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Serhii Buriak (Seth)Fullstack developerCalgary · remote / NAopen to work

I build small, fast, honest software — mostly with TypeScript and Go.

I'm a fullstack developer who builds small, fast, honest software. Mostly TypeScript and Go, with a soft spot for Postgres, local-first patterns, and dev tools that feel handmade.

I’m a full-cycle developer with 7 years of experience in software development and 5 years in commercial projects.

I build products end to end — from interfaces and frontend architecture to backend systems, infrastructure, deployment, and long-term maintainability. My experience includes both working independently across the full development cycle and collaborating within engineering teams.

My strongest interest is where frontend, backend, and infrastructure meet. I care about quality, long-term maintainability, and building products that are not only functional today, but ready to evolve tomorrow.

Outside of work, I’m into longboarding, coffee, piano, and small engineering experiments with LEGO, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi computers.

frontend
tsreactnexttailwindcss
backend
nodepostgresredisgraphqlrestprisma
infra
dockerawscloudflarelinuxnginx
craft
vimclaudegitagents
2024 — now
Fullstack Engineer, Terrabrief Solutions
Running several company websites. Maintaining and integrating dashboards and internal tools.
remote
2023 — 24
Fullstack Engineer, PathwayPro
Maintained and reworked social-network platform for foreign workers.
Calgary / CAN
2021 — 23
Lead Fullstack Engineer, Glimmity-Buterfly
Developed company website from scratch for inside employees. Onboarded new employees. Became a technical lead. Run the company's dev team.
Poltava / UKR
2020 — 21
Frontend Engineer, Almaz web studio
Build and support company website and landing pages.
remote
2014 - 20
Student and part-time technician, Legion, MTX computers, Kyivstar
Computer Science student and part-time network technician
Donetsk, Kyiv, Poltava

A single-binary streaming SQL engine you can point at a Kafka topic, an HTTP feed, or a file. Pipes-friendly. Used by a few teams to skip 80% of a Flink setup. Open source, Go.

stack
Go · PostgreSQL · Kafka · protobuf
role
Sole author

Notes app built on CRDTs, with end-to-end encryption and direct peer sync. Web + iOS. Currently hovers around 2k MAU; was a #1 launch on Hacker News.

stack
TypeScript · Svelte · Rust (wasm) · Yjs
role
Designer + lead engineer

Short links with a passphrase, one-shot reads, and zero metadata logs. Self-hostable in 30s. Built as a weekend project, now used by ~200 small teams.

stack
Go · Cloudflare Workers · SQLite
role
Sole author

A WASM-based font playground I made for fun and for a magazine commission. Lets you generate variable letterforms shaped like pasta cuts.

stack
Rust (wasm) · Canvas · HarfBuzz
role
Solo experiment

A self-hosted little app that turns your daily quantified-self data (sleep, runs, mood) into a slowly growing tree visualization. Mostly for me; a handful of friends use it.

stack
TypeScript · Astro · D3 · PostgreSQL
role
Solo

Email is the fastest way to reach me. Cold-mail welcome.