Anton Konev
An engineering lead based in London, UK
10+ years of experience building scalable products and leading cross-functional teams, UK Global Talent visa holder.
Currently leading an engineering team at Recraft, a modern image editing platform with 3M+ active users in 195 countries and 350M+ image generations, where I built a scalable UI, helped streamline planning, and was named
Before that, I was a Tech Lead at Arrival, where I helped scale from 1 product to 8 and built a Digital Assets Storage system that reduced data transfer by 70%,
Earlier, at Yandex I led development of a core platform used by 6,000+ developers and helped reduce time-to-market by 50%.
Writing
The philosopher’s stone
AI can write the code, but it cannot supply engineering judgment
When logic isn’t enough
Why technical disagreements are rarely settled by better arguments alone
Time to come clean
A photo diary from the rare occasions when I leave the house
Four links worth your time
Four standout stories from Hacker News, selected every day
The Titanic effect in practice
What Cloudflare’s outage teaches about hidden systemic risk