# George Khananaev

> Software Engineer | AI Integration, Automation & Infrastructure. Head of Development & IT Infrastructure at Moon Holidays, Bangkok.

## Summary

I'm a software engineer building business applications, integrations and automation. I built a multi-tenant platform from scratch, connecting business applications and dozens of integrations in one system. I combine hands-on development, AI workflows and infrastructure to take a product from its first design decision into daily operations.

## Organizational AI and automation

Dedicated page: https://george.khananaev.com/ai-workflows

- **Product design & custom software**: Design the customer and team experience, then build the interfaces, application logic and integrations behind it. Shape the software around the organization's processes and connect it to AI automation from the outset.
- **AI integration across the organization**: Turn operational needs into useful AI workflows: document and knowledge assistance, support processes, reporting, and repetitive team tasks. Start with a measurable use case, then support adoption and ownership.
- **Automation & multi-agent orchestration**: Coordinate AI agents, business systems and existing tools through clear responsibilities. Combine workflow automation, MCP integrations, event-driven processes and exception handling.
- **AI operations & continuous improvement**: Bring observability into AI-assisted engineering. Connect evidence, issue triage, pull requests, verification and feedback to develop a repeatable path toward self-repairing workflows.
- **Infrastructure for dependable AI**: Design for load balancing, container and workflow orchestration, resilient services, capacity and cost control. Give AI workflows the monitoring, access boundaries and recovery paths needed for ongoing operation.
- **Reporting & business outcomes**: Bring application activity and AI workflow results into useful dashboards and summaries. Measure throughput, service quality, customer satisfaction and total operating cost, then use that evidence to improve the whole solution.

### From operational signals to continuous improvement

Monitoring foundation implemented · Full AI cycle in development

I have implemented an observability foundation and am developing a continuous AI operations cycle: logs become actionable issues, AI agents turn issues into pull requests, and verified outcomes improve the next response.

1. Observe: Logs, metrics and service signals. Output: Operational evidence.
2. AI triage: Group patterns and create issues. Output: Actionable issue.
3. AI implementation: Prepare a scoped change and tests. Output: Pull request.
4. Validate: Run checks and apply release policy. Output: Verified change.
5. Release & verify: Deploy within policy; verify or roll back. Output: Measured outcome.
6. Learn & improve: Refine playbooks, prompts and evaluations. Output: Better next response.

Self-learning means improving the workflow with validated feedback, reusable knowledge and evaluations. Self-repairing means detecting a problem and preparing a tested correction, with release actions governed by explicit policy.

Permissioned context · Sensitive-data filtering · Scoped agent roles · Tests and evaluation · Audit trail · Escalation and rollback

## Hire Me

**Strategy · Applications · AI & Automation · Operations**

I build business applications and connect them to AI workflows, integrations and infrastructure. My work covers the user interface, application logic, testing, deployment and the operational tools a team needs to use the software each day.

