Ivan AfanasyevINDEPENDENT BUILDER
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OPERATIONS MINDSET. ENGINEERING DIRECTION.

Business logic.Human context.AI products.

I’m Ivan — an operations leader learning to build practical AI systems. From understanding the process to shaping what comes next.

EXPERIMENT 001
THE CONTINUOUS LOOP
HIGGSFIELD
GENERATIVE STUDY
SCROLL TO EXPLOREBASED IN BALI · OPEN TO REMOTE COLLABORATIONPORTFOLIO / 2026
CURRENT EXPLORATIONS

AI-assisted development ✳ Workflow automation ✳ Harness engineering

01 / SELECTED WORK

Ideas into interfaces.
One build at a time.

A working website, a workflow concept,
and the foundations I’m building next.

01 — PERSONAL PLATFORM PORTFOLIO BUILD

A personal website shaped with Codex, original Higgsfield imagery, and interactions you can actually explore.

Art directionAI-assisted developmentMotion
02 — OPSFLOWIN DEVELOPMENT

A learning project for turning incoming requests into structured, reviewable next steps. Explore the concept in the lab below.

n8nProcess designAI engineering
03 / UP NEXTHarness Kit A foundation for controlled agents.PLANNED

A planned reusable kit for agent tools, permission boundaries, evaluation, and traces. Part of my learning roadmap; not a released product.

Explore the control-loop concept ↘

02 / THE INTERACTIVE LAB

A useful system knows
when to stop.

Select a request. Follow the decisions.
See why the output needs a human.

OPSFLOW / CONTROL-LOOP CONCEPTLOCAL SIMULATION · NO AI API CALLS

“Order OF-104 is two days late. Please help the customer get an update.”

Illustrative data. A small, rule-based demo of validation, routing, and human review.

02 / FOLLOW THE TRACE

  1. 01
    Read the requestIdentify the input and context
  2. 02
    Validate the detailsCheck required information
  3. 03
    Choose the routePrepare a bounded next action
  4. 04
    Keep a human in controlReview before external action

03 / INSPECT THE OUTPUT

AWAITING INPUT
{
  "status": "ready",
  "next_step": "run_workflow"
}

Run an example to see the decision and its boundary.

Ivan Afanasyev in a thoughtful seated pose
IVAN AFANASYEVBALI, INDONESIA

03 / THE PERSON BEHIND THE PROCESS

Before the tools,
there’s the problem.

I’ve led operations, launched branches, and connected teams across construction, property development, and FMCG.

That work taught me to ask the useful questions: Who owns the next step? What information is missing? How do we know it worked?

Now I’m bringing that perspective into AI engineering — learning Python, building with n8n and Codex, and exploring how to make agents observable and controlled.

Explore my background

BUSINESS EXPERIENCE.
A BUILDER’S CURIOSITY.

04 / THE FOUNDATION

Real operations.
Transferable perspective.

Business experience that informs
the systems I’m learning to build.

2025 — 2026SWOI Chief Operating Officer · Property development

Coordinated commercial, construction, and finance teams in a company of 70+ people, including contractors. Introduced structured payment approvals and developed an English-speaking agent sales channel.

MAY 2025 — JUL 2026
2024 — 2025ISK PROFI Executive Director · Construction production

Introduced ownership, input requirements, and internal SLAs. Managed sales, production, procurement, and project economics.

3 weeks → 1 week

From a client request to a cost estimate.
A process improvement, before my AI engineering work.

MAR 2024 — MAR 2025
2017 — 2024OSHI Group Procurement Manager → Branch Director

Launched branches and connected sales, procurement, warehousing, and logistics. Led operations across two branches serving 500+ clients, with a team of up to 40.

MAY 2017 — MAR 2024

05 / START A CONVERSATION

GOOD SYSTEMS START WITH GOOD QUESTIONS.

Let’s build
what’s next.

Have a process to rethink, a product to explore,
or a question about what I’m building?

Find me on Telegram @ivan_afsv ↗

CASE STUDY / PERSONAL PLATFORM

This website.
From brief to browser.

Original amber glass loop generated for the portfolio

The brief

A personal platform connecting real operations experience with a new direction in AI engineering.

My contribution

I defined the audience, content, and creative direction, directed iterations, and used Codex for implementation.

The build

Original Higgsfield art, responsive HTML and CSS, local workflow interactions, keyboard navigation, and a motion pause control.

Current status

A personal platform for projects, experiments, and ongoing learning.

LEARNING PROJECT / IN DEVELOPMENT

OpsFlow.
Make the next step clear.

Incoming requests often lack an owner, enough context, or a clear definition of done. OpsFlow is my learning project for exploring that problem.

Planned direction

Structure requests, validate information, route the next step, and keep consequential actions under human review.

Current work

Practising n8n workflows, data handling, and branching. The lab below is a local concept demonstration, separate from the n8n project.

What I want to verify

Can the workflow identify missing information? Can it stop instead of guessing? Is the trace understandable?

Built toward

Python, APIs, evaluation, and a reusable Harness Kit are in the roadmap. This is not a production service.