Hi, I'm Dan Labkovsky.

Self-taught full-stack developer — 35 years old, with 20 years of shipping across a bunch of different stacks. Based in Berlin, happy to relocate.

I've had a computer in front of me since I was about five. By fourteen, I landed my first summer job at a computer hardware store. At fifteen, after a brief stint with Photoshop and design, I started my coding journey—beginning with HTML and CSS, then building backends with PHP, MySQL, and shared Linux hosting.

For a long stretch I was a one-man crew, building and running sites for clients and taking on various freelance projects in Israel: Masa Aher, buses.co.il, a few e-commerce shops, WordPress builds, and a larger app on CodeIgniter. Frontend, backend, database, DevOps—I had a chance to play with all of it. Since then I've kept widening the net: Angular, React Native apps, a Windows app in Electron, serverless and headless setups, and the TypeScript stack I work in now.

These days I build full-stack with Angular, NestJS, and PostgreSQL. I pick things up quickly: hand me a stack I've never seen and I'll be useful in it within a week.

My most recent role at Pariton.AI is the clearest read on how I work. There I expanded heavily into Google Cloud (GCP), DevOps, observability, and Kubernetes (K8s). They sent me off with a top reference:

"Particularly noteworthy are his sharp grasp and his ability to get up to speed on even complex technical problems in no time and develop robust, clean solutions."

What I like building

  • Beautiful, fast, responsive web apps — interfaces that feel instant and get out of the way.
  • Software where the AI does real work—actual pipelines, not just wrappers.
  • Tools that take the boring, repetitive parts of a job off your plate.
  • Personal projects with range, from a home Linux server to small apps that fix some daily annoyance, and a gallery for my dad's hippo collection.

Away from the keyboard I hike, travel, follow the NBA, and keep up with where tech and science are heading.

Currently based in Berlin. Single and happy to relocate.

Full-Stack Developer — Pariton.AI GmbH, Berlin

Oct 2025 – Jun 2026 · Full-time · First engineering hire

First engineering hire at a small Berlin AI company. With one other developer I owned the full stack: Angular on the front, NestJS and PostgreSQL behind it, plus the async processing and integrations between them. Test-driven with unit and Playwright end-to-end tests, shipped through CI/CD, running on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with ArgoCD.

Patent-discovery pipeline. I built an n8n workflow that finds newly published patents, scores them with the TRIZ method, runs freedom-to-operate checks, breaks the good ones into work packages, and outputs finished PDF reports with generated imagery. Work that used to take an analyst days now runs on its own.

  • E-commerce analytics — sales from several platforms pulled into one dashboard with clear breakdowns.
  • Internal tools — smaller full-stack web apps, admin screens, and a Windows desktop app in Electron.
  • Observability — Grafana, SigNoz and Langfuse on our cluster to watch metrics, traces and LLM calls.

Stack: TypeScript · Angular · NestJS · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Helm · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · Docker · Grafana · SigNoz · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · Langfuse · Playwright · n8n · GCP · Stytch

Read the full recommendation letter (PDF) →

DevOps / Platform Engineer — Sea Web Solutions

2023 – 2025 · Remote

Cloud-infrastructure company running managed Kubernetes platforms for SaaS teams. I operated and scaled production workloads on Google Kubernetes Engine — Helm charts, ingress, autoscaling, secrets, zero-downtime rolling deployments — and automated CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code with Docker, GitHub Actions, and GitOps across multiple client environments.

Full-Stack & Mobile Developer — W.S.O Apps

2020 · Remote

Product studio building cross-platform mobile apps and the APIs behind them. I built and shipped React Native apps from prototype through app-store release, and developed the Node.js REST APIs, authentication, and background services powering them.

Where it started: IT and hardware in Israel

2006 – 2017 · Israel

Freelance web work from my teens (Masa Aher, buses.co.il, themodel.co.il and others), leading a hospital-wide switch from paper to a centralized electronic system at Ha'Emek hospital with John Bryce, Software Engineering at Ben-Gurion University, and a stretch managing the Ivory computer store in Nazareth.

What I build on the side

Ongoing

What I tinker with when nobody's paying me to:

  • DanLabs.net — this site. Plain JavaScript and a hand-written canvas particle engine, no frameworks.
  • A GameMaker game — a small, finished title built in GameMaker Studio 2.
  • React Native & p5.js — mobile apps and little creative-coding experiments.
  • lad-art.com — my mom's painting gallery, rebuilt more times than I can count.
  • A home Linux server — my old PC, now self-hosting odds and ends, including a stock-screener app I built; I reach it over Tailscale and keep taking it apart.

In my last role at Pariton.AI, I worked with this stack day to day:

Stack: TypeScript · Angular · NestJS · Node.js · PostgreSQL · Kubernetes · Helm · ArgoCD · GitHub Actions · Docker · Grafana · SigNoz · Prometheus · OpenTelemetry · Langfuse · Playwright · n8n · GCP · Stytch and more.

Some of my broader experience includes:

Frontend

  • HTML5 ●●●
  • CSS3 / SCSS ●●●
  • Angular ●●●
  • TypeScript ●●●
  • JavaScript (ES6+) ●●●
  • RxJS ●●●
  • React ●●
  • NgRx ●●
  • Canvas API / p5.js ●●

Backend

  • NestJS ●●●
  • Node.js ●●●
  • Testing (unit, Playwright E2E) ●●●
  • REST API design ●●●
  • Stytch ●●●
  • PHP / CodeIgniter ●●
  • Auth (JWT, OAuth2) ●●
  • GraphQL

Databases

  • PostgreSQL ●●
  • MySQL ●●
  • TypeORM ●●
  • SQL (indexing, migrations) ●●
  • Redis

DevOps & Cloud

  • ArgoCD (GitOps) ●●●
  • Docker / Compose ●●●
  • Kubernetes / GKE ●●
  • GCP ●●
  • Helm ●●
  • GitHub Actions / CI ●●
  • Terraform

Observability

  • SigNoz ●●●
  • Grafana ●●
  • OpenTelemetry ●●
  • Prometheus

AI / ML

  • Langfuse ●●
  • LLM APIs ●●●
  • n8n agentic workflows ●●●
  • RAG, embeddings, vector DBs ●●●
  • Prompt engineering ●●●

Tools

  • Figma / Stitch (Google Labs) ●●●
  • Git / GitHub / GitLab ●●
  • Linux / Bash ●●
  • VS Code / Cursor / Antigravity ●●
  • Photoshop ●●
  • Postman ●●

Mobile & Desktop

  • Expo ●●●
  • React Native ●●
  • Electron for Windows
  • Kotlin
  • GameMaker Studio

Languages

  • Hebrew Fluent
  • Russian Fluent
  • English Fluent
  • German A2 → B1

Contact

Dan Labkovsky

Full-stack developer, looking for my next team. Let's talk.

Berlin · remote, hybrid or onsite in Germany and the EU · happy to relocate