Dedicated page: https://george.khananaev.com/work-with-me

### Services offered

- **Organizational AI Integration & Adoption**: Bring AI into existing products, operations and engineering practices. Identify useful workflows, choose appropriate models and tools, integrate with business systems, and help teams adopt the result with measurable success criteria.
- **AI Agents, Orchestration & AI Operations**: Coordinate AI agents with MCP and workflow tools. Develop AI-assisted triage, issue creation and pull-request preparation, with evaluations and operational feedback. Build toward self-learning and self-repairing workflows through explicit permissions, verification, escalation and recovery.
- **System Architecture & Technical Design**: Designing scalable, secure, multi-tenant systems from the ground up. Database schemas, API contracts, event-driven pipelines, and build-vs-buy decisions tuned for your actual scale, team, and budget.
- **Application Development & Delivery**: Build interfaces, application logic and APIs with Python / FastAPI, TypeScript / Next.js and React. Include unit, integration and browser testing, code review, CI/CD and operational handover as part of delivery.
- **AI & LLM Integration**: Integrate hosted or local models into an application, connect tools through MCP and design prompts or retrieval around the use case. Evaluate output quality, failure handling and operating cost before expanding the workflow.
- **Business Automation & AI Workflows**: Connect repetitive business work with reliable automation: AI-assisted document and data processing, reporting, support workflows and system integrations. Combine Python, n8n and existing tools with retries, validation, exception handling and clear operating ownership.
- **Performance, Cost & Scale Optimization**: Investigate slow queries, application latency and infrastructure cost using profiling and operational evidence. Prioritize changes, measure the result against a baseline and document the tradeoffs.
- **DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure**: Infrastructure for dependable software and AI workloads. Load balancing, container orchestration, workflow orchestration and CI/CD, with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, NGINX and Traefik. Add observability with Grafana, Prometheus and Loki, capacity planning, cost controls and recovery workflows.
- **Security & Compliance Engineering**: Review authentication, authorization, data handling, dependencies and application access. Implement scoped security improvements, test them and document the controls the organization needs to operate.
- **Engineering Leadership & Fractional CTO**: Lead engineering delivery while staying involved in technical decisions, code review and mentoring. Set priorities with the team, connect the roadmap to product needs and support implementation and operations.
- **Legacy Modernization & Rescue Engagements**: Assess an existing application, its dependencies and the problems blocking delivery. Plan a staged modernization or recovery, with tests, operational checks and rollback points.

## Public Portfolio

Public projects on GitHub, including open-source and source-available tools.

Browse all: https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio
RSS: https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/rss.xml

### [Modern Auth](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/modern-auth)
*Account journeys and reusable authentication*

Authentication and user-management template with social sign-in, profile controls and responsive light and dark interfaces.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/modern-auth
Tags: nextjs, typescript, mongodb, authjs
Reading time: 1 min

### [PixelDiet](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/pixel-diet)
*Native image processing for macOS*

Native macOS application for batch image compression, resizing and format conversion, with offline processing and metadata controls.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/pixel-diet
Tags: swiftui, image-processing
Reading time: 2 min

### [Spark Clean: a macOS storage cleaner for developers](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/spark-clean)
*Free, open source, and built for developer workflows*

A free, open-source macOS storage and cache cleaner built specifically for developers. Scans Docker images, Xcode derived data, Node.js node_modules, Ollama models, JetBrains caches, Homebrew cellar, and more. Shows you exactly what it wants to delete before it deletes anything.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/spark-clean
Tags: swift, macos, devtools, open-source
Reading time: 2 min

### [Claude Skills Vault: Skills, Commands & MCP](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/claude-skills-vault)
*A reusable toolkit for Claude Code development workflows*

A curated collection of Claude Code skills, slash commands, MCP configurations, and tutorials, with an npm CLI to browse and install workflows in your project.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/claude-skills-vault
Tags: ai, claude, devtools, workflow
Updated: 2026-09-06
Reading time: 2 min

### [FastAPI DocShield: protect your API docs with one line](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/fastapi-docshield)
*HTTP Basic Auth on the OpenAPI docs endpoints for FastAPI*

A tiny FastAPI extension that adds HTTP Basic Authentication to the Swagger UI, ReDoc, and OpenAPI JSON endpoints. Drop it in, set a username and password, and your API docs are no longer public. Useful when you want docs in production but not publicly indexable.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/fastapi-docshield
Tags: fastapi, python, security, authentication
Reading time: 2 min

### [Excel AI Assistant: AI transforms for spreadsheets](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/excel-ai-assistant)
*A Python desktop app that adds LLM-powered transformations to Excel and CSV files*

A Python desktop application that enhances Excel and CSV files using AI transformations. Features dual AI backends (OpenAI API and local Ollama), customizable prompt templates, batch processing, and a workflow built for analysts who want AI without leaving their spreadsheet.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/excel-ai-assistant
Tags: python, ai, llm, openai, ollama, desktop
Reading time: 2 min

