Built so you can actually use it. Onboarding included.
Born in Moscow, raised in New York City, home in Leipzig since 2003. Each of these cities speaks its own language. Not just Russian, English, German: its own way of living, working, yearning. Start over three times and you learn to listen until you hear more than what's being said. Maybe that's why I build systems that adapt to people instead of the other way around. I know what it's like to be the one who has to adapt.
Over the years that turned into a craft. I can see where the work snags inside a business, whatever the field. Good work deserves tools that keep up. So I build them.
For three years I have worked deeply with AI: testing, coding, building, refining. What comes out is not a system off the shelf, but one that adapts to your business, to almost any workflow and almost any request. One builder, end to end — from the architecture down into daily operation.
In doing so, I hear the difference between what someone orders and what they actually need. I keep the whole picture in view, not just the single job.
Since I was eighteen I have worked for more than thirty companies and agencies. Most of it was IT. Far from all of it: fraud prevention at a bank, fault reporting in telecommunications, IT coordination and server repair, a look inside wealth advisory. Then interpreting and translation, merchandising, and exhibition fitting, shop fitting and furniture making.
I am grateful for every one of those places. Each taught me something I pass on today.
The hardest part was the shift from solving my own problems to solving other people's. Without theirs, I would never have solved my own. That is exactly what I keep doing with antomata. Now for others.
Three of them are open on the table.
Brand architecture and full-stack build for a wedding photographer with a DACH clientele and a base in Spain. Next.js 16, native internationalisation in four languages, 28 static pages, Lighthouse performance a straight 100 throughout. Brand register: cinematic editorial typography on an image-led layout system. The groundwork for repositioning the offer from €1,500 to as much as €3,500, carried by editorial depth and stack discipline. The pricing decision is his.
Brand presence and multi-locale build for a Georgian family winery. Founded in 1991, 25 qvevri at 850 metres of elevation in Nigazeuli, a UNESCO-recognised tradition since 2013. 96 static pages, six languages including Georgian (Mkhedruli) and Russian. Editorial architecture as a translation between qvevri tradition and the Western online buyer, with the technical execution out of Leipzig. My first international commission.
Brand presence and a multilingual full-stack build for an independent real-estate agent in greater Valencia (the Corredor del Túria). Astro on the Cloudflare edge, 76 static pages, five languages. Rebuilt mobile-first: load time more than halved (LCP −53%, Lighthouse mobile 74 → 91).
At SafeRoad VR GmbH I am co-founder and CTO. We build a VR safety-training platform for regulated industries across the DACH region. The technology has been my responsibility from day one: architecture, stack, hosting, and the AI components. Data protection is built into the architecture there.
What takes shape there is not tied to VR: AI agents that steer one another, and workflows that keep running on their own. The same way of building fits very different businesses.
That is exactly what antomata is for. Here I carry the same responsibility: what I build for my own ventures, I build for clients.
When generative AI became broadly available to end users in 2023, I did not pick up the off-the-shelf workflow. I wired my own pipelines, tested EU-hosted components, deliberately triggered failure modes in production-adjacent scenarios. Not because a new career was planned, but because I cannot think any other way.
What came out of it is a working set of tools that any business handling sensitive data can take on today, whatever the field: set up on European servers, with a signed data processing agreement and clear documentation of who processes the data.
antomata is the brand under which I make that working set available to clients.
Clarity here is worth more than advertising.
I am not a lawyer and I give no legal advice. I set up the technology so that data protection holds from the start, and I keep every decision on record and traceable. The legal assessment in any individual case stays with a lawyer.
No high-risk mandates under EU AI Act Annex III (e.g. third-party CV screening, employee monitoring, behavioural scoring) as long as no conformity-assessment procedure is in place.
Where your data sits is written into the contract. No AI feature in someone else's software before I know where your data goes. Claude runs through AWS Bedrock in EU regions and under a data-protection contract, never raw from the US. Every provider that processes data is named in the agreement.
I tune every configuration to three references: to me as the operator, to the project, and to the client. Only once it fits all three does it leave the atelier.
What I hand over belongs to you, from the day of handover on: code, architecture, training material.
Alone, but not without apparatus: a configured set of tools that works at every handover.
Book one or both. Each track stands on its own. No bundle requirement, no subscription trap.
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AI SystemsGDPR and EU AI Act readiness for businesses that handle sensitive data, in any field. AI Audit €500 (credited in full) · Reports €2,000 · +AI Tools €4,000 · +Chatbot €6,500. First call available now. More →
I have played the saxophone for more than twenty-five years. Languages, systems, music: to me they are of a kind. You learn the form, and then you can play within it.
— Anton Shakin · Leipzig · 2026
