SHERP is one of Ukraine's best-known engineering exports. Its amphibious machines have appeared on Top Gear, in Jay Leno's Garage, in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and in a McDonald's Super Bowl commercial with Kanye West — and they are run by UN humanitarian missions, Ukraine's State Emergency Service and the Indian Army. Designing the screen their drivers actually read was an honour.
Nazar Ostapenko
21. I design the interface and build the system behind it — and I volunteer on the front line at home.
AI & product engineer
Four years shippingwebsites. Two yearsbuilding the AIthat runs them.
An instrument panel for an amphibious all-terrain vehicle. Ten live products I shipped and still operate alone. Now I am pointing all of it at AI.
- 21
- years old
- 4
- yrs web
- 2
- yrs AI
- 12
- projects
01Selected work
Things that are live and taking money.
Not concepts. Ten of these are running in production right now, and I still operate most of them — hosting, payments, ads, support.
This is the one where I did literally everything: the brand and the brandbook, the interface, the code, the payments, the SEO, the Telegram bot and the ad accounts — then mapped the business itself so it could run without me answering every message. It is live and taking real customer orders.
Full index12 projects
02Capabilities
I do the whole thing.
Most people on a project are one link in a chain. I have had to be the whole chain — which is why I know where every link breaks.
A
AI systems
- Business-process automation
- Multi-step agent pipelines
- AI content generation at volume
- Scheduling + auto-publishing
- LLM + API orchestration
B
Engineering
- Frontend and backend from zero
- Apps and platforms from scratch
- Payments, auth, integrations
- Hosting, domains, deployment
- Ongoing operation and support
C
Design
- UX/UI for web, mobile and hardware
- Design systems
- Brand identity and brandbooks
- Graphic design
- Corporate apparel design
D
Growth
- SEO, technical and content
- Google and Meta advertising
- Content strategy and planning
- Analytics and reporting
03The lab
Where the AI work actually lives.
Automation, generated content, identity and the production files behind it. Swipe.
Content factory
An n8n pipeline: a GPT agent researches, writes and parses its own output, Airtable holds state, publishing runs on a timer. No human in the loop.
Brandbooks
Brand, logo, colour, type and style rules built as a document a team can work from — not a mood board.
Identity to interface
A foundation's brandbook carried through into sitemap, desktop and mobile screens in one file.
Apparel
Corporate and merch design — colourways, placements and production-ready mock-ups for every cut.
Content systems
Campaign design as a system: items, posts, stories and a presentation deck from one visual language.
04Off the clock
My other job has no deadline.
I hold a Ukrainian volunteer certificate. At home, this is my main work.
I drive to positions near the front — towns, villages, schools, universities, and the positions themselves — with humanitarian and psychological support for soldiers and for civilians who never left. Recently I went out with two foreign volunteers who had spent fifteen years in Afghanistan. We crossed the Mykolaiv region unit by unit, two kilometres from the fighting.
I also travel abroad with a volunteer team to talk about Ukraine — what is happening to people here, and what volunteering under war actually looks like — so that people there can back the country with money and with whatever else they have.
Faces are covered for the safety of the people in them.
05What is next
I will learn anything to do this work.
I am 21. Four years with websites, two with AI. What I want next is to go much deeper into artificial intelligence — and I am completely open to learning a new field from zero in order to work in it.
That is not a line on a CV. Every project in the index above was something I did not know how to do on the day it started. I learned it because someone was waiting on the result.
Give me the hard one. I would rather be the person who figures it out than the person who already knew.
English — workingUkrainian — nativeRemoteRelocationFull-timeContract
Let us work.
I answer fast, in English, and I will tell you straight if something is outside what I can do.