### [Google Reviews Scraper Pro: Google Maps Review Scraper](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/google-reviews-scraper-pro)
*Multi-business collection, review history, image storage, and a REST API*

An open-source Google Maps review scraper with multilingual collection, SQLite history, image downloads, MongoDB sync, S3 storage, and a FastAPI service.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/google-reviews-scraper-pro
Tags: python, web-scraping, mongodb, automation, selenium
Updated: 2026-09-06
Reading time: 3 min

### [Dark Theme Auth FastAPI Server](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/darktheme-auth-fastapi-server)
*A FastAPI template with auth-protected endpoints, Redis, logging, and a custom dark-themed docs UI*

A versatile FastAPI server template with authentication-protected endpoints, Redis caching, structured logging, and a custom dark theme for the API documentation. A solid foundation for production APIs that want opinions baked in from day one.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/darktheme-auth-fastapi-server
Tags: fastapi, python, redis, authentication, template
Reading time: 2 min

### [PyNextStack: a full-stack user management starter](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/pynextstack)
*FastAPI backend, Next.js frontend, auth and profiles out of the box*

A full-stack user management system with a Next.js frontend and FastAPI backend. Registration, authentication, profile management, and a Material-UI interface. Production-ready defaults so you can focus on your actual product instead of rebuilding the login form.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/PyNextStack
Tags: fastapi, nextjs, python, typescript, authentication, full-stack
Reading time: 2 min

### [py-image-compressor: batch image compression in Python](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/py-image-compressor)
*A lightweight CLI for compressing, converting, and resizing images in bulk*

A small Python utility for compressing, converting, and resizing hundreds of images at once. Supports modern formats like WebP, handles recursive directory scans, and preserves structure so you can run it on a whole asset folder safely.

GitHub: https://github.com/georgekhananaev/py-image-compressor
Tags: python, cli, images, webp, automation
Reading time: 2 min

## Commercial Portfolio

Public summaries of commercial work: business purpose, George's role and technologies. Confidential implementation and operational details are not published.

### [AI Operations Monitoring](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/ai-operations-monitoring)
*Observability and an AI improvement cycle in development*

Operational observability with dashboards and alerts; the AI-assisted incident-to-fix workflow is in development.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: grafana, prometheus, loki, opentelemetry
Reading time: 1 min

### [AI Travel Journey](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/ai-travel-journey)
*From customer conversation to a shared travel direction*

AI turns customer and agency conversations into a visual journey summary, helping travelers confirm the direction before specific travel offers are prepared.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: nextjs, react, typescript, mongodb, ai
Reading time: 2 min

### [AroiMenu](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/aroimenu)
*Restaurant orders and service coordination*

Restaurant operations application connecting cashier work, customer orders and kitchen coordination.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: web-applications, multi-tenancy, automation
Reading time: 1 min

### [Crewbase](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/crewbase)
*Company workspaces and team administration*

Airline company portal for managing workspaces, members, teams, roles and permissions in Hebrew and English.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: nextjs, react, react-query, typescript
Reading time: 1 min

### [JP Tours](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/jp-tours)
*Japan travel publishing and automation*

WordPress travel website with automated publishing workflows and remote content management for travel operations.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: wordpress, php, typescript, automation
Reading time: 1 min

### [YELFOX: Marketing Distribution System](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/marketing-distribution-system)
*Campaigns and lifecycle communication*

Marketing automation for audience segmentation, campaigns, scheduled lifecycle messaging, reusable templates and delivery analytics.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: nextjs, prisma, react-email, resend, better-auth
Reading time: 1 min

### [VisaBreeze: Custom Plugins & AI Workflows](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/visabreeze)
*Interactive visa tools, AI assistance, news publishing, and content automation*

A WordPress visa-services platform with custom design, twelve visitor tools, AI chat, a news hub, and n8n workflows for research, content, and SEO.

