Engineer.

About

Mykyta Havrylenko

For the past years I gave myself fully to the work, and the work became my lifestyle. Five years of professional career isn't a long time, but in those five years I've picked up a lot of instruments — programming languages, tools, ways of thinking — and worked across many different teams and domains.

What I've come to understand is that everything is an instrument. The real question is the one underneath: what are we actually trying to achieve, and how are we going to get there. The instrument is downstream of that.

The thing I love most in this world is watching someone else do well. There's a particular kind of moment I keep finding my way back to — when someone's stuck idea starts to move, when a hard problem gets a small turn and suddenly has direction. If I can be the angle that makes that turn happen, even slightly, I'd do that work for free.

Engineering, to me, is a form of art — a way to ship something new into the world and open up possibilities that didn't exist before. I'm still figuring out how to frame it cleanly. But that's the shape of it.

So here's the question I'd leave you with, since you came this far — what are you actually trying to make real, and what would have to be true for it to start moving?

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Voice dictation comes to NoteBee

Tap Fn, speak however you speak — rambly, half-finished — and the app turns it into a clean reply that matches your tone.

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My cat helped me build an R&D solution

Ten hours teaching Apple's SpeechAnalyzer Ukrainian anglicisms — X-SAMPA phonetics, dual transcribers, custom dictionaries. From 6% to 73% accuracy on 180+ test sentences, in 8 prototype iterations.

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I built a SaaS app in two weeks

Not "ask Claude to write code" — operating AI like a team lead. Architecture brainstorms, ticketed work, five automated reviewers, full-cycle tests. The power isn't prompt engineering; it's the clarity and precision of your thinking.

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Featured on DOU

The DOU team profiled me as a Prompt Engineer at Readdle. We talked about the work, the stack, and where things go next.

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See you at WAWTECH

Representing Readdle in Warsaw. Come say hi at booth R8 — happy to talk engineering, AI, or anything in between.

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Notes on learning something new

Eight things I tell anyone stepping into a new skill, role, or field. Accept that you don't know much, look for feedback constantly, trust the process.

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