I am—Adám Arutyunov

Developer, teacher and lecturer, traveler.

I’ve been programming all my life, and for the last five years — web products primarily. The area of my expertise and key focus of my work is automation of design and creation processes.

I love creating new things, thinking ahead and applying engineering agility.

In 2025 I am based in Amsterdam.

Short autobio Switch to Russian

Featured projects

Potokus

2021–2024

Technology that turns static media files into an endless interactive stream. I was a lead developer, designer and tech lead for the project at Art. Lebedev Studio. I designed technical architecture, player, widget system, schedule management interface, algorithm for its generation and the interface for content assembly.

Potokus has won four Tagline Awards.

Potokus: Stories Official announcement

Fokus

2022–2024

A new generation presentation maker. I was a lead developer, designer and tech lead with the project at Art. Lebedev Studio. I created the product architecture, system of codification and automatic slide layout, algorithm of user’s scrolling processing, self-written WYSIWYG content editor, system of automatic font size selection and the logic of teams billing.

Fokus has won four Tagline Awards.

Fokus Official announcement

Timestripe 3.0

2024

A comprehensive instrument for organizing work and life. It connects daily tasks with long-term objectives, enabling project, team, knowledge, and time management. As a front-end developer for version 3.0, I contributed to creating a new, expansive calendar for task overview and developed new sections for teams and their members.

Timestripe ProductHunt launch page

Setka

2022–

An educational platform where you can learn how to design with code. Launched together with generative artist Ivan Dianov. We made and now sell a generative design course and write universal tools for generating beautiful images. We host the media, post free tutorials, workshops with experts and algorithm breakdowns.

Setka: Stories Official website Telegram channel

Dodo Design Terminal

2023–2024

A system of automatic layout design for Dodo Brands restaurants. The system delivers print-ready layouts to all franchisees on each marketing cycle, substituting actual prices, navigation elements, addresses and legal information. I developed the backend of the product and created integrations with Dodo Brands corporate information system, DodoIS.

App in Dodo internal marketplace Product landing page

Nikolay Ironov 2.0

2021–2022

AI-powered brand identity maker from Art. Lebedev Studio put-up to create unique logos and identity in a blink of an eye. I interned on the project and then participated in the deployment of the second version as a backender.

Official announcement

I sometimes run public seminars, give talks and lectures:

▶ Potokus. The technologyMoscow, 2023

Fokus. The technologyMoscow, 2024

▶ Lecture on Potokus on HolyJS conferenceSaint Petersburg, 2023

All Seminars Call in for Speaking

Some of the speeches are chopped up into compact and revealing stories.

Potokus. Gen Z comes down on everything

Setka. HTML and CSS basics in 10 minutes

Setka. Hypotrochoids

Potokus. Effects and transitions

All Stories

To the Telegram channel I am—Adam Arutyunov about my professional path, career development, traveling, as well as updates and insights.

To the Telegram channel No, I’m not crazy with outlooks and abstract philosophical reflections.

I am an aspiring digital nomad and traveler. As of 2025, I have visited about twenty-five countries.

Follow me on Instagram: there are plenty of beautiful photos and stories;
Subscribe to my YouTube channel: there are streams with travel stories and some other stuff.