Anatoliy Kostyakov

Backend/Agentic Engineer — Node.js / NestJS / AWS

About me

Backend and Agentic Engineer building production services and AI agent systems on Node.js, NestJS and AWS. Design REST/GraphQL APIs, queues and event-driven integrations, deploy them to AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, SQS, RDS, CloudFront) and keep them observable and fail-safe.

Build agentic solutions on top of LLMs with the Mastra framework (TypeScript agents, tools, workflows, memory and evals) and n8n: tool calling and MCP servers, RAG pipelines over vector stores, multi-step and human-in-the-loop agent workflows, plus prompt and cost optimization.

Also a result-oriented fullstack programmer in developing robust, fast and fail-safe web applications written on PHP, Javascript, TypeScript, MySQL. Can solve issues in MySQL and ElasticSearch performance, backend and frontend part like google page speed optimization. Have practice working with Ubuntu Linux.

Have experience in writing Android apps using Kotlin/Java.

Also coming with 8+ years of experience and Specialist’s degree (Ukrainian education) in Information Technology.

Services

Backend Development

Node.js, NestJS, TypeScript, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS, CloudFront), PostgreSQL, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Docker, PHP, Laravel, Codeigniter, Phalcon, Symfony, Linux, Laravel Forge

Agentic & AI Engineering

Mastra framework (TypeScript agents, tools, workflows, memory, evals), n8n automation, AI agents on Node.js/NestJS, LLM tool calling, MCP servers, RAG and vector stores, AWS Bedrock.

Frontend Development

Javascript/Typescript, Vue.js, React.js, React Query.

Mobile Development

Android Kotlin.

Experience

now2019

Backend/Agentic Engineer (Node.js/NestJS/AWS)

make-it.run, Kiev, Ukraine (remotely)

Work as Backend/Agentic Engineer on Node.js/NestJS and AWS, as well as Laravel/Vue.js, Next.js/React.js. Build NestJS services with TypeScript, PostgreSQL/MySQL, Prisma/TypeORM, BullMQ queues and REST/GraphQL APIs, deployed to AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS, CloudFront) with Docker and CI/CD. Build agentic features on top of LLMs with the Mastra framework and n8n: agents with tools, workflows and memory, MCP servers, RAG pipelines over vector stores, multi-step and human-in-the-loop automations. Support 2 projects. Language school and high load project based on Laravel, MySQL, ElasticSearch, Redis, Laravel Horizon Queue, React.js, Next.js. Optimized MySQL queries using indexes, redis queues, redis cache. Implemented optimized ElasticSerach mappings and DSL queries. Optimized queue workers using Laravel Horizon. Also developed mobile application for language school based on Android Kotlin.

20192018

Backend PHP Programmer

CodeID, Odessa, Ukraine

High load projects based on MySQL/Solr/PHP/Zend 1. Supported carid.com, truckid.com, motorcycleid.com, boatid.com, powersportsid.com with inner CRM and admin panel. Optimized MySQL queries with over than 500 million of records.

20182017

Fullstack programmer

medintercom.ru, Moscow, Russia (remotely)

Developed and supported website based on Phalcon 3/jQuery/MySQL/Memcached.

Experience and Education

20172015

Fullstack programmer

mdi-toys.ru, Irkutsk, Russia (remotely)

Developed websites mdi-toys.ru, mdi.com.ua with PHP Bitrix CMS. Developed website lucyandleo.com, lucyandleo.ru on Codeigniter 3. Developed crm.mdi-toys.ru on Codeigniter 3/Vue.js 3.

20152013

Bitrix/Wordpress programmer

Anodin media/Fresh call, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine

Worked as Bitrix/Wordpress CMS programmer. Developed online store good-kvadro.ru with Bitrix CMS and 10 websites using Wordpress CMS.

20132008

Programming Applications of Automated Systems

Kriviy Rig National University, Krivoy Rog, Ukraine

Learnt Delphi and C++ programming.

Backend Skills

Node.js

85%

NestJS

80%

AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS)

70%

PostgreSQL

60%

Docker

60%

PHP 7/8

80%

Laravel 8/9

70%

MySQL

50%

Redis

50%

Codeigniter 3

50%

Phalcon 3

50%

Symfony 1/2

50%

Zend 1

30%

ElasticSearch

30%

C++

25%

Kotlin

10%

Agentic & AI Skills

Mastra (TypeScript agent framework)

80%

AI agents / MCP servers

75%

RAG / vector stores

70%

n8n workflow automation

80%

Frontend Skills

Javascript

50%

Typescript

50%

React.js

30%

Vue.js

30%

Next.js

20%

NPM/Yarn

20%

HTML/CSS

20%