Slavik Shynkarenko
$ whoami → slavik shynkarenko — engineering leader, builder
$ day_job → head of platform engineering @ autoscout24 × trader
$ side_quest → miri, a gpu-first programming language
$ status → building

Platforms by day. A language by night.

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01Day job

Platform engineering

I lead the Platform Engineering group at AutoScout24 & Trader — the team that builds the paved paths: developer experience, infrastructure, and the systems hundreds of engineers ship on every day.

The job is part architecture, part leadership, part diplomacy. When it works, nobody notices — deploys just flow.

  • adeveloper experience & paved paths
  • binfrastructure & reliability at scale
  • cleading leaders, growing teams

02Side quest — est. 2026

Miri, gpu-first

By night I'm building Miri — a programming language for the AI era. You write ordinary code; Miri compiles it to run across thousands of GPU cores at once instead of a handful of CPU cores in sequence.

Written in Rust, compiled with Cranelift, designed for the hardware we actually have now.

// homage to the mythbusters × nvidia paintball demo, 2008 — one nozzle vs 1,100 barrels. gpu people know.

03Recent writing

From the blog

001 How to Build a High-Performing Remote Engineering Team How to Build a High-Performing Remote Engineering Team 002 How Miri’s Compiler Works: From Source Code to Native Binary How Miri’s Compiler Works: From Source Code to Native Binary 003 Do We Need Unit Tests in 2026? Do We Need Unit Tests in 2026? 004 Why I’m Building a GPU-First Programming Language in 2026 Why I’m Building a GPU-First Programming Language in 2026 005 Platform Engineering in 2026: Key Trends & Shifts Platform Engineering in 2026: Key Trends & Shifts 006 Balancing Collaboration and Direction in Engineering Leadership Balancing Collaboration and Direction in Engineering Leadership

04Beyond work

Light & fire