
Andrei Gusev
Tech Lead / Software Architect
Architecture · Team leadership · Delivery · AI strategy
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
15+ years building for the web: high-tech startups, landing pages carried by heavy animation and visual work, and corporate portals where speed and security come first. I have led a front-end team, mentored juniors, and hired and onboarded the first engineer of my own company — and I still write code every week. I set the architecture and conventions of a multi-product codebase, plan what gets built and in what order, and pay down technical debt while it is still cheap: I carried a live product from Vue 2 to Vue 3 without stopping feature work. I can deliver a project from scratch, and I can take over someone else's legacy code — including migrations across major framework versions. Hands-on throughout: Vue / Nuxt and React / Next.js on the front end, Node.js and MongoDB on the back, with 5+ years of Python, PHP, PostgreSQL and MySQL behind that, plus the DevOps and CI/CD side of a project. Recent years have been mostly AI: agents, MCP servers, search and recommendation systems built into products people use.
- 15+Years of work experience
- 95+Lighthouse on delivered sites
- 3+ yrsAverage tenure per employer
Core Skills
Frontend
Backend
Data & Infra
AI
Products
Menumiru
AI food assistantAn AI food assistant for exploring Japan. Snap any menu for an instant translation, discover restaurants matched to your taste, and chat about dishes, allergens and pairings.
Memocore
AI memory layerOne shared memory for every AI client. Save context once and Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and any MCP-capable tool can recall it across chats, IDEs and teams. Available as a product and as an API.
Ancore
Open sourceA production-ready Nuxt module that cuts setup and configuration time: form validation, server-state management, dialog system, internationalisation and a library of UI components. The base of every project we start.
Experience
Founder & Developer
Jun 2024 — PresentAn Co., Ltd. (Tokyo) · Ancodium Corp. (USA) · Tokyo, Japan
I run a software studio building websites, web and mobile apps and AI-powered products — both for clients and as our own products. From a quick MVP to a production product.
- Own architecture, delivery, infrastructure and hiring across both companies.
- Responsible for the studio's own products end to end: Menumiru, an AI food assistant for travellers in Japan covering nearly 3,000 restaurants, shipped across web, iOS and Android; and Memocore, a shared memory layer for AI agents over MCP that keeps context across every tool.
- Set the shared foundation every project starts from — Ancore, an open-source Nuxt module with 12k+ downloads on npm.
- Delivered 12+ client projects end to end — websites and platforms, mobile apps, and AI built into real business workflows.
- Built a screen-reference catalogue of 66k+ references from scratch; it reached profitability on subscriptions, and AI integrations cut digitising a single app from a week to a few hours.
- Built an auto-auction portal for ordering cars straight from Japanese auctions — around 1,000 vehicle orders placed by customers across several countries.
Senior Full-Stack Developer
Feb 2022 — PresentThe Doers Company / Anymaster · Remote · Cyprus
Core developer across all products. Each was built from the ground up, with the stack chosen to fit the job. Products: A no-code platform for building chatbots, with a complex pipeline system, a RAG knowledge base, third-party integrations and deployment across multiple channels. A high-load event platform with AI-driven matching between attendees. A home services marketplace in Cyprus.
- Owned the architecture
- Built every core system across the projects
- Introduced AI and automation
- Pixel-perfect implementation of designs
- Full responsibility for the front end
- SEO optimization
Senior Frontend Developer → Team Lead
Apr 2017 — Mar 2022Heyling · Remote · Russia
A management and recruitment platform, with several internal products built around it. Joined as a front-end developer and grew into leading the front-end team.
- Built the web application from scratch and owned it as the product grew.
- Built the desktop client on Electron, and the browser extension alongside it.
- Led the front-end team and was responsible for what it shipped.
- Drove the migration of the whole product from Vue 2 to Vue 3.
- Built the in-house pieces the product ran on — its own charting library, video and survey modules.
Full-Stack Developer
May 2015 — Apr 2017Tensor · Saint Petersburg, Russia
An electronic document management platform used by businesses across the country.
- Worked both sides of the stack — UI components in JavaScript, business logic in Python.
- Responsible for the PostgreSQL layer: schema design and query performance.
- Mentored junior developers on the team.
Developer
2010 — 2015Freelance · Remote
Websites and web apps for clients — hotel sites, online stores and the largest loyalty-card platform in the city — alongside my own projects and apps for the VK network.
- Took every project end to end, from the first line of markup to the server it ran on.
- Built and launched TopBloggers, an app that passed 100k installs.
- Took prize places at hackathons with my own projects.
Education
Bachelor's in Information Technology
2010 — 2014Kurgan Institute of Railway Transport · Russia
Languages
- RussianNative
- EnglishProfessional working proficiency
- JapaneseLimited working proficiency