I’m Ilya Verbitskiy. I build AI products, developer tools, and cloud systems.

I’m a software engineer and architect with more than 20 years of experience building web applications, cloud platforms, security systems, and developer tools.

My work has ranged from public digital platforms and banking systems to AWS infrastructure, graph-based security analysis, and AI applications. I’ve worked across the full path from an early idea to architecture, implementation, deployment, and the operational decisions that keep a system useful after launch.

Today, much of my work is focused on AI products and agent-based software. I’m interested in the complete system around the model: how agents use tools, how context is selected, how permissions are enforced, how users inspect results, and how the application behaves when the model is uncertain or wrong.

I explore many of these questions through open-source projects. Charmant.AI, for example, is a local AI agent built around explicit permission gates, audit logs, and human control before an agent can act on a machine. Other projects explore knowledge graphs, retrieval, multimodal search, and AI-assisted developer workflows.

I also work with teams that are building AI products, improving existing platforms, or facing difficult architecture decisions. I’m most useful when the work needs both hands-on engineering and a broader view of security, cloud infrastructure, product boundaries, and long-term maintainability.

Outside project work, I write and speak about AI-native engineering, AWS, software architecture, cloud security, graph databases, and the practical lessons that come from building real systems.