Hi, I'm Nick Blokhin
Software architect with 20+ years of production systems.
I ship real products with AI — and show what actually works.
Nick Blokhin
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If you’d like to get in touch with me, please email me:

Availability: I work full-time as a software architect and take on outside work selectively. Good fits are architecture reviews and technical direction, AI tooling adoption for engineering teams, and small, well-scoped MVPs. If that sounds like your case, write me — worst case, you get an honest “not now”.

How I can help

You can email me if you think I may be useful in one of these areas:

Architecture and technical direction

Designing systems, APIs, service boundaries, and long-term technical plans.

AI tooling for engineering teams

Introducing agentic coding and AI-assisted workflows into a team: tool selection, guardrails, and measuring what actually helps.

LLM and agentic tool evaluation

Choosing models and AI tools for a specific job — I benchmark them on my own project specs (Prompt Vault), not on vendor demos.

MVPs and product prototypes

Turning an idea into a working first version with a clear scope, pragmatic tech choices, and AI-assisted development where it genuinely speeds things up.

Backend, cloud, and full-stack development

Building practical web products, internal tools, APIs, and cloud-side systems.

Codebase review and modernization

Improving maintainability, structure, reliability, and developer experience.

macOS / iOS app development

Designing and building native apps for Apple platforms, from prototype to App Store release.

Open-source and independent projects

Questions, feedback, collaboration ideas, or discussions around my public projects.

What to include

  • A short description of the topic or problem.
  • Relevant links, screenshots, logs, or examples if they help explain the context.
  • For app development: target platform, core idea, current stage, and release goals.
  • For project-related messages: goals, rough timeline, and current state of the project.

Why email: Messaging apps and social networks are convenient for quick chats, but they often lack the structure needed for professional conversations. I prefer email because it remains reliable for correspondence, context, and long-term records.