Edgeforge Tech

Senior engineering and applied AI, built for production.

Boutique software engineering practice serving enterprise clients across North America. Ten-plus years building production systems where failure is not an option.

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years building production systems: 10+
peak bets per minute sustained: 100,000+
uptime SLAs during major events: 100%
licensed jurisdictions served: 75+

Selected work

AI-Native Learning Management Platform

US training organization

Challenge: Replace legacy training delivery with a multi-tenant, AI-native LMS for compliance-heavy technical content, serving multiple customer organizations from one platform.
Built: Multi-tenant SaaS LMS with RAG over course content (PostgreSQL + pgvector semantic search), document chunking pipeline, SCORM/xAPI and LTI 1.3 interoperability, role-based dashboards, offline-capable PWA. React/Next.js + TypeScript, Python services, Azure OpenAI.
Result: Platform scoped and delivered to production on a phased six-month plan within a six-figure enterprise engagement; Phase 2 expansion now underway.

LLM-Powered Bid & Project Intelligence

heavy-civil construction contractor

Challenge: Decades of bid and project history locked in unstructured documents; leadership had no structured way to analyze past performance by project type.
Built: LLM-powered document processing and classification pipeline across ~420 historical projects: automated extraction, a project-type taxonomy, and a queryable analysis layer.
Result: First structured, firm-wide view of the complete project and bid history, delivered as a focused block-of-time engagement.

Global Real-Time Betting Platform

OpenBet, six years as senior engineer

Scale: 100,000+ peak bets per minute, 100% uptime SLAs during major sporting events, 75+ licensed jurisdictions, powering top-tier operators including FanDuel, William Hill, and Ladbrokes.
Role: Front-end and back-end development across a globally distributed, high-availability betting engine; the foundation for the reliability discipline applied to every Edgeforge project.

Case studies anonymized to respect client confidentiality. Happy to discuss details on a call.

How I deliver

Discovery
Short call to understand the problem, constraints, and success criteria.
Written scope
Phased plan with explicit in and out of scope, risks, and budget.
Working software first
Usable releases early, before the full budget is committed.
Support
Production support, iteration, and a clear hand-off path.

Engagement models

Hourly

Senior development or architecture work, billed transparently against tracked hours.

Monthly block of time

Reserved senior capacity each month, the right fit for ongoing product work.

Fixed-scope build

A scoped phase with a defined deliverable, for well-bounded projects.

Core stack

Frontend

React / Next.js
TypeScript
React Native

Backend

Node.js (NestJS, Express)
Python

Data

PostgreSQL + pgvector
Prisma
Redis
MongoDB

AWS

Lambda
S3
Cognito
SQS
EventBridge
Step Functions
DynamoDB
SES
Textract
CDK

AI

Bedrock
OpenAI / Azure OpenAI
Anthropic
RAG and agent pipelines

About

I am Michael Batrakov, Principal Software Engineer and CTO of Edgeforge Tech. I spent six years at OpenBet building real-time betting platforms that handled 100,000+ peak bets per minute under 100% uptime SLAs, and the last several years leading AI and full-stack delivery for enterprise clients in learning management, financial services, and construction tech.

I work from British Columbia, Canada, with clients across North America.