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Rail Yard Works

is a one-man dev studio, and we build all sorts of web & mobile apps, sites, and services.

What is a one-man studio?

This means that I am the only full-time employee of this company. Always.

Even though I'm the only full-time employee, this doesn't mean that I work alone. I have friends from all over the world with all kinds of backgrounds: UX/UI design, DevOps, front-end, back-end, marketing, and project/product management. So when I or my clients need extra help, e.g. niche expertise or extra pair of hands to meet their deadlines, I bring them on board on a freelance basis.

Who am I?

My name is Nikita, I'm a software developer based in London 🇬🇧.

Over the last few years, I’ve worked on a number of projects of different sizes in all sorts of companies, including multinational consulting companies, large retail brands, and small to medium-sized start-ups.

I'm currently taking on roles that are a mix of leadership and active engineering, where I focus mainly on setting up proper dev processes, building teams, and getting products to market.

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Our projects

Things that I've built or helped to build

CSV Studio

Creating a front-end with Vue.js for a greenfield POC project, a browser based visual debugging tool for CSV files which contain parsing errors and other irregularities.
By RYW

StoreBot

A Telegram payment bot for accepting payments for digital products. Made with python.
By RYW

VicTellsTales

An e-commerce website for an individual artist to sell her children's books. Made with Swell Commerce and Next.js.

SiberusERP

A sales site for a Microsoft Dynamics 365 consulting company. Made with Gatsby.js.

Via.Delivery

A variety of products, including the main platform for a BOPA service for online stores and D2C brands to manage their order deliveries. Used Gatsby.js, Next.js, Google Maps JS API, and Preact.
By RYW

Layers

An online catalog and order placing service for a patisserie chef to sell her custom deserts. Made with Gridsome.js and Sanity.io.

Visualist app

A platform and a Chrome extension for designers to create and share moodboards. We've used React.js and Chrome Extensions API.

Calvin Klein

Rebuilding the company's main e-commerce site as a part of the WTC and PVH team with Next.js and headless IBM WebSphere Commerce.

Ably Docs

Building a brand new API documentation site for Ably, the edge messaging platform. Made with Gatsby.js and textile-js.
By RYW

Bordrless

A Web3 app for invoicing in Ethereum. Made with Next.js, Ether.js and supabase.

Evido One

A platform to manage social media ads, incl. Facebook, TikTok, Telegram, and VK. Done with React on the front and python and django on the back-end.

Ably Spaces

Demo and a product page for the new Ably Collaborative Spaces SDK. Done with Gatsby.js and Ably Spaces SDK.

Blog

Case study: e-commerce store for an artist/writer

16 October 2023

It takes a lot of thinking when launching even a simple greenfield e-commerce site (without any legacy) for a small business. Apart from consider tech options, I also had to think about the UX, customer journey, and think about not only good outcomes, but also...

Outsourcing all the filtering, ordering, etc. to the back-end

22 June 2023

I’m the strong believer that front-end is for the user only, and that it should do the minimum. Calculations, filtering, sorting, mapping, and all of that sort of stuff should be done on the back-end. My opinion is that...

Storybook 7.0 + React.js + TailwindCSS + CSS modules + Typescript setup that #$%& works

21 February 2023

Setting up a storybook project should NOT be THAT hard. I mean, everyone uses Storybook, it’s the only viable option out there when working on a design system...

Frameworks and tools I’ll keep ignoring in 2023

5 January 2023

Up until maybe 2 years ago I’ve had this FOMO every time new library or framework was released. I’ve always thoughts that I HAD to learn it, otherwise I’ll be unemployable. And then I was stressing out when I didn’t have time to learn it ALL. Now is different...
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