I lead engineering teams and build complex software systems.
I’m Andrei Panov. For more than fifteen years, I’ve worked across product engineering, organisational systems and AI-native development.
My current focus is how agentic systems change software development, how evaluation fits into engineering workflows, and how organisations adopt new technology effectively.
Selected writing
Essays and frameworks based on practical engineering and leadership work.
In AI era UI feels more static than it can be
How local models could help interfaces decide what deserves attention, connect the context around our data, and adapt the level of detail—through shopping, mail and banking examples.
Time Theming for Engineering Managers
Performance reviews, calibrations, regular meetings and ongoing projects—all overlapping in an engineering manager’s calendar. Something starts suffering. Usually, it is strategic thinking and proactive initiatives. But many of these busy periods are known in advance. So why keep treating them as normal weeks with a bit more work? A few thoughts on time theming for engineering managers: adapting routines and commitments to different periods, and preparing the team before the calendar becomes a bottleneck.
🤘 Monthly Metal Crawler and local LLMs
How a Swift and MLX crawler became a practical experiment in using different local models for extraction, comparison and recommendation.
Technology and society
Longer observations about ownership, platforms, work, attention and technological dependence.
