# Yurii Liubchak

> **AI Lead at KNESS Group**, a large Ukrainian manufacturing company. I build production AI systems and run Telegram products used by millions of people. Creator of **fStik** (800K monthly users, the largest Telegram sticker platform) and **QuotLyBot** (80K+ groups). Winner of the **Telegram Mini App Contest 2023**. Based in Ukraine.

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## Links

- Website: https://lyubchak.com
- Short link: https://yuri.ly
- Email: hi@lyubchak.com
- Telegram: https://t.me/LyDev
- GitHub: https://github.com/LyoSU
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lyubchak/
- Blog: https://t.me/LyBlog

## What I'm doing

**Main work:** AI Lead at KNESS Group, where I lead AI and automation work. I build internal AI systems around company data and tools: document analysis, internal search, employee workflows and department-specific agents for HR, Legal and Accounting. I work on them from prototype to production and keep them running.

**Independent work:** I run fStik, QuotLy, Hortay and other Telegram products on my own infrastructure, and build Capka, an open-source AI workspace. Servers and databases are all on my own machines.

**Open for:** I also occasionally work with companies on AI and automation.

## Selected work

### Capka — self-hosted AI workspace

Every chat gets its own Linux sandbox and file storage. Agents run code, work with files and return finished artifacts. Multi-user, MCP, skills, durable background tasks. Open source, AGPL-3.0.

- https://capka.yuri.ly
- https://capka.vercel.app
- https://github.com/LyoSU/capka

### fStik — 800K monthly

The largest sticker platform on Telegram. Bot, site, Mini App and an Android app.

- https://t.me/fStikBot
- https://fstik.app
- https://github.com/LyoSU/fStikBot

### KNESS · AI — lead

Internal AI systems used in company workflows across HR, Legal, Accounting and other teams.

- https://kness.energy

### Hortay — Telegram channel reader

Open-source native Android app that reads Telegram channels as one chronological feed instead of a chat list. Jetpack Compose, Material 3, TDLib, 13 languages.

- https://github.com/LyoSU/hortay-android
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dev.lyo.hortay

### QuotLy — 80K groups

Turns any Telegram message into a clean quote image. Up to 48 000 messages per minute at peak.

- https://t.me/QuotLyBot
- https://github.com/LyoSU/quote-bot

### LyAdmin — group admin

Moderation, anti-spam, reputation infrastructure for serious Telegram communities.

- https://t.me/LyAdminBot

### LySupport — SaaS

A small SaaS for teams: tickets, routing, handoffs, all inside Telegram.

- https://t.me/LySupportBot

### LyBot — music

Search YouTube Music straight from Telegram, audio in original quality.

- https://t.me/LyBot

### LyOS — game

Multiplayer hacker simulator: attack, defend, upgrade. Built in evenings.

- https://t.me/LyOSBot

Plus dozens more in the archive.

## About

Started at twelve, editing uCoz sites with too much time on hand. Then came PHP, then VK bots, then the Telegram ecosystem I still live inside today.

Most of my public products grew out of Telegram. fStik and QuotLy together reached millions of users, and in 2023 I took **first place** in Telegram's Mini App Contest.

These days most of my work is around AI, infrastructure and automation, both at KNESS and in my own projects.

I still like building things myself and running them in production.

## How I build

- **TypeScript** on Node.js for most backend work
- **React / Next.js** on the frontend
- **Python** where it makes sense
- **Kotlin / Jetpack Compose** for native Android
- **Telegram** via Telegraf, grammY, TDLib, MTProto, Mini Apps
- **Data**: MongoDB, Postgres, Redis
- **Infra**: Linux, Docker, Sentry, all on my own boxes

## At a glance

- Users reached: millions
- Projects shipped: 150+
- Mini App Contest: #1 (2023)
- Based: Ukraine
- Role: **AI Lead — KNESS Group**