applied Mathematics and Informatics — five-year programme -- Maykop, Russia 2010 – 2015 # Languages English — professional working proficiency, used daily at work. Russian — native. # References - [All LinkedIn recommendations](https://www.linkedin.com/in/orlov-denis/details/recommendations/) # Other versions of this resume Same career, same facts, different emphasis. Machine-readable index: [llms.txt](https://orlov.pw/llms.txt) · [JSON](https://orlov.pw/resume-fractional-cto.json) - [General](https://orlov.pw/resume.md) — Start here. The broadest account: product architecture, production engineering, AWS and front-end leadership. - [Full Stack Lead](https://orlov.pw/resume-full-stack-lead.md) — Take this one for React applications, Node.js services, data and AWS delivery, led rather than only written. - [AI Full-Stack](https://orlov.pw/resume-ai-full-stack.md) — Take this one for AI products built end to end: agent systems on top of full-stack product engineering, AWS and technical leadership. - [AI Product](https://orlov.pw/resume-ai-product.md) — Take this one for LLM orchestration, agent systems, 3D generation and AI features that ship inside a product. - [Fractional CTO](https://orlov.pw/resume-fractional-cto.md) **(this one)** — Take this one for product architecture, technical delivery, cloud infrastructure and engineering standards, part-time. - [Frontend Platform](https://orlov.pw/resume-frontend-platform.md) — Take this one for React platforms, design systems, browser architecture, performance and release infrastructure.