Role: Software engineering and application delivery
Tags: wordpress, php, mcp, n8n, ai
Reading time: 3 min

### [StaySync: Hotel Operations & Business Software](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/staysync-b2b-hotel-allotment)
*Confidential commercial work · purpose and technologies*

StaySync supports hotel availability and allotment workflows. Explore George’s role and technologies while commercial and implementation details stay private.

Role: Engineering & product leadership
Tags: typescript, postgresql, firebase
Reading time: 2 min

### [Live Deck: Real-Time Call-Center Analytics](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/live-deck-call-center-dashboard)
*Live and historical insights, configurable widgets, and TV-ready dashboards*

Call-center analytics with real-time streaming, historical views, draggable widgets, saved profiles, and TV/kiosk controls, built with React and TypeScript.

Role: Engineering & product leadership
Tags: typescript, react, sqlite, firebase
Reading time: 3 min

### [Support Hub: Support Workflows & Leadership](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/moon-support-hub-leadership)
*A clear support experience for the organization*

Support Hub brings requests and ticket visibility together. See George’s engineering contribution, an empty test workspace and the wider AI automation context.

Role: Engineering & product leadership
Tags: typescript, nextjs, react, prisma, mongodb, firebase
Reading time: 2 min

### [TravelPanel WebSocket Server](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/travelpanel-websocket-server)
*Real-time communication infrastructure for organizations*

A uWebSockets.js communication server for organizational messaging, notifications, and presence, with connection monitoring and interactive API documentation.

Role: Backend engineering & technical leadership
Tags: nodejs, javascript, websocket, uwebsocketsjs, redis, docker
Reading time: 2 min

### [TravelOffer: A Branded Travel Experience](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/traveloffer-multi-brand-booking)
*Customer-facing product design and engineering*

TravelOffer presents branded travel proposals for customers. Explore George’s contribution and a real interface crop, with commercial and personal data excluded.

Role: Engineering & product leadership
Tags: typescript, nextjs, react, material-ui
Reading time: 2 min

### [Travel Panel: Enterprise Platform & Leadership](https://george.khananaev.com/portfolio/travel-panel-core-platform)
*Confidential commercial work · public purpose and technologies*

A public overview of Travel Panel, George’s engineering leadership, and organizational AI and automation work. Internal implementation stays private.

Role: Engineering & product leadership
Tags: python, fastapi, typescript, nextjs, react, mongodb, postgresql, redis, docker, aws, grafana, prometheus, loki, nginx, n8n
Reading time: 2 min

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## Contact

- Website: https://george.khananaev.com
- Contact form: https://george.khananaev.com/work-with-me#contact
- github.com/georgekhananaev
- linkedin.com/in/georgekhananaev

## Technologies & capabilities

### AI systems & agents

Integrate hosted and local models, connect tools and coordinate AI agents with scoped context and evaluation.
Technologies: OpenAI API, Claude, Gemini, Ollama, MCP, Claude Code, Codex CLI, Gemini CLI, Cursor.

### Automation & integrations

Connect business systems, automate recurring work and integrate payments, communications and event-driven workflows.
Technologies: n8n, REST APIs, GraphQL, Webhooks, Stripe, Twilio, Resend, Home Assistant.

### Cloud & hosting

Choose cloud and hosting platforms around deployment needs, geography, capacity, operating costs and recovery.
Technologies: AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Cloudflare, Vercel, Netlify, Fly.io, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, Kamatera.

### Containers & infrastructure

Operate containers and virtual machines with orchestration, load balancing, infrastructure as code and repeatable configuration.
Technologies: Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Proxmox, VMware, Terraform, Ansible, Linux, NGINX, Traefik.

### Observability & reliability

Combine logs, metrics, traces and error reporting to diagnose problems and guide dependable operations and AI-assisted improvements.
Technologies: Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, Sentry, OpenTelemetry.

