Vlad Shcherbinin

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Vlad Shcherbinin — technology leader, writer, builder.

Two decades across four countries, one recurring obsession with systems that actually work.

Back in the Trenches, Part 2: Make It Talk
Apr 26, 2026 Back in the Trenches

Back in the Trenches, Part 2: Make It Talk

Building the full pipeline — from Twilio call ingestion to LLM causal reasoning — to extract why a changepoint happened, not just when.

engineeringAI/MLTypeScriptTwilio
Back in the Trenches, Part 1: Karaul!
Apr 07, 2026 Back in the Trenches

Back in the Trenches, Part 1: Karaul!

On returning to hands-on engineering — building a TypeScript changepoint detection library from first principles while running a technology organization.

engineeringTypeScriptAI/MLleadership
Zen and the Art of Making Samogon: A Survival Guide for the AI Era
Mar 30, 2026

Zen and the Art of Making Samogon: A Survival Guide for the AI Era

On Pirsig, a moonshine still built from copper tubing in Nigerian heat, and why the willingness to look inside things matters more now than ever.

AIphilosophycraftsystems
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