Anton Rybalko

Senior Software Engineer with 20+ years of experience building SaaS products in e-commerce, WordPress security, AI-powered applications, and industrial IoT. I enjoy taking products from idea to production, working closely with product managers, designers, and engineers along the way. Strong backend engineering background with experience in distributed systems, integrations, databases, and cloud infrastructure.

Led development of production systems serving 30k+ protected WordPress sites, 100k+ daily ecommerce visitors, and real-time monitoring platforms processing 2,000+ signals/sec. I use Claude Code and build small AI tools for everyday engineering work.

Senior Software Engineer → Team Lead at WebPros (2022-10 – Present)

global leader in web hosting automation software

• Led the development of a WordPress security SaaS solution from MVP to commercial launch, protecting 30k+ WordPress sites daily.
• Designed and led development of an AI-powered WordPress site generation flow, including LLM orchestration, tool calls, prompt engineering, and WordPress automation.
• Designed and launched product integration for the DigitalOcean Marketplace (OAuth, vendor API).
• Led and implemented payment system integration for subscription purchases and upgrades.

Backend Team Lead at GlassesUSA.com (2022-02 – 2022-10)

the largest online eyewear retailer in the US

• Led a team of 5–6 backend engineers working on microservices for a high-traffic e-commerce platform with 100K+ daily visitors.
• Built the backend side of marketing, data, analytics, and conversion tracking integrations: Cordial, BigQuery, Facebook, TikTok, and Google Ads APIs.

Senior Software Engineer → Team Lead at SibProjectAutomation (2016-10 – 2022-02)

industrial automation and real-time monitoring

• Designed and built a SaaS platform for real-time monitoring and analysis of oil field production and vehicle tracking, processing 2,000+ signals/sec.
• Made charts load fast even on a ~500GB MySQL database by using partitioned storage and query optimization.
• Built and led a small engineering team of 4–5 people, covering development, DevOps, support, and documentation.

Full Stack Developer at IT-UK.RU (2016-04 – 2016-10)

SaaS platform for the housing and utilities sector

• Developed new SaaS features and services using PHP (Yii2), PostgreSQL, JavaScript.

Co-founder / Full Stack Developer at Sugar (2013-06 – 2016-04)

web agency

• Designed, prototyped, and implemented web applications using PHP (Yii2), MySQL, Redis, and JavaScript.
• Responsible for project estimation, contracting, and client communication.

Software Engineer → Team Lead at Tigress Ltd (2005-05 – 2013-06)

UK-based oil and gas software company

• Built software solutions for oil exploration and production using C/C++ and Oracle. Led a small team of 3–4 developers.

Software Engineer Intern at Infotech (2004-08 – 2005-05)

local ERP system

Master's Degree in Computer Science – Tyumen State Oil and Gas University (2005)