RAG & LLM features
Chat, search, and answer systems grounded in your own content, documents, and product data. Built with retrieval, ranking, prompt design, evaluation, and production safeguards.
OpenAI Anthropic RAG
shipped · Fuzion AI
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Anton Vanyukov · Brisbane, AU
Lead web engineer in Brisbane, Australia.
You hire me.
Not an agency.
Enterprise web platforms, publishing systems, large-scale migrations, and AI-native products. I write the code and own the result, whether that's on your team or on your project.
that's me
hands-on
since-2004
recently shipped
● 2026.05 · Agentic Kanban board ● 2026.02 · Reaktiv / The Code Co ● 2026.02 · Eluxo AI ● 2025.10 · PartyBags.au ● 2025.08 · FacePlus Aesthetics ● 2025.02 · WP Boost MCP server ● 2024.12 · MyOwnCDN ● 2024.12 · Dunera & Queen Mary ● 2023.07 · TechCrunch 15k-video migration ● 2022.09 · SVOMTO ● 2022.08 · Fuzion AI
20+
years of experience
Production web platforms for agencies, product companies, and clients of my own.
Microsoft · Yahoo
official vendor work
WordPress Core
contributor · plugin dev
PMP · Sanity
certified
4.95★
100+ client reviews
$ select path _
Two ways to work with me.
Pick one. The other path stays one click away.
▹ for hiring teams 20 years, hands on.
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/ for hiring teams 05 roles
20 years of production engineering, hands on the whole way.
Download full résumé PDF ↓ (opens in new tab)- 01
Engineering Contractor · The Code Company / Reaktiv
2025 - nowPublishing-platform work for AU and US clients, including MS NOW (subcontracted through Reaktiv) and Memberful. PHP, TypeScript, React, Gutenberg, custom plugins and REST APIs.
- 02
Lead Web Engineer · Fueled / 10up
2022 - 2025Headhunted for enterprise web and large-scale migration, as an approved vendor to both Microsoft and Yahoo. On the teams that built the Microsoft Security, Education and Microsoft Cloud blogs. Built a Microsoft content-automation platform on WordPress and Azure Queues. Led the TechCrunch migration of 15,000+ videos off Yahoo's legacy platform to YouTube. Built WP Boost, a WordPress-aware MCP server.
- 03
Head of Development · WPMU DEV
2019 - 2022Led 25+ engineers and SREs. Cut release cycles from up to 12 months to 4 weeks; built CI/CD with automated testing and security checks; 35% fewer bugs per release, 40% lower tooling cost.
- 04
Lead Developer · WPMU DEV
2017 - 2019Led Smush and Hummingbird: 1M+ and 100K+ active installs, both 5★ on WordPress.org, 65M+ downloads between them. The hands-on product-engineering core of my career.
- 05
Technical specialist → Head of IT
2004 - 2017Started in 2004 at Rambler Telecom, then Diebold. Built my first dev team in 2009. Ran IT departments, $1M+ budgets and ISO 27001 programs before switching back to full-time engineering. Certified: PMP, Sanity Developer, Microsoft Certified Professional.
▹ for clients You hire me. Not an agency.
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/ Why me, not an agency 04 reasons
Four reasons hiring me directly beats going through an agency.
- 01
Staff-level engineering, hands on
src/staff-level.mdI write the code. I run the migrations. I review the PRs. 20+ years of production work for enterprise publishing, headless CMS, custom platforms, and AI products, applied directly to your project.
- 02
PMP-certified delivery
docs/process.mdProject management is part of the deal, not an extra. Clear scope, realistic timelines, and predictable releases. The same delivery discipline I brought to Microsoft and TechCrunch projects.
- 03
Fast cycles, real launches
history/timing.mdAt WPMU DEV I cut release cycles from 12 months to 4 weeks across products used by millions. The same lean approach scales down to a single business website.
- 04
I stay after launch
ops/support.mdI don't disappear. Most clients stay on month-to-month for maintenance, performance work, and small new features. I also take over sites other people built: four dental practices and a DNA lab run on themes I never wrote, and I keep them patched, fast, and growing.
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/ AI built in
AI, built in. Not bolted on.
I have worked with neural networks since my 2010 computing degree. My thesis applied Kohonen networks to vibration diagnostics. So I do not treat AI as a black box or a marketing layer.
Today, I build production AI systems using LLMs, RAG, agents, fine-tuning, automation, and model evaluation. That includes MCP tooling other engineers can build on, content pipelines, product image systems, and AI features that sit inside real products.
Most of the work is knowing where AI fails and building around that, so it can ship inside software people rely on.
AI agents & automation
Agentic workflows that triage, generate, enrich, publish, and act across real systems. Useful where the work has context, rules, tools, and repeatable decisions.
LangGraph LangChain MCP
shipped · Agentic Kanban board
AI image & content
Branded visuals, SEO-aware copy, product imagery, and content workflows at scale. From a source image, structured data, or a brief to usable production assets.
DALL·E Vertex AI Azure AI Vision
shipped · Eluxo AI
Models & fine-tuning
When off-the-shelf models are not enough: custom training, fine-tuning, classification, evaluation, and picking the right model for the job.
PyTorch HuggingFace fastai
shipped · Eluxo AI · model training
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/ Recent work 7 of 60+
Shipped, and kept running.
~/maintained
Sites other people built that I now keep running: updates, hosting, performance, and the next feature on the list.
- Dental99 (opens in new tab) dental99.com.au · fixed-price dental · Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane
- Sydney Implant Institute (opens in new tab) sydneyimplantinstitute.com.au · implant and oral-surgery clinic
- Dental99 Implant Institute (opens in new tab) dental99implantinstitute.com.au · implant practice · Sydney, Brisbane
- Dental Lounge (opens in new tab) dentallounge.com.au · dental clinic · Double Bay, Sydney CBD
- DNA Solutions (opens in new tab) dnasolutions.com.au · DNA testing lab · WooCommerce
~/team-builds
Enterprise sites where I was one engineer on a larger team. Through 10up / Fueled I was an approved vendor to both Microsoft and Yahoo.
- MS NOW (opens in new tab) ms.now · subcontracted through Reaktiv · 2025 to now
- Microsoft Security Blog (opens in new tab) microsoft.com/security/blog · with 10up / Fueled
- Microsoft Education Blog (opens in new tab) microsoft.com/education/blog · with 10up / Fueled
- Microsoft Cloud Blog (opens in new tab) microsoft.com/microsoft-cloud/blog · with 10up / Fueled
- TechCrunch (opens in new tab) techcrunch.com · with 10up / Fueled · 15,000-video migration off Yahoo's platform
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/ Stack 06 tools
WordPress by default. Not always.
WordPress is the default. It is flexible, well supported, and clients can run it themselves. For speed or custom logic I reach for Astro, Laravel, or a headless CMS like Sanity, where I have been certified since 2025. Cloudflare for performance and edge. AI only where it pays for itself: LLM features, RAG, and fine-tuned models wired into the stack.
AI
AI
LLM · RAG · MCP
OpenAI, Anthropic, PyTorch, HuggingFace
default
WordPress
default · CMS
65M+ downloads led at WPMU DEV
Astro
static · headless
content sites · speed
Laravel
custom · app
real business logic
Sanity
headless · CMS
certified developer (2025)
Cloudflare
edge · perf
workers · images · CDN
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/ Reviews 4.95 avg · 100+
"Anton has proven himself to be reliable and exceedingly helpful. He completely redesigned our out-of-date website thoughtfully, and was even able to help us with logo design. Communicative and open to feedback. Couldn't recommend him more."
"An outstanding experience with creating and managing a business website. Highly recommending Anton."
"Anton went above and beyond on this project, he was outstanding. I will definitely use him again in the future when I need his help."
Let's talk.
Hiring for a senior or lead role, or need a site built, rebuilt or taken over? Either way, start here. Fastest reply by email.
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