Full stack
Antonin Januska

About

Hi, I'm Antonin.

Staff Engineer building AI-backed systems, engineering standards, and the workflows that let teams ship serious software.

20+Years building
2012Blogging since
600+GitHub stars
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Antonin Januska

In short

Staff engineer focused on the infrastructure production LLM systems run on: evaluation harnesses, multi-provider dispatch, rate-limit handling, and guardrails on model output.

Principles

Read right to left, one column at a time.

  1. 一 A deployed MVP is worth two prototyped.
  2. 二 Dance like nobody is watching, code like everybody is.
  3. 三 Today's fashion is tomorrow's legacy.
  4. 四 Debugging becomes easier if you first admit that you are the problem.
  5. 五 The best code is no code at all.

See the proverbs project

The rest of the operating system

Antonin hiking in Colorado

Photography

I shoot animals, landscapes, people, and street scenes. The camera is how I stay observant.

Fiction

I write AI-themed fiction and short stories when technical writing is not enough.

Podcasts & Games

I have opinions about Final Fantasy, narrative design, and the overlap between games and technology.

What I work with now

The stack changes. The throughline doesn't. I'm usually working where backend systems, product delivery, and AI workflows collide.

AI & LLM Systems

Measuring model output, routing it across providers, and trusting none of it by default.

  • LLM Evaluation & Judge Grading
  • Multi-Provider LLM Dispatch
  • Token Budgeting & Rate-Limit Engineering
  • Structured Output & Guardrails
  • Model Context Protocol (MCP)
  • Agent Tooling & Orchestration

Languages

Python on the backend, TypeScript for everything else, SQL wherever the data lives.

  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • SQL

Platforms & Tools

Async services on Kubernetes, databases picked per job, front ends in React or Svelte.

  • FastAPI
  • Redis
  • Postgres
  • SQLite
  • Kubernetes on Azure
  • React & Next.js
  • SvelteKit

Leadership

Setting technical direction and standards, then reviewing what ships against them.

  • Technical Strategy
  • Engineering Standards
  • Cross-Team Delivery
  • Code Review
  • Mentoring

I help teams implement AI-enabled product work, sharpen engineering practices, and build systems that survive real usage.

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