Websites
A website for your business, a personal portfolio, or a storefront. Designed around what visitors need to find and what you need to manage.
Independent software development
Great ideas
deserve to
be built.
GilGil builds websites, web apps, and internal tools for individuals and businesses. It’s also the home for our own products.
What we build
A new project or an existing one that needs attention.
Web applications
Prototypes, customer-facing products, and existing apps that need more work. Interface development, backend services, and the connections between them.
Automation & internal tools
Dashboards, integrations, and tools for the work your team does every day. Useful when spreadsheets and manual handoffs start getting in the way.
I started GilGil to build software for clients and give my own projects a home.
My background is in frontend and full-stack engineering. At Yandex, I lead the Pickup Point Platform and build developer tools. At Farcana, I worked on real-time search, streaming chat, and frontend architecture.
GilGil brings that experience to websites, applications, and the less visible tools a business depends on.
Previous work
Projects from Ali’s employment and collaborations.
Farcana AI Search
Professional work at Farcana
Built a real-time search interface using React, WebSockets, and TanStack Query. Related work at Farcana included streaming chat and a shared component library.
Read about the workNeko Launcher
Group project with Michitta
Engineering for a Minecraft desktop launcher built with React, Tauri, and Rust, including local-file integrity checks.
Read about the workVAULT
Team project · Development paused
Founder and engineer on a gaming and community app. Work covered frontend performance, backend services, and deployment.
Read about the workWorking together
Start with what you need. The first conversation helps us decide what’s worth building and how to approach it.
- Scope and estimate
- We discuss what you need, agree on a scope, and work out the budget and timeline before development starts.
- Development and feedback
- You get working versions to review as the project progresses. We agree on changes as they come up.
- Launch and handover
- We deploy the finished work, document how it runs, and agree on any ongoing support you need.
Our own projects
Alongside client work, GilGil is a home for independent products and future businesses. Each will have its own name and identity, with GilGil as the parent.
Our product directory →What do you
need to build?
Tell us what you have in mind, who it’s for, and where you’re starting from.