2026
LIVE
Dual Online Timer
Two independent timers on one screen, built after failing to find one that wasn't ad-choked. Vanilla JS, no framework, deployed over FTP with a Python script.
vovka.42web.io ↗Volodymyr Bado · Kraków, Poland
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SYSTEMS & MEANINGS ENGINEER
From reballing motherboards to architecting AI agents. I don't just solve tasks — I find the connections between hardware, traffic, content and safety. Driven by pure curiosity.
- 15+years engineering
- 4languages spoken
- 1home server running this site
Reverse
Engineering
The foundation: understanding technology at the physical level.
It started with curiosity, not a job title. Jailbreaking devices to see what was underneath. Then diagnostics, soldering and BGA reballing on the Lenovo support engineering team — the kind of work where a schematic and a steady hand decide whether a board lives.
Fifteen years later, that instinct never left: if something is closed, I open it. If a part doesn't exist, I model it and print it. Hardware taught me the discipline every other layer borrows — trace the signal until you find where it actually breaks.
- 2009—2014Senior Service EngineerKM-Service / Destine, Odessa
- 2015—2016Senior Technical ExpertCitrus Company, Odessa
- 2016EngineerLenovo support engineering, Odessa
The Traffic
Ecosystem
Three years inside a Google vendor — learning the machine from the inside.
At Arvato / Majorel I supported advertisers on Google Ads, Analytics, Merchant Center and Tag Manager, then led a service revenue program and ramped new hires. You learn fast that ad platforms aren't magic boxes — they're systems with inputs, feedback loops and failure modes.
What I kept from it: funnels are plumbing. Lead magnets, landing copy, tracking, bidding, creative — each one a valve. Fix the right valve and the number moves; polish the wrong one and nothing happens. Analytics tells you which valve.
0years inside the Google ads ecosystem
0ad platforms worked hands-on
0advertiser accounts supported
Production &
Content Architecture
Four years building a YouTube studio — and meaning in four languages.
I built a studio from an empty room: lighting, sound, camera, set. Then the harder part — the writing. Scripts, structure, pacing, the moment where a viewer decides to stay. Production is engineering with a different set of tolerances.
Working across PL · EN · RU · UA taught me that a message isn't translated, it's rebuilt. The same idea needs different scaffolding in every language to land the same way.
AI & Trust
The present: scale through AI, inside a zero-trust environment.
As a Senior Process Analyst I work in content review and policy enforcement — analysing at scale, spotting what doesn't comply, and turning findings into process improvements. It's judgment work under strict protocols, and it made me careful about what a system is allowed to decide on its own.
In parallel I build with AI every day: Claude, Gemini and GPT for reasoning and code, local models via Ollama and Open WebUI when data must never leave the room, and custom MCP servers so the models can actually touch my tools. The interesting part isn't the model — it's the wiring.
The Build Log
Things I actually shipped — mostly for myself, mostly at night.
2026
LIVE
Kids Timer
A calmer fork of the timer for children — bigger targets, softer motion, no distractions. Same engine, different psychology.
kids-timer.42web.io ↗
2026
LIVE
Personal Book Reader
My own replacement for a reading service I stopped trusting. Handles EPUB, PDF, FB2 and TXT, remembers position, and belongs to nobody but me.
books.42web.io ↗
2026
TOOL
AutoDubber
Video dubbing pipeline: SRT in, dubbed track out. Azure Neural TTS and MicMonster back-ends, auto speed-matching per subtitle, GUI launcher. Every language works.
2026
OSS
MCP Server Suite
Model Context Protocol servers that give AI agents real hands: Gemini WebAPI (image gen + chat), Flux, MicMonster TTS (12 tools), NotebookLM automation.
2026
PRODUCT
Extension Factory
A generator for Chrome new-tab extensions: one engine, six themes, a build script that stamps out a full store-ready package — plus landing page and payment flow.
2026
PIPELINE
Book-to-Video Pipeline
Turns a book into a 35-minute YouTube script: NotebookLM extraction, structural scaffolding, humanising passes, then auto-split into teleprompter files.
2026
RUNNING
Home AI Studio · LordVecna
A second machine turned into a 24/7 server: local LLMs on Ollama, a news bot on Telegram, a remote browser for the family — and the box serving this very page.
NEXT
Something that doesn't exist yet?
That's usually where I start. Tell me what breaks, what's slow, or what you wish were automated.
Let's connect the dots →Skills Constellation
Five worlds, one map. Move your cursor — everything is connected.
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Open to work where the problem crosses more than one domain — hardware and software, growth and content, AI and the rules it has to live by. Also happy to just talk shop.
- EMAIL [email protected]
- LINKEDIN /in/volodymyr-bado-1b859794 ↗
- LOCATION Kraków, Poland · open to remote
- CV Volodymyr_Bado_CV.pdf ↓