I design and ship AI products, backed by 19 years supporting the telecom platforms behind Europe's largest mobile operators.
A help desk for rental agencies. An AI bot takes tenants' repair requests on Telegram and WhatsApp, sorts them by urgency, and hands them to agents in 12 languages.
A booking assistant for car repair workshops in Spain. An AI bot takes the customer's problem on Telegram or WhatsApp, checks real capacity, and books the job straight onto the owner's board. Every garage also gets its own online booking page, so car owners can pick a slot themselves. Live as a public demo garage.
A tool I built for myself to plan a house's ground floor before the concrete screed goes down, when every pipe and cable position stops being changeable.
A drag-and-drop plan of a house plot. It measures clearances to the boundary, the nearest object and a power-line zone as you move things, then writes a structured prompt so an AI can review the layout.
React, Vite. Personal tool, in use.
A Claude Code agent that runs scheduled market routines, keeps its own memory files, and has to pass hard risk rules before it can suggest a trade. It stays read-only while its judgement is tested.
Claude Code, shell, Python. In testing.
A drone survey company I co-founded. We benchmarked open-source photogrammetry tools per phase and staged the winners into a bash-scripted pipeline, turning aerial photos into a huge-resolution orthophoto, a dense point cloud locked to the site's real-world coordinates, and, when a sale called for it, a textured 3D view of the plot.
Building AI products with Claude
TenantDesk, TallerDesk, a floor planner, a landscape planner and a trading agent, designed, tested and shipped in my own time.
Technical Manager, HCLTech
Same telecom platform support work, after HCLTech took over HPE's business in December 2024. My continuous service dates from April 2007.
Co-founder, developer, SCANUM
Drone photogrammetry for engineering surveys, built with a co-founder.
Field Technical Support Consultant, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Support engineer for OpenCall intelligent-network platforms — SS7 and SIGTRAN, CAMEL, MAP, DIAMETER, SIP — for operators including Deutsche Telekom, O2 UK, Telecom Italia and Telia. The first three years were delivery, installing systems across Europe and West Africa with heavy travel. I taught internal courses to HPE engineers in Italy and Romania.
Field support engineer, New Systems Telecom
Commissioned switching, transport and IP equipment for the two largest Russian mobile operators. Travelled to more than 20 Russian cities.
PC and network technician, technical writer, sales
Started as a PC and network technician, then moved into technical writing and sales. CCNA in 2003–2004.
I build AI-driven software and tools for the engineering problems in front of me. Write to me at anton.pikalov@gmail.com or find me on LinkedIn.