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Andrei Rovnyi

Software Developer
Engineering Leader
Founder
Game Systems Architect

I build production-ready web platforms, game systems, automation tools, and AI-assisted workflows — from early product ideas to shipped systems used by real people.

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15+ years in production

Gaijin

Wargaming

Elo.pub

Working together

Services

All services

Work with me directly: mentorship, consulting, or part-time engineering help for your team. Each one starts with a conversation rather than a checkout.

For career switchers & juniors

Mentorship & job placement in IT

To your first IT job offer — paid only after you start working.

Free 1-hour review · 0 upfront · 20% × 6 months after you start

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For game studios & high-load products

Fractional CTO for game studios

Part-time engineering leadership for game studios and high-load products.

Audit $1,500 · Advisory $2,500/mo · Standard $5,000/mo

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For founders & small teams

Product & engineering consulting

A second opinion on the decisions that are expensive to reverse.

First call free · then per call or per written review · reply in 24 h

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For engineering teams

Engineering support for your team

Part-time senior help inside a team that is already shipping.

Monthly, part-time · starts with a call · scope agreed in writing

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Writing

GH Actions: I Moved the GitHub Actions Tab Into WebStorm

A WebStorm plugin for GitHub Actions: runs, logs, re-runs and workflow_dispatch in the IDE. Why Glimtide's CI made me write it, and how it is built.

#glimtide

Nov 1, 2026 Read

Glims of many colours wave goodbye from a tropical beach as a blue glim sets off on a leaf-sail raft toward the sunrise

#games

Glimtide Is Coming to Steam: What Changed in Nine Days

Glimtide, my living-island life sim, now has a Steam page and heads to Early Access in Q1 2027. Why I removed every coin and what the game got since.

#dev #ai #glimtide

Oct 29, 2026 Read

#games

Glimtide: A Living Island in the Browser That Never Stops

My new browser game: one shared island of jelly creatures who think, learn and evolve on their own, and an ECS world that takes new mechanics without a restart.

#dev #ai #glimtide

Oct 20, 2026 Read

Today I Learned

Short notes

All notes

Oct 20, 2026 #Game development #Web developmentHow do I build an ECS where mechanics can be swapped while the game runs?Keep all state in components as plain data and all code in modules that own no state. A snapshot is then just the stores, and swapping a mechanic is just… Read note

Oct 15, 2026 #AI engineering #Web developmentHow to make a narrated explainer video for a side project from one promptMy tool pages explained everything in text, and I wasn't going to record and edit a video for each of them by hand. I used Animator, a Python CLI that turns… Read note

Oct 13, 2026 #AI engineering #Engineering leadershipHow should I organize a Claude project so it stops forgetting context?A Claude project works best when each kind of context has exactly one home. Otherwise you end up explaining the same thing in every chat. How I split it for… Read note

Oct 13, 2026 #AI engineering #Web developmentAsking Claude to "add feature X" gets you X.The loop I use on ravy.pro: Keep a CLAUDE.md in the repo: the architecture, plus the rules that are easy to break (where data lives, what must stay… Read note

Utilities

Tools

All tools

For game devs

Steam AI Disclosure

Answer a short guided wizard about how your game uses AI and get Steam's AI content disclosure filled correctly.

Free check · paid disclosure packStart check

For creators

Contract Red-Flag Scanner

Upload an influencer or brand contract and spot risky clauses — exclusivity traps, payment terms, usage rights — before you sign.

Free risk check · $10 full reportScan a contract

For Windows

XPLOIT Translator

Windows tray app: copy text or a screenshot, press Ctrl+Alt+T, and read it in your language.

Free app · your own OpenAI keyDownload

For Unity devs

XPLOIT Game UI

Unity plugin: build your game's UI in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and render it on the GPU, at zero cost when nothing moves.

Open source · Apache-2.0Get the plugin

Quick utilities

QR Code GeneratorStyled QR codes with a logo, export as PNG.

Credit Card GeneratorLuhn-valid test card numbers for QA.

JWT DecoderDecode and verify JWTs in your browser.

Image ConverterConvert PNG, JPEG and WebP locally.

tabs-broadcastnpm library for messaging between browser tabs.

Suggest a toolTell me what to build. It might ship next. Telegram

Creative work

Games, music & animation

All projects

Game

Tiny Boo: Homecoming

A cozy mobile adventure about a tiny forest creature finding his way home.

iOS · Android Open

AI music

Zynthar

An imagined post-hardcore band. Real emotions.

Post-hardcore · Metalcore Open

AI animation

Tiny Boo Movie

Cozy, wordless adventures of a tiny forest spirit.

YouTube series Open

Something to build, review, or ship?

Tell me what you need and I'll reply within 24 hours — mentorship, consulting, or engineering help for your team.

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Vietnam is wonderful

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