Peter Tolkachev
«I build software systems and study the systems that build us. For me engineering and research into the digital economy are two views of the same question: how the infrastructure of contemporary life is built, how platforms and product decisions shape behaviour, and what kind of subject they produce.»
For over seven years I have designed and built web applications, mostly in fintech and banking: high-load interfaces, platform tooling, infrastructure for engineering teams. Alongside this I run applied research into the digital economy — how platforms, infrastructure and product decisions produce particular economic roles and the figure of the entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship is not only something I study — I practise it, and that view from the inside feeds both the engineering and the research.
Engineering
I design architecture and build fullstack applications: backend and frontend, platform tooling, feature flags, internal tools for teams. Core stack — TypeScript, React, Node.js, NestJS.
Research
I study entrepreneurial subjectivity, platforms and digital labour: how technological systems and product decisions shape behaviour and economic roles. I run a research programme and bring its findings back into engineering practice.
Writing
I write essays at the intersection of technology and economics: on platforms, labour, institutions, and how infrastructure and product decisions shape behaviour.
I work on products where architecture, reliability and scale matter. I developed and extended Unleash as an engineer and tech lead, and introduced A/B testing and CI/CD. Earlier — the HSE portal serving 40,000+ users, and product development at Potok.io.
My research concerns entrepreneurial subjectivity in the digital economy and the transformations of Russian capitalism. I treat the entrepreneur not as a profession but as a figure produced by a particular economic and technological order. It is an applied lens: understanding how platforms, infrastructure and product decisions shape behaviour is directly useful to the people who build those systems.
Open to conversations about hard engineering problems, research collaborations and publications.
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