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Ruby on Rails architect

I rebuild and scale Ruby on Rails systems, and add the AI layer.

23 years in software, 18 of them in Rails. I work as a long-term technical partner on one product, rather than as a fixer for a queue of small tasks.

Konstantin Rafalskii

By the numbers

years in software
23years in software
years in Rails
18years in Rails
Upwork clients
43Upwork clients
hours tracked
21,500+hours tracked
Job Success
100%Job Success
Expert-Vetted
Top 1%Expert-Vetted

Selected work

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Grafo

Agentic AI workflows on OpenAI and Anthropic, at 5,000+ parallel requests a minute.

Rails 7
Sidekiq
OpenAI API
Anthropic API
AWS
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Zipchat

RAG over store data, search in the function-calling flow, and a faster admin dashboard.

Ruby on Rails
Shopify
ChatGPT API
Pinecone
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Minute7

Rails 6.0 to 7.2, with the React front end, the AWS pipeline and two QuickBooks integrations.

Rails 7.2
React
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
QuickBooks API
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eLocker

An architecture review that became three years of building the team and the product.

Ruby on Rails
Project architecture
Code review
Team building
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What clients say

Konstantin has been an invaluable leader to our team at GrafoAI. He possesses a remarkable depth of technical knowledge and expertise and has consistently delivered high-quality code. Konstantin has a remarkable ability to analyze and solve complex problems, often seeing them before they appear.

Adam L. — Founder and CEO, grafo.io5/5

Konstantin worked for us for over 2 years and did an exceptional job in contributing to our Ruby on Rails codebase. He was always willing to dive in deep and was very committed to making our code base better. He has great expertise and would be more than happy to rehire him in the future!

Aashin N. — VP Engineering, cerebral.com5/5

Konstantin is an exceptional RoR Consultant/Dev who deserves high praise for his remarkable contributions to our team in really tough situations. His profound expertise in his guidance for designing complex software systems has been a driving force behind the successful implementation of several critical projects.

Billy W. — Operations Director, elocker.com5/5

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Tell me what the app does, what is going wrong, and the Rails and Ruby versions. I reply with what I would do first.

Full overlap with European business hours, and 9am–6pm US Eastern.

43 clients, 21,500+ hours, 100% Job Success — the reviews are on Upwork.

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