Senior backend engineer · Southeast Asia

Nine years of high-load backends at Google, VK, Yandex. Now I build things that ship, from Southeast Asia.

After hours: rap, stand-up, handpan.

Nikita Gorokhov — a full-figure die-cut sticker portrait, long hair, mid-smile.

Selected work

Six things built since 2021.
This is the work.

01 — FlexQ · 2026—now

FlexQ

Interview prep and real-time help on the call itself — the line arrives before the silence does.

hears the roomreads your storywhispers the line

Live · paying customers 6 call modes · EN+RU · macOS
flexq.app practice arena — mock interviews that push back
ElectronReactDeepgramGemini
A video interview at night, FlexQ's hint card glowing beside the call.
FlexQ live overlay: an interview question transcribed, a ready-to-say whisper answer glowing below.
An ornate engraved gold coin with hidden circuit-board etching, lit dramatically on black.
Fairground leaderboard: net P&L standings, every result derived on-chain from a VRF beacon.
Fairground coinflip on Algorand mainnet: provably-fair VRF, a heads/tails bet in progress.
Fairground on-chain proof receipt with the VRF round and beacon.

02 — Fairground · 2026

Fairground

Provably-fair games on Algorand mainnet. Every coinflip resolves from the chain's own randomness beacon. Every result is a proof.

fairground.quest
AlgorandVRFNext.js

03 — Cometa · 2021—

Cometa

Algorand DeFi platform: staking, DEX aggregation, and a collection of 3D NFTs for the metaverse. Built it end-to-end and led a team of 10.

3Products (staking, DEX, NFTs)
10People led
app.cometa.farm
PythonPyTealSolidity
A comet streaking over a dark farmhouse and moonlit crop rows — Cometa brand artwork.
Cometa app: farm dashboard with wallet-connect and staking pools.
Cometa optimal swap: routing META to ALGO through Folks Router with price impact and slippage.
Cometa farm on mobile: live and ended farm pools with TVL, APR and rewards.
A Metapunk NFT bust: a neon-orange 3D character with green dreadlocks and headphones.
A full-body 3D Metapunk NFT render: red hoodie, teal hood, purple crocs — built for the metaverse.
The Cometa team in branded tees at Algorand Decipher.
A noir evidence wall of charts, stamps and red string under a desk lamp.
Agent Beefer on X: an autonomous AI that reads wallets, timelines and disclosures, and roasts them.
The $BEEF live activity feed: research, verdicts and roast tweets streaming in real time.
Most Roasted leaderboard — top 10 most audited targets, scores and roast counts.

04 — $BEEF · 2025

$BEEF

An autonomous Twitter agent that roasts crypto projects on demand. Three parallel LLM pipelines, a five-judge ranking system, and burn-to-roast: burning $BEEF is what buys the roast. On the Base blockchain.

0xbeef.wtf
TypeScriptLLM pipelinesBase

More ships — 05 / 06

05
A cut geode with four glowing amber layers — memory in strata.

mnemon

AI agents that remember you between sessions. One local SQLite file, four typed memory layers, nothing sent to the cloud. Open-source, on npm.

github.com/nikitacometa/mnemon-mcp
TypeScript · SQLite · MCP
06
Circuit-board paper airplane flying out of an open glowing book, scattering pages.

XDAO Bot

One of the first RAG bots. Shipped weeks after GPT-4 launched. Built, deployed, sold for $7K.

Sold · 2023

Career, in numbers

9Years of high-load backends
500M+Users — VK recsys
48Days of silence
Google2017, 2018SRE / SWE intern — Dublin & Zurich
VK2017–2019Engineer — C/C++ recsys
Assaia2019Engineer
Yandex2019–2020Engineer
the_covert2020–2021Team lead
MetaLabs (Cometa)2021—nowEngineer
V-Boost2025—nowLead backend
FlexQ2026—nowEngineer

Off the clock

Ten years writing rap — an EP and singles on Spotify, freestyle on stage. I run my own stand-up nights too. Handpan, drums, and DJ sets on the side.

Six Vipassana retreats — no talking, no eye contact, no phone.

Nikita performing with a microphone on stage in a robe, purple stage haze.
Rap — freestyle performance, Bangkok
Nikita on stage doing stand-up, mic in hand, open shirt, barefoot, red stage curtain behind.
Stand-up — Koh Phangan
Nikita in prayer, eyes closed, mala beads over a dark robe, before a stone temple shrine.
Meditating — Bali
Nikita playing the handpan in a night garden strung with fairy lights.
Handpan — night garden, Vietnam

«Программист, который медитирует? Медитатор, который пишет код?»

Аватар канала — комета-рэпер с микрофоном. Никита ☄️ AI, СДВГ, Медитация телеграм-канал — пишу по-русски t.me/cometablog

Get in touch

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Writing

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