I'm the second hire at Yutori, and the first product hire. I've built much of the product backend including durable workflows, user-facing APIs, and some more experimental agentic stuff I can't talk about yet :) I also solo full-stack'ed the early demos and initial data collection tooling.

Previously, I was the first employee at Nile, where I developed our initial product, introduced row-level security and wrote an HN-viral blog about it. When we pivoted to a tenant-aware database, I built our SQL parsing framework, worked on the Rust database sync engine, helped define the SDK experience, made CI go fast, and more.

Before Nile, I worked on API infra at Confluent and Madhive.

Outside of work, I'm a home-renowned chef 👨‍🍳 and salsa dancer 💃.

You can reach me at mpokryva@gmail.com.