Turning an article into a watchable video was a manual editing job measured in hours, which meant publishers simply did not do it. A Go pipeline that parses the page, scripts it with an LLM behind a three-provider routing layer, assembles scenes from stock, generated and templated assets, then renders through After Effects and FFmpeg across a fleet of AWS workers fed by SQS — spread wide because a single render node was nowhere near fast enough — with a Vue editor over the top for anyone who wants the last word.

Air cargo paperwork moved on paper between airlines, warehouses and the federal customs service — every handoff a place to lose a day. A PHP/PostgreSQL platform speaking IATA CIMP, SITA, ARINC and EDIFly Type B, with GOST-qualified digital signatures through CryptoPro and direct integration into the customs IT system — built with a team of four, then extended to a second country's customs regime.

Ad and content experiments needed backends that stayed available under spiky publisher traffic without degrading response times. Go and PHP microservices with Vue front ends, built around measurable request budgets and backpressure rather than optimistic caching, provisioned in Terraform and watched in Grafana.