Danil Minkin

AI / PRODUCT LEAD · ST. PETERSBURG · REMOTE

I ship AI products — from idea to a running MVP.

I own AI and EdTech products end‑to‑end: research, positioning, user flows, architecture and specs — then I orchestrate AI agents and contractors, test, ship and iterate. I speak business in outcomes, engineering in architecture, and users in plain language.

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01 Selected work

Products, not slides.

Real repositories, real deploys. Status is stated honestly — MVPs are labelled as MVPs.

MVP in production Founder · Product owner · Tech lead

AikyaMind

A Telegram AI‑mentor with a web funnel: multi‑level memory (RAG + pgvector), voice, personalized daily scenarios, psychological tests, scheduler, subscriptions and full user‑data control. I designed the product, the architecture and an AI‑agent development system (roles, roadmap, backlog, written specs, reviews, runbooks) and ran the first testing wave.

  • 1,312 tests passing
  • 247 backend commits
  • 134 web commits
  • ~5 first testers
  • Python
  • aiogram
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • Alembic
  • Docker
  • Claude
  • Whisper
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
Live platform Repo owner · Tech lead

Dvoechka

A full mini‑CRM for running school tests: regular and live sessions with a shared server timer, guest student entry, client + server autosave, anti‑cheat (copy/paste, tab‑switch, focus and DevTools detection), full session recording, quizzes with AI‑assisted generation and answer checking, and Telegram‑bot sync for teacher reports.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Supabase
  • Edge Functions
  • RLS
  • rrweb
  • Telegram Bot API
LegalTech · shipped AI-assisted builder · Frontend

Legal Client Flow

A privacy‑first mini‑CRM for a lawyer, built fast. The focus wasn't CRUD — it was a real privacy/security layer: name/phone masking, click‑to‑reveal PII, copy guard, session‑only storage, explicit consent for external notifications and security headers. Plus webhook + Telegram automations. The same pattern — data masking, tiered access, audit-friendly logging — scales to business tools that need different security perimeters for different roles.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Vite
  • Netlify
  • Telegram Bot API
  • CSP
EdTech · running Author · Instructor

6‑month AI program · Academy TOP

A full educational product for adults — 192 academic hours, up to 30 participants. From research and course architecture to materials, practice, launch and feedback iterations. Covers LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, YandexGPT, GigaChat), n8n, local models, privacy, RAG and business automation, with ~15 applied mini‑projects.

  • Curriculum design
  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • n8n
  • Automation
  • Adult learning
Marketing · project Product & marketing design

PMD Stone

Designed a digital sales funnel: audience segmentation, competitive analysis, site audit, landing prototype, media plan, Yandex Direct & Avito channels, offers and an analytics loop — packaged as audit → launch → analytics → scale. Financial targets in the deck are goals, not achieved results.

  • Positioning
  • Funnels
  • Landing pages
  • Yandex Direct
  • Analytics
Enterprise AI · confidential client AI workflow architect

Dual‑loop AI for a manufacturing plant

The client needed AI‑generated part instructions and reports, but part data could not leave the internal network. I designed a two‑loop architecture: an internal loop anonymizes real part data and generates randomized substitute data locally; an external loop runs the heavy AI models on that anonymized data; results then flow back into the internal loop, where the substitute values are swapped back for the real ones. The same pattern was used for report generation. No confidential part data ever reached an external AI provider.

  • Data anonymization
  • Dual-network architecture
  • LLM orchestration
  • Technical docs
Open core + working platform Architect & developer · AI-assisted

Airlock: a private AI loop for documents

An open, testable version of the pattern from the confidential plant case above — plus the platform around it. The core (PII Airlock, open source): a local gateway finds sensitive values (deterministic rules + a local LLM), replaces them with opaque placeholders, calls the cloud only after a human confirms, and restores the real values locally. I measured what the AI actually adds: rules alone find 56% of the values, the union of two local models finds 92%. The platform (pilot-ready): an employee uploads a PDF, a scan, a DOCX or an XLSX, asks a question in plain language and gets an answer with links to the source fragments — behind a shared office password, with a warning if the same content was already uploaded under a different name. Under the hood: OCR, vector search with cross-encoder reranking on top, a local model, centralized logs and metrics, automated backups — all inside isolated Docker networks, with nothing leaving the machine by default. An ingested document is treated as data, never as commands: instructions hidden inside a file are executed neither by the model nor by the interface.

Airlock interface: a question about a document, the answer and its source list
An answer over uploaded documents with source references. Documents are synthetic.
  • 214 tests in CI (core + platform)
  • 92% recall (model ensemble)
  • 13 services in the loop
  • 0 external calls by default
  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • Docker Compose
  • Qdrant
  • Ollama
  • Tesseract OCR
  • RAG
  • Reranking
  • Local LLMs
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Loki
  • GitHub Actions
  • pytest
Enterprise AI · confidential client AI workflow architect

Supplier search & procurement automation

For a tender/procurement team: AI searches for suppliers, fills a standardized template table and sorts it, with a manager doing a final manual check before it goes to leadership.

  • faster turnaround
  • 3–7 → 1–3 days per procurement table + report
  • Supplier search
  • Data structuring
  • Workflow automation
  • Human-in-the-loop QA
Prototypes AI-assisted builds

Fast prototypes

LifeBot — a Telegram state tracker with Whisper transcription, Claude follow‑up questions and weekly summaries. PresentBot AI — Streamlit + YandexGPT: PDF/DOCX/TXT → structured, branded PPTX. Vibecoder test — three responsive landing screens with a working form in ~2 hours.

  • Streamlit
  • YandexGPT
  • Whisper
  • HTML/CSS/JS
  • Netlify Forms

02 How I run development

I orchestrate AI agents like a team.

I don't claim a staffed engineering department — I direct AI agents and contractors, understand the code, data and infra, and own requirements, priorities and acceptance.

  1. 1

    Turn a business idea into a user problem and clear success criteria.

  2. 2

    Break the product into flows, interfaces and verifiable tasks.

  3. 3

    Pick the executor — AI agent, contractor or my own hands.

  4. 4

    Accept work through tests, scenarios, code review and user checks.

  5. 5

    Record decisions in docs, roadmap and runbooks.

  6. 6

    Ship a small version, gather feedback, re‑prioritize.

03 Stack & competencies

Product sense with real technical depth.

Product & management

  • Discovery
  • JTBD
  • MVP
  • Roadmap
  • Backlog
  • Specs
  • Prioritization
  • Acceptance criteria

AI

  • LLMs
  • AI agents
  • RAG
  • Embeddings
  • System prompts
  • Response evaluation
  • Local models

Engineering

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • aiogram
  • PostgreSQL
  • pgvector
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
  • Docker
  • Git

Automation

  • n8n
  • Telegram Bot API
  • Webhooks
  • API integrations

EdTech

  • Curriculum design
  • Adult & teen learning
  • Project-based
  • Gamification
  • Feedback loops

Marketing

  • Audience research
  • Positioning
  • Offers
  • Landing pages
  • Yandex Direct
  • UTM analytics

04 Experience

  • Aug 2020 — now

    Academy TOP — AI/IT instructor & program author

    Design and run hands-on AI programs; teach adults and teens LLMs, automation, Python, Unity, web and sysadmin. Teaching since 2019.

  • 2024 — now

    AikyaMind & own AI products — Founder / PO / Tech lead

    Discovery, positioning, roadmap; decompose tasks and coordinate AI agents & specialists; own backend, web, DB, testing, security, legal and deploy.

  • 2019 — now

    Digital & marketing — project work

    Audience research, offer packaging, landings, quizzes and funnels; Yandex Direct, Avito, UTM; AI-assisted prototyping.

  • 2018 — 2022

    Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

    Applied Mechanics.

05 First 90 days

What I'd do in a new role:

  • Audit processes and build an AI-opportunity register scored by impact, risk and effort.
  • Pick 2–3 short pilots: knowledge base, document assistant, learning-material generator or support automation.
  • Define user scenarios, architectural limits, quality criteria and data rules.
  • Run delivery through backlog, short iterations, tests and user demos.
  • Prepare docs & staff training, gather feedback, decide what to scale.

Target roles AI / Product Lead · AI Project Manager · Head of AI adoption · AI platform / EdTech product owner

06 Contact

Danil Minkin

Let's build something
worth shipping.

Open to full-time remote roles in AI & EdTech.