Paul PopovProduct & OperationsBuilderDesign

Strategy, systems, code, and whatever else it takes.

I'm Paul Popov. I run product and operations, and I build the software and systems behind them: full-stack applications from spec to deployment, designed properly.

If it needs to exist and work, I'll figure it out.

Available

Full-time roles and consulting

Perugia, Italy. Remote, happy to travel.

Selected work

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The Zabut the Splendid home page: an arched gold emblem above the name, set on warm stone.

HospitalitySambuca di Sicilia2026

A place to stay, eat, celebrate and rest in the Sicani hills of Sicily. I built the site in English, Italian and Turkish, and run the project's digital and IT setup and its local operations, from meetings with the municipality to property visits.

The AccuVol home page: a precision volumetric pump shown in a 3D viewer beside the headline Reinventing precision dosing technology.

AccuVol

Ongoing

EngineeringUK2024 to now

Precision volumetric pumps for regulated industries. I built and run the website, with its 3D product viewer and investor materials, wrote the CE self-certification documentation, and support fundraising: the pitch deck, meetings with VC funds, and bringing in an investment consultant.

The Tech-Plas home page: an injection mold being machined, with the headline From design to delivery, manufacturing under one roof.

ManufacturingIstanbul2026

Plastic injection molding with roots in 1976. A Turkish and English site built around the quote: a page for every sector, PDF catalogs, and a ready-made request for every product.

The francesco.network home page, split in two: Arrive anywhere, know someone on white, Fontana Maggiore on black.

francesco.network

Launching soon

NetworkEnglish and Italian2026

People and places worth knowing: restaurants, hotels, professionals and opportunities, filtered by type and destination. It opens as a split screen, with Fontana Maggiore on the other half.

The Fontana Maggiore home page: the headline Oltre l'assistenza legale beside the fountain in Piazza IV Novembre at sunset.

Law firmPerugia2026

A law and consulting studio on Piazza IV Novembre, working with a network of notaries, accountants and consultants. An Italian and English site, quiet and exact.

The Luhusati home page: a woman wearing moissanite earrings and a necklace, with the headline Born from a star.

Luhusati

New site

JewelleryShopify

Moissanite jewellery made in limited runs. The new Shopify store, plus the brand identity, an Airtable system for margins and pricing, and creative direction.

The Adaptonic home page: the headline Herbal extracts with integrity, framed by botanical illustrations.

Adaptonic

New site

Herbal extractsShopify

Small-batch herbal extracts from Massachusetts. A brand overhaul and a move from Square to a new Shopify store, with the product database and operations behind a catalog of more than 100 products.

The teaconf.org home page: TEAconf, the Triple Entry Accounting Conference, with links to the course, papers and the TEAtalks podcast.

TEAconf

Ongoing

ConferenceProduct & Operations Lead2024 to now

The Triple Entry Accounting conference. I run its technical side end to end: teaconf.org on Webflow with a large CMS, Airtable systems with automations across bases, the TEAtalks podcast, and the Foundation course, from dialogue scripts and recording to certificates issued with zero manual admin per learner.

Things I make

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Jet 9000: a white Gulfstream G650ER flying over a grey sea under the words Fly Europe.

Jet 9000

Browser flight simulatorIn progress

A flight simulator that runs in a browser tab, built on one rule: it should feel like flying the real jet, only simpler. Real terrain, real airports and live weather; a cockpit whose instruments follow how pilots actually place and read them.

Aircraft model by Luca Martina, CC BY.

The Ultrascript page: Finally, a teleprompter that just works, in white on black.

Ultrascript

Open source

A professional teleprompter in a single HTML file. Runs offline in the browser, scrolls the way the eye reads, and handles several speakers across Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. Code on GitHub.

The tally.ie page: The count, live and open for everyone, with an election picker.

tally.ie

Pilot 2027

Real-time tally verification for PR-STV elections, with a dashboard for every role in the count. Postgres, role-based access, migrations and a GitHub Actions workflow.

The Riccy page in blue: Agreements you own. Readable by humans, machines, and courts.

Riccy

Design study

Contracts that carry their own proof: the text, its hash and both parties' Ed25519 signatures in one package you own, verifiable offline. A working demo in the browser.

About

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I've worked across genuinely different worlds: simultaneous interpreting, luxury, real estate, e-commerce, Web3, an engineering startup and now hospitality. The thread running through all of it is the same: I make things work.

That range taught me to learn fast and pick up new tools with ease. I ship full-stack applications with AI tools, Claude and Codex, across the terminal, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Vercel, Cloudflare and Postgres, from build to production, including their design. Same approach I took with Webflow, Shopify and Airtable: learn it properly, then own it.

I care about getting things right without unnecessary complexity.

Outside of work: trail running, slow coffee, and growing alpine strawberries.

Languages
  • Russian native
  • Italian fluent
  • English fluent
  • Spanish, French, Greek intermediate
Education
  • Master in Fashion & Luxury Management LUISS Business School, 2017 to 2019
  • Bachelor in Advertising Communications Università per Stranieri di Perugia, 2012 to 2016
Certifications
  • CompTIA Security+
  • AWS Cloud Practitioner
  • Recorded Future Intelligence Fundamentals
  • Webflow Expert
  • Google Digital Marketing & E-commerce

Experience

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  1. 2026 to now

    Digital & Operations

    Zabut the Splendid

    Website, IT infrastructure and systems for a hospitality project in Sambuca di Sicilia; translation, municipal relations and property scouting.

  2. 2026 to now

    Food Tour Guide

    Oxy Rise

    Food and wine tours through Perugia's old town for international groups, in several languages.

  3. 2024 to now

    Product & Operations Lead

    TEAconf

    Own the technical infrastructure end to end: the Webflow site and its information architecture, Airtable systems with cross-base automations including the Malta event budget, the automated certification course, and the TEAtalks podcast.

  4. 2024 to now

    Product & Operations Consultant

    AccuVol

    A regulated engineering product: built the website, handled CE self-certification documentation, and support fundraising with the pitch deck, meetings with VC funds, and sourcing and onboarding an investment consultant.

  5. 2024 to now

    English Tutor

    Freelance

    One-to-one tutoring, with lessons planned around each student's level and goals.

  6. 2019 to now

    Freelance Consultant

    Digital, e-commerce, brand & product

    Web and e-commerce builds on Webflow, Shopify, WooCommerce and Square; brand strategy for Selected Projects Ltd in London; pitch decks; and my own products, built and shipped.

  7. 2023

    Solomeo Talent Academy

    Brunello Cucinelli

    Luxury training: product, styling, retail, visual merchandising, buying and CRM.

  8. 2022

    Real Estate Agent, Trainee

    Prima Immobiliare, Perugia

    Property scouting and listing, showings, and communication between buyers and sellers.

  9. 2015 to 2018

    Simultaneous Interpreter, English and Russian

    EUBC / AIBA, Assisi

    Live interpreting during international courses for boxing trainers, referees and judges, and the participants' point of reference throughout.

  10. 2012 to 2021

    Social media, marketing, interpreting

    Marla, Dempsey's, Key Business, IAAF

    Social media for Marla and Dempsey's Perugia, a marketing internship at Key Business, and interpreting at the IAAF World Challenge in Rieti.

Tools & skills

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Build & deploy

AI-assisted full-stack work in Next.js, React, Node and Postgres. Vercel, Cloudflare, Netlify, GitHub and GitHub Actions, Supabase, Neon.

Design

Interface and visual design for everything I build. Claude Design, Illustrator; brand, graphic and print assets.

Web & e-commerce

Webflow (Expert), Shopify, WooCommerce, Square, Squarespace, WordPress.

Automation & operations

Airtable, Zapier, Fillout, Certifier. Operational systems, documentation and data structure.

Media production

Remote recording with Riverside, video editing, Vimeo, iMovie, podcast production.

Marketing & brand

Pitch decks and presentations, including for fundraising. Branding, strategy, content, social media, digital marketing.

Contact

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Let's work together.

Available for full-time product and operations roles, and for consulting. Based in Perugia, working remotely, happy to travel.