Dmitry (Dee) Kargaev — AI Engineer & Product Designer

About

Dmitry (Dee) Kargaev. AI Engineer and Product Designer. Los Angeles.

Origins

Design, code, and AI. One person, end to end. I've been making things on the internet since I was 14. Started freelancing in design in Irkutsk, Siberia. By 20 I was leading a team at Spacecode, a digital agency in Moscow shipping apps for Kaspersky, OTPBank, and 50+ other clients.

VALK

Spent 5 years as lead product designer at VALK (now DatAI Network), a fintech platform processing $4B+ in transactions, used by 70+ banks in 15 countries. I designed the product people at those banks actually used every day: compliance workflows, risk monitoring dashboards, cross-border transaction interfaces. 5 industry awards. CNN, Forbes, Yahoo Finance coverage.

Now

Now I build multi-agent AI systems that run in production. Rust CLIs, MCP servers, model selectors. I also run dee.agency, a solo studio doing design, code, and AI for founders who need stuff shipped, not discussed. Fixed price, async communication. One person, idea to live product.

Writing

I write about what actually works in AI engineering at my blog. Build logs, debugging notes, things I learned the hard way. No thought leadership. No trend predictions.

Solo

I've shipped products from six countries. No team, no layers, no project managers. You talk to me, I build it, you get a working URL. If it needs design, code, or AI, I do it.

Personal

Born in Siberia. Lived and worked remotely across Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Turkey, Malaysia before settling in Los Angeles in 2022. Pescatarian. Married. ADHD. Async only, no calls.

Education

BS in Computer and Information Systems Security, Moscow State Linguistic University.

Links

  • Blog
  • Studio
  • Tools (dee.ink)
  • LinkedIn
  • GitHub
  • Behance
  • X (Twitter)
  • Google Developer
  • DEV.to
  • Hashnode
  • Crunchbase
  • Wellfound
  • Product Hunt

Projects

McClaw — AI Tool

Find which local LLMs actually run on your hardware for AI agent setups. Hardware-aware model recommendations with real benchmarks across 340+ models.

Lobster Tools — Directory

Curated directory of tools, plugins, and apps built for the OpenClaw ecosystem. Browse, submit, and discover with X auth and community voting.

MoltedIn — AI Platform

LinkedIn for AI agents. Discover, compare, and hire sub-agents for OpenClaw and other orchestration frameworks. Clerk auth + Convex backend.

Smart Spawn — OpenClaw Plugin

Intelligent sub-agent spawning for OpenClaw. Auto-selects the right model for each task based on benchmarks, cost, and capability. 340+ models, 5 data sources.

codemode — MCP Tool

Give your AI agent access to any API in ~1,000 tokens. Two tools replace hundreds of definitions. 56 APIs ready out of the box.

clawbot.blog — Content Platform

Astro static blog with an automated content pipeline. Scout → rank → draft → SEO review → publish. Fully autonomous content generation for OpenClaw ecosystem.

Vasted — CLI Tool

GPU inference in one command. Picks a cheap GPU on Vast.ai, loads any GGUF model, gives you an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Auto-kills on idle.

Expertise

Frameworks & Frontend

React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, shadcn/ui, Vue, Svelte, Astro, Vite, Remix, Nuxt, Turborepo

Design

Product Design, Design Systems, Figma, Brutalism, Interaction Design, Information Architecture, Design Tokens, Component Libraries, Accessibility, Responsive Systems

AI Core

Multi-Agent Orchestration, RAG Pipelines, LLM Tool Calling, Prompt Engineering, Embeddings, Vector Search, Eval Frameworks, Agentic Workflows, Function Calling, Context Window Optimization, Fine-Tuning, Semantic Search, Chain of Thought, Knowledge Graphs

AI Tools

LangChain, LangGraph, CrewAI, n8n, OpenClaw, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenRouter, MCP Servers, Claude, GPT, Gemini, Grok, Ollama, Llama, Mistral, Qwen

Fintech & Crypto

Fintech, DeFi Protocols, Tokenomics, Solidity, Institutional Trading UX, Custody Systems, Compliance Interfaces, Web3, Smart Contracts, On-Chain Analytics

Languages & APIs

TypeScript, Python, Swift, SwiftUI, Solidity, SQL, Node.js, GraphQL, WebSockets, Edge Functions

Databases

Supabase, Convex, Postgres, Redis, Pinecone, Drizzle, Prisma, Vector Databases

Animation & 3D

Framer Motion, Three.js, Matter.js, WebGL, GSAP, Spline, React Three Fiber, Shader Programming, Physics Simulations, Procedural Generation

Infrastructure

Docker, Vercel, Railway, Hetzner, Caddy, GitHub Actions, Cloudflare, Tailscale, Syncthing, Self-Hosting, Telegram Bots, Discord Bots, Chrome Extensions

Beliefs

  • Ship it then fix it
  • Velocity over perfection
  • AI is a material
  • Building over talking
  • Design is how it works
  • Systems over features
  • ADHD is a feature
  • Function over form
  • No calls — async only
  • Eliminate the non-essential
  • Autonomy over belonging
  • Code is design
  • Outcomes over process
  • No excuses
  • Leverage over labor
  • Let the agents work
  • Brutal honesty
  • Less but better
  • Authenticity over respectability
  • Hyperfocus is power
  • Parallel execution
  • 15 years of shipping
  • Data driven
  • Build don't plan
  • Pure signal, no noise
  • Strict typography
  • Iterate
  • Sprint two weeks ship
  • Form is void

Links and Profiles

  • Blog (blog.deeflect.com)
  • Studio (dee.agency)
  • Tools (dee.ink)
  • X/Twitter (@deeflectcom)
  • GitHub (@deeflect)
  • LinkedIn (dkargaev)
  • Behance (dkargaev)
  • Google Developer (deeflect)
  • DEV.to (deeflect)
  • Hashnode (deeflect)
  • Crunchbase
  • Wellfound
  • Product Hunt