Dima Barabash

I'm a product engineer based in Lisbon. I care about software craftsmanship: products that are pleasant to work with for engineers and users alike, because without a good developer experience, the user experience ends up mediocre too.

For more than 13 years I've written code and shipped products across the full stack, from the browser down to the database, whichever tools the problem asks for.

Since June 2025 I've been a senior product engineer at CourtCorrect, an AI platform for complaint and case management. This is where my focus is right now. I'm an AI product engineer: I take features from a rough problem statement through data model, LLM pipeline, and UI to production, and own them once they are live. Beyond my own features I set technical direction, raise the bar on how the team builds, and work with the founder on where the product goes next.

On the side I build nod, an AI notepad for Mac that listens locally — no meeting bots — and turns conversations into searchable memory. Before that I made Brifly, a small tool for async team communication, now paused.

From 2022 to 2025 I ran an independent consulting practice, working with clients from MMcKinsey (contracting on internal tooling) to a handful of YYC-backed startups, owning features end-to-end at the earliest, messiest stages, usually without much PM overhead to hide behind. The full history is in my CV.

I write notes and experiments here, mostly about the craft of building software, realtime and collaborative interfaces, and whatever I'm currently obsessed with.

If you read Ukrainian, I also run a Telegram channel where I write about all sorts of things: startups, engineering, and life around them.

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