Who is Vlad Brakalo?
I'm Vlad Brakalo, legal name Vladyslav Brakalo, a senior AI engineer with 6+ years in IT, based in Poland and working through my registered sole proprietorship, AI Development Vladyslav Brakalo. I spent 2 years on the core team at Sellify AI as one of its first technical hires, building AI sales agents that outsold human reps at some of the largest pest control companies in the US. For the past 1.5+ years I've also been the contract senior AI engineer for a recruitment-AI SaaS. Today I embed with founder-led B2B SaaS companies and ship the AI feature into their product, with evals in CI and a handoff their own team runs.
Is Vlad Brakalo legit? Short answer: yes. Top Rated Plus on Upwork (top 3%) with a 100% Job Success Score, LinkedIn recommendations from the founders I worked with, and client results published on Sellify AI's own domain rather than mine.
The longer answer is this whole page. Every number below links to whoever holds it - Upwork, LinkedIn, GitHub, the VS Code Marketplace, Sellify AI's own case studies. Where a source is gated and you cannot check it without logging in, I say so instead of leaving you to find out.
- Name
- Vlad Brakalo
- Also known as
- Vladyslav Brakalo (legal name), VladBrok (GitHub, YouTube, X)
- Role
- Senior AI engineer, working fractionally - Claude Certified Architect (Anthropic)
- Certified
- Claude Certified Architect - Foundations, Anthropic, 27 July 2026 - a proctored exam sat through Pearson VUE
- Based
- Poland, working with clients worldwide
- Business
- AI Development Vladyslav Brakalo, a sole proprietorship registered in Poland
- Focus
- Production AI features for founder-led B2B SaaS: evals in CI, cost and latency, guardrails, and a handoff the client's team runs
The record
Is Vlad Brakalo legit? Here is the paper trail
None of these numbers are kept by me. Anthropic, Upwork, GitHub, and Microsoft each hold their own, and every card below opens the page that holds it.
Anthropic - Claude Certified Architect, issued 27 July 2026
Anthropic issues this credential on a proctored exam delivered through Pearson VUE, and Credly holds the record - so you can check it without taking my word for it. The full skill list is on my about page.
Upwork - profile stats, checked 26 July 2026
Upwork gates freelancer profiles to logged-in users and blocks automated crawlers, which is why no search engine or AI assistant finds these figures on its own, also why they are a dated snapshot rather than a live feed. Checked 26 July 2026.
GitHub and the VS Code Marketplace - mre/vscode-snippet
This is the part of my record I could not fake if I wanted to: GitHub keeps the commit history, the release log, and the timestamps, not me. The project's creator, Matthias Endler (CEO, corrode), reviewed the pull request that added the extension's backup system with "Looks good. Amazing work!" and merged it on 16 March 2024 - the comment is still on the PR. Two automated bots sit above me on that contributors graph, so read the claim as what it says: more commits than any other person. Counts checked 26 July 2026.
Private client work - volume and cadence
Almost all of that work sits in private client repositories, so GitHub counts it without exposing the code: you can see the cadence, not the contents. To check it, open my GitHub profile and pick the year above the contributions graph. I lead with active days rather than the raw total on purpose - a contribution count is easy to inflate and impossible for you to audit, while showing up 332 days out of 365 is the part that is actually hard to do.
The proof
Reviews and recommendations - open any of them
"If you would like a really responsible, serious, experienced guy, which is service minded, kind and polite... you will go for Vlad." - Ove André Remme
"Your patience... You were always communicative... You streamlined the whole process... Focused on solution rather than all the problems." - Ove André Remme
"Vlad has been incredible to work with. Very sharp and understands the intricacies and needs of our company. Have trusted him with important tasks, and he's always been able to get creative and deliver."
Source: LinkedIn
"I've worked with Vlad for almost 2 years on Sellify AI and he did an outstanding job. Vlad knows his craft well and was able to handle complex engineering tasks independently. He is quick to learn new things and adapts fast when requirements change (and in startups, they almost always change). I'm glad we had him on the team!"
Source: LinkedIn
"Vlad saw what I was trying to create before I'd even fully explained it. He just got it. If you're looking for someone who understands AI and applies it practically, without wasting time - he's the one."
Source: LinkedIn"Exceptional! Very happy with the result, highly recommend."
Source: Upwork"Hired Vladyslav to assist with creating and embedding a custom GPT on to our wordpress website. Easy to work with, prompt communication and skilled in his area of expertise."
Source: Upwork"Vladyslav went above and beyond!"
Source: Upwork
"Looks good. Amazing work!"
Source: GitHub code reviewOnly the Upwork cards carry stars, because Upwork attaches a rating