### Application platforms & UI

Build business applications and product interfaces with reusable components, responsive layouts and clear user workflows.
Technologies: Next.js, React, WordPress, Astro, Vite, Tailwind CSS, MUI, shadcn/ui, Radix UI, TanStack Query, Framer Motion, macOS / iOS.

### Backend & API platforms

Build integration services and application backends with validated data, documented interfaces and appropriate runtimes.
Technologies: FastAPI, Node.js, NestJS, Hono, Bun, Deno, Uvicorn, Pydantic, Swagger / OpenAPI.

### Data, storage & messaging

Combine relational and document databases, caching, search, object storage and message delivery around each product’s needs.
Technologies: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Valkey, Elasticsearch, Prisma, Drizzle ORM, Supabase, Firebase, RabbitMQ, Kafka, WebSockets, MinIO.

### Security & access

Support application identity, authenticated access, encrypted connections and certificate management across public and internal tools.
Technologies: Clerk, JWT, Let's Encrypt, SSH.

### Testing & delivery

Use version control, automated checks, browser testing and delivery pipelines to make changes repeatable and reviewable.
Technologies: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Vitest, Jest, Pytest, Playwright, Selenium.

## Spoken languages

Hebrew, Russian, English

## Career

### Head of Development & IT Infrastructure, Moon Holidays, Bangkok (Mid 2025 - Present)

- Lead engineering delivery, organizational AI integration and infrastructure across the company’s software products.
- Implemented an observability foundation for operational monitoring and issue investigation.

In development: Developing AI-assisted issue triage and tested pull requests, with evaluations and release controls. The full automation cycle is in development.

### Engineering Team Lead, Moon Holidays, Bangkok (Dec 2024 - Mid 2025)

- Promoted from Full Stack Developer to lead the engineering team.
- Led engineering delivery of Support Hub, TravelOffer and Live Deck, covering internal support, travel proposals and real-time team dashboards.
- Established shared code review practices and deployment pipelines for the engineering team.

### Full Stack Developer, Moon Holidays, Bangkok (Dec 2022 - Dec 2024)

- Designed and delivered a confidential enterprise travel platform using Python, FastAPI, TypeScript and Next.js.

### Backend Software Developer, Majestier, Singapore (2019 - 2022)

- Built a Python backend that synchronized data across eBay, Shopify, BigCommerce and WooCommerce.
- Built Python data analysis, reporting and automation tools for ecommerce operations.
- Operated AWS RDS and Linux infrastructure supporting business integrations.

### Automation and Integration Developer, Kanzezol, Israel (2016 - 2019)

- Built Python and VBA automations that replaced repetitive manual tasks for ecommerce stores.

## Education

- **Java full-stack coursework**, HackerU College (2022 - 2023)
- **Python coursework**, CampusIL (2020)

## Public developer tools

- **Google Reviews Scraper Pro**: An open-source Google Maps review scraper with multilingual collection, SQLite history, image downloads, MongoDB sync, S3 storage, and a FastAPI service.
- **Excel AI Assistant**: A Python desktop application that enhances Excel and CSV files using AI transformations. Features dual AI backends (OpenAI API and local Ollama), customizable prompt templates, and batch processing.
- **py-image-compressor**: A Python tool for batch image compression, conversion and resizing, including WebP output.
- **PyNextStack**: Full-Stack User Management System with Next.js frontend and FastAPI backend. Features registration, authentication, profile management, and Material-UI interface.
- **Spark Clean**: Free, open-source macOS storage and cache cleaner built for developers. Scans Docker, Xcode, Node.js, Ollama, JetBrains, Homebrew, and more.
- **FastAPI DocShield**: A simple FastAPI integration to protect documentation endpoints with HTTP Basic Authentication.
- **Claude Skills Vault**: Reusable Claude Code skills, slash commands, MCP configurations, and tutorials, with an npm CLI for browsing and installation.
- **Dark Theme Auth FastAPI Server**: A versatile FastAPI server template with authentication-protected endpoints, Redis caching, comprehensive logging, and a custom dark theme for API documentation.

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