Anton Yarkov

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Senior Software Engineer and Engineering Director at Access Softek Inc

Barcelona, ES

Joined Apr 2015

https://optiklab.github.io/

About

I contribute to codebase and manage a great team of software engineers distributed over the world. Building a first-class award-winning online banking solution. Doing both software engineering and people management, work on software architecture and driving best practices in our team.

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Developing Low-Cost AI-Based Similarity Search

A simple AI-powered chatbot that work a contextual search engine powered by RAG and essentials concepts of AI like vector embeddings and cosine similarity search.

October 6, 2025

· 2,255 Views

NFT Wallets Unleashed: A Data Structures and Application Design Journey

Exploring world of NFTs and blockchain while prototyping wallet CLI application with efficient data structures using C# and .NET Core.

January 30, 2024

· 3,034 Views · 1 Like

Algorithmic Alchemy: Exploiting Graph Theory in the Foreign Exchange

Following my previous endeavors, I keep playing with graphs and graph traversal algorithms in searching for a way for profitable currency exchange.

January 3, 2024

· 3,311 Views · 4 Likes

Crafting Mazes

Inspired while creating a maze map for the Wall-E project, follow this tutorial to explore ways to algorithmically generate mazes using Graph Theory.

September 6, 2023

· 3,471 Views · 4 Likes

Exploring Path-Finding Algorithms for Wall-E

I previously showed a way to unify implementation of graph-traversal algorithms. Now, I make it more visually appealing and look into the performance differences.

August 11, 2023

· 3,588 Views · 3 Likes

Universal Implementation of BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, and A-Star Algorithms

Well-known algorithms BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, and A-Star are essentially variations of the same algorithm. I will demonstrate that with actual implementation.

August 8, 2023

· 4,859 Views · 6 Likes

Learn With Practice: API Versioning Snags

In this article, review the practical approaches in API versioning, the pros and cons, as well as some basic reasons for API versioning.

November 29, 2022

· 4,525 Views · 1 Like

GraphQL Trade-Offs

I have listed a few GraphQL hidden rocks that you should keep in mind when you choose a way to build your new API.

Updated November 18, 2022

· 4,150 Views · 4 Likes

Starting Communities of Practice in Your Organization

Everything you need to know about the concept of Community of Practices and how to engage collaborations in multiple Agile teams across the organization.

May 18, 2021

· 11,160 Views · 3 Likes

Implementing Single Sign-on Integration With SAML Providers Using C#

I provide a working example and step-by-step explanation on how to integrate using SAML 2.0 - the most popular integration protocol for SSO.

March 23, 2021

· 14,017 Views · 3 Likes