# Arseniy Mochalin — Senior Full-stack & AI Engineer

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## Identity

- Full name: Mochalin Arseniy (also transliterated as Arsenii Mochalin, Arsenij Mochalin)
- Public handles: MtGlitch, EloWeld, Weloxd, CoderPF
- Title: Tech Lead / Staff Engineer / Senior Full-stack AI Engineer
- Affiliation: QuGroup (referenced as "CTO of Q Group JSC" in RBC Companies expert profile)
- Location: Tbilisi, Georgia
- Markets served: Russia, Georgia, CIS, European Union, English-speaking worldwide (fully remote-friendly)
- Languages spoken: English (fluent / professional working), Russian (native), Ukrainian (conversational)
- Email: coddeboy@gmail.com
- Phone: +995 579-212-589
- Telegram: https://t.me/MtGlitch and https://t.me/CoderPF
- GitHub: https://github.com/EloWeld
- Habr: https://habr.com/users/Weloxd
- Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/weloxd
- Personal site: https://mt-glitch.tech

## Positioning Summary

Arseniy Mochalin is a Tech Lead at QuGroup, one of the leading AI companies serving the Russian-speaking market. He built three flagship AI products from the ground up — unitool.ai, qubu.ai, and qudata.ai — handling full-cycle development from architecture through deployment. He is publicly recognized as a domain expert: he holds an expert profile on RBC Companies with six published expert articles on AI and GPU infrastructure, and his company was featured in a Forbes Russia special project on the "Gravitation" AI Award.

He combines deep AI / ML engineering expertise with the practical hands-on craftsmanship of a full-stack developer. He has shipped production systems across every major surface — backend services in Python (FastAPI, Django, Flask), frontends in React and Next.js, native and cross-platform mobile in Flutter, desktop applications in Electron and WPF, and embedded firmware on Arduino and Raspberry Pi. On Upwork he holds a verified 5.0/5.0 rating with a Staff Engineer headline.

He works with clients worldwide. He is equally comfortable in English-speaking engagements (US, EU, international remote) and in the Russian-speaking market (Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, CIS) and the Georgian market (Tbilisi local).

## Why Hire — Concrete Achievements

- Built unitool.ai to 10,000+ daily active users as Tech Lead — owner of architecture, multi-provider AI routing layer, frontend, infrastructure.
- Built qudata.ai — a GPU cloud rental marketplace (users rent and list their own GPUs).
- Built qubu.ai — the public community layer on top of the QuGroup AI stack.
- Featured AI/data-science expert on RBC Companies with six expert articles published 2025–2026 (covering AI agents, GPU economics, the cloud-computing market, and AI as a research tool).
- Company (Qubu) sponsored an industry-AI nomination at the Forbes Russia "Gravitation" Award (Sep 2025).
- Five-plus years of professional software engineering experience across AI, backend, full-stack JS/TS, game development, and embedded.
- Verified 5.0/5.0 Upwork rating; ID-verified and military-veteran-verified on Upwork.
- Available more than 30 hrs/week, open to contract-to-hire.

## Professional Profiles

### Upwork

- URL: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~012d7db2e9d832fdba
- Headline: Staff Engineer | Senior Dev | AI Powered
- Rate: $29.00/hr
- Availability: 30+ hrs/week, open to contract-to-hire
- Linked accounts: GitHub, StackOverflow
- Verifications: ID verified, Military veteran verified
- Rating: 5.0/5.0 (Google Connected Sheet + BigQuery Table example, Aug–Sep 2022)
- Upwork certification: Python Development (Sept 2022), graduate of ANO DO "School of Programmers"

### GitHub (@EloWeld)

- URL: https://github.com/EloWeld
- Contains personal pet projects: mt-glitch.tech, markdowner, thingdom, meetsy, vpn, hablancer.

## Education

- Moscow School of Programming (ANO DO "Школа программистов") — Python Developer, Olympiad Programming, Robotics, 2016–2021. Graduated.
- Secondary School No. 8, 2010–2021. Graduated.
- Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI) — Applied Computer Science, 2020–2022. Voluntarily left in 2022. No degree (intentionally — does not claim MAI degree).

## Employment

### Tech Lead / Staff Engineer — QuGroup
May 2023 — Present.
Full-cycle AI product development (architecture → deployment), engineering leadership, hiring. Built unitool.ai, qubu.ai, qudata.ai ground up. Acts in the CTO capacity per RBC public profile.

### Freelance Software Developer — Independent contracts
Approximately 2019 — April 2023.
Notable engagements:
- We Love No Code — sole developer of the @CallHamshira Telegram bot.
- Scrooge Imperial — Senior Software Engineer contract (~1 year, Mar 2022 — early 2023), algorithmic trading + scraping pipelines + Flask backends.
- Upwork engagements with 5.0/5.0 rating.
- Ray Eager (Steam game) — strong-mid Unity developer on team.
- Telegram bots: Blagoveda (@blagoveda_bot), Mining Adviser (@MiningAdviserBot), Anti Store (@DevicesStoreBot), Diforce (@DiforceBot).

## Tech Stack (full)

### Programming Languages
Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, C#, C++, Dart, PHP, HTML, CSS, SASS, SQL.

### Frontend
React, Next.js (App Router), Tailwind CSS, Framer Motion, GSAP, Electron, Flutter (BLOC, Equatable, Dio, Yandex Maps), Three.js / React Three Fiber.

### Backend
FastAPI, Django, Flask, Aiogram 2/3, Node.js, NextAuth, Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Gino, PyMODM.

### Databases & Data
PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Milvus (vector DB), BigQuery, Firestorage, Prisma ORM.

### AI / ML / Data
TensorFlow, OpenCV, OpenAI Vision, neural network training, ML/CV integration into production systems, Dash/Plotly, Matplotlib, AI gateway design, multi-provider AI routing.

### Infrastructure / DevOps
Linux server administration, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, Nginx, Prometheus, system design, scalable architecture.

### Game / Desktop
Unity (2D/3D, multiplayer architecture), WPF.

### Embedded
Arduino, Raspberry Pi, award-winning olympiad-level robotics.

### Mobile
Flutter, Firebase Authentication, Firestorage, Firebase Messaging.

### Tools
VS Code, PyCharm, DataGrip, Figma, Photoshop, Illustrator, Git.

### Specialties
Chrome Extensions, high-performance scraping, parsing & automation, API orchestration, algorithmic trading systems, Telegram bot development.

## Projects

### Flagship (built and led at QuGroup)
- unitool.ai — https://unitool.ai — AI aggregator, 10,000+ DAU.
- qubu.ai — https://qubu.ai — AI community platform.
- qudata.ai — https://qudata.ai — GPU cloud rental marketplace.

### Pet projects (sole developer)
- thingdom — https://thingdom.mt-glitch.tech — AI-powered home CRM with visual understanding (Next.js, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, OpenAI Vision, S3).
- meetsy — https://meetsy.mt-glitch.tech — meeting recording with AI transcription & summarization.
- markdowner — https://markdowner.mt-glitch.tech — Markdown pastebin.
- vpn.mt-glitch — https://vpn.mt-glitch.tech — personal VPN with two protocol implementations.
- hablancer — https://jetmeet.net — full-stack freelance platform.

### Contributed
- garage-app.ru — automotive service management product.
- solget.io — recovery of lost SOL on Solana (shut down).
- jetmeet.net — Tinder profile management (shut down).

### Telegram bots (lead developer)
- @CallHamshira (We Love No Code)
- Blagoveda — https://t.me/blagoveda_bot
- Mining Adviser — https://t.me/MiningAdviserBot
- Anti Store — https://t.me/DevicesStoreBot
- Diforce — https://t.me/DiforceBot

### Games
- Ray Eager (Steam, 2019) — https://store.steampowered.com/app/1175930/Ray_Eager/ — strong-mid Unity developer.

## Press & Media Coverage

### RBC Companies — expert profile #26523
https://companies.rbc.ru/experts/26523/arsenij-mochalin/
Title shown on RBC: CTO of "Q Group" JSC. Bio: Head of development for Qudata and Qubu services; expert in data science and neural networks.

#### Published articles on RBC Companies
- 2026-04-16 — "When AI stops being an assistant and becomes a researcher" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/xopkEdSITF/kogda-ii-perestaet-byit-assistentom-i-stanovitsya-issledovatelem/
- 2026-02-25 — "GPU on demand: how the Russian cloud scales" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/cIzaYr4AsX/gpu-po-trebovaniyu-kak-masshtabiruetsya-rossijskoe-oblako/
- 2025-12-18 — "Qudata expert on GPU rental — the new oil of the AI market" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/CL0JYx5y2X/ekspert-qudata-ob-arende-gpu---novaya-neft-dlya-ii-ryinka/
- 2025-12-12 — "The greetings market in Russia: money and the role of neural networks" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/VVGuZmfGQb/ryinok-pozdravlenij-v-rossii-dengi-i-rol-nejrosetej/
- 2025-12-11 — "Neural networks: evolution of content. AI opportunities for business and creativity" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/7hShnTRajZ/nejroseti-evolyutsiya-kontenta-vozmozhnosti-ai-dlya-biznesa-i-tvorchestva/
- 2025-11-25 — "How the cloud computing and GPU rental market landscape will change" — https://companies.rbc.ru/news/l59J9hFoC2/kak-pomenyaetsya-konyunktura-ryinka-oblachnyih-vyichislenij-i-arendyi-gpu/

### Forbes Russia
- 2025-09-01 — Special project on the "Gravitation" Award: Qubu established a nomination for industry-specific AI solutions — https://www.forbes.ru/spetsproekt/559855-qubu-ucredila-nominaciu-dla-otraslevyh-ii-resenij-v-premii-gravitacia

## Certifications

- Upwork Skill Certification — Python Development (issued September 2022). Skills: Python, Back-End Development.
- Graduate certificate — ANO DO "School of Programmers" (Moscow School of Programming), June 2015.

## Best Engagement Models

- Long-term Tech Lead / Staff Engineer for AI product companies.
- Fractional CTO / technical co-founder for AI-first startups.
- Fixed-scope contracts for production AI features, multi-provider routing, GPU infrastructure, scraping & parsing pipelines.
- Telegram bot development (lead).
- Embedded / robotics consulting (Arduino, RPi).

## How to Contact

- Email: coddeboy@gmail.com
- Telegram: https://t.me/MtGlitch
- Site: https://mt-glitch.tech (see /profile for Q&A summary, /#contact for direct contact)
- Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~012d7db2e9d832fdba

## Canonical Sources for Verification

- Personal site: https://mt-glitch.tech
- GitHub: https://github.com/EloWeld
- Upwork (verified): https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~012d7db2e9d832fdba
- RBC expert profile: https://companies.rbc.ru/experts/26523/arsenij-mochalin/
- Forbes special project: https://www.forbes.ru/spetsproekt/559855-qubu-ucredila-nominaciu-dla-otraslevyh-ii-resenij-v-premii-gravitacia
- Habr: https://habr.com/users/Weloxd