Hey 👋

I am Kirill Platonov, a software consultant, and indie hacker. I specialize in building and scaling SaaS products and Shopify Apps with Ruby on Rails. I am currently freelancing and building my portfolio of 5 Shopify Apps. If you would like to work with me, send me an email.

Newest Posts

• Detecting Shopify theme version in Rails (Sep 22, 2021)

• Testing Shopify Apps in Rails: Part 1 (Aug 17, 2021)

• Prevent opening Rails remote links in new tab (Apr 26, 2019)

• Simple reverse proxy on Mac with nginx (Nov 12, 2017)

• Moving AWS EC2 instance to another region (Nov 12, 2017)

My Shopify Apps

• FAST Bulk Price Editor: Simple and reliable price editor for Shopify.

• FAST Product Color Swatch: Link products of different colors using swatches.

Client Work

• Returns For Sale: Essential Shopify App for returns liquidation via drip discount. I helped with migration to Turbolinks & JWT, resolved bugs, speed issues, and implemented new features.
• Cook Smarts: Lifesaving meal planning service. I revived their old Ruby on Rails app. Made a full redesign and implemented a huge list of long waited features. A lot of work and a lot of happy users!
• Faculty of Skills: Online soft skills training platform. I participated in platform development and built the new hybrid mobile app with React-Native and Turbolinks.
• Busfor: The largest bus ticket selling platform in Eastern Europe acquired by BlaBlaCar. As a team leader and later CTO I participated in Ruby on Rails monolith development and built a mobile app with React-Native.

Open Source

• Polaris ViewComponents: ViewComponents for Polaris Design System.
• Hotwire Livereload: Automatically reload Turbo on views changes.
• Shopify Graphql: Less painful way to use Shopify Graphql API in Ruby.
• Shopify Hotwire Sample: A sample of the next-gen SSR Shopify app.
• Dirty Form: Tiny JS library to track unsaved form changes.
• Ruby Proxy Manager: My first OSS gem to rotate proxies in parsers/bots.