I’m Oleksandr Zhuravlov.
Zhuravlov comes from журавель, Ukrainian for “crane” — Oleks Crane is simply my name in English.
How I work
Direct collaboration
You work with me directly: the person who designs the system is the person who writes the code. No middlemen means nothing lost in handoffs — and no one on your bill who doesn’t build the product.
I build — you own
I take responsibility for a significant part of your product, from architecture to infrastructure. You own the result — the code, the docs, the decisions and the accounts — and keep me on because you want to, not because you have to.
Outcomes over hours
I sell working software and the responsibility for it, not engineering capacity by the hour.
Evidence over claims
I’d rather show you what I’ve built than list what I can do.
- 11+ years engineering
- Full development lifecycle
- Engineering leadership
The longer story
From the interface down.
I started out building interfaces: UI components, then the front ends of browser games, then web apps. From there I worked my way down the stack — APIs, command-line tools and npm packages, databases, and the infrastructure it all runs on.
Then I became a lead engineer: still writing the code, and building the team that wrote it with me — from scratch, up to nine engineers. I chose the stack for new projects, set up CI/CD and code review, ran the infrastructure on AWS and DigitalOcean, and turned vague requirements into shipped products.
Across very different domains, the constant was the figure-it-out work: researching an unfamiliar domain, prototyping the unknowns first, stitching undocumented systems together, and closing the gap between what the team knew and what the product needed. That has included AI work: chat interfaces for AI models, and pipelines that prepare documents for them.
Oleks Crane is that work, done directly.
Have something to build?
Tell me what you’re working on. I’ll tell you whether I’m the right person for it.
No pressure. Just a conversation.