01 — Services
Technical direction for systems that have to hold.
We lead the engineering on hard problems: architecture, performance, applied AI, large-scale refactors and migrations. Senior-only, hands-on, embedded in your team.
- ArchitectureDistributed systems, data modelling, API design.
- PerformanceProfiling, query and render optimization, scale.
- Applied AIRecommendation engines, semantic and vector search, embeddings, local-LLM and generative pipelines.
- Front platformsVue 3 at senior level, design systems, tooling.
- Refactors & migrationsUntangling legacy without stopping the line.
- Management & hiringBuilding and running engineering teams: technical direction, hiring and interviews, hands-on code audits, mentoring.
02 — The founder
Run by a founder, hands-on.
Sokod is Steeve Ortuani, building software since 2007. Ten years founding and running his own profitable community platforms solo, then CTO of a 15-person engineering team, now Founder & CTO of City Map 3D. A hands-on operator who builds and ships, not an advisor on the sidelines.
Full background03 — Selected work
Lead role — migrations, architecture, algorithms.
- Tech Lead / Frontend Architect · since 2024
Hands-on Tech Lead on a cybersecurity-governance SaaS. Owned the full Vue 2→3 migration strategy — Webpack→Vite, mixins→composables, Vuex→Pinia — built the design system from scratch, and enforced strict TypeScript and linting in CI. Plus technical hiring and day-to-day mentoring.
- Recommendation engine · 2 months
Designed and built the recommendation engine for a short-video MVP (TikTok-style feed). From each user's watch stats, computed interest centroids with k-means over video embeddings, then blended several ranking strategies through a weighted "mixing desk" — each contributing a tunable share of the feed: trending, content near your interest clusters, and collaborative picks (what's hot among look-alike users).
- Tech Lead / Frontend Architect · 15 months
Led the front-end of an AI visual-inspection platform — computer vision that flags manufacturing defects straight off the production line — re-architecting it from a Vue 2 MPA to a Vue 3 SPA, end to end: file architecture, full design overhaul, Cypress test strategy, and a cross-disciplinary feature with the product and hardware teams. Ran the technical interviews and trained my own front-end successor. Vue/TS front, Python/FastAPI back.
More references on request.
04 — Products
City Map 3D
A proprietary real-time 3D platform built on OpenStreetMap data, running on a distributed system architecture. 1.09 billion rows in database, ~85k lines of code, operated in production.
- Real-time 3D engineCustom Three.js + GLSL engine — post-processing (SSAO, fog, color grading), cascaded shadow maps, sun and moon positioned astronomically.
- Rendered at scale28M trees and 4.6M streetlamps drawn in the browser through GPU instancing, a spatial quadtree and frustum culling.
- Semantic marker searchUser queries embedded by a local LLM, matched against pre-computed category embeddings, vector-ranked, then resolved to nearby points of interest with PostGIS.
05 — Sokod Labs
Internal R&D.
DesignSystemGenerative branding pipeline: a one-line brief becomes logo, palette, tokens and components — fully local (FLUX + LLM, GPU-assisted). It generated the Sokod mark above and the City Map 3D assets.
BeansWatchDesktop app to monitor and operate Beanstalkd queues — the queue that also powers City Map 3D.
NeoTradingAlgorithmic crypto trading platform. Built and operated in-house.
Tools and experiments, built in-house.
06 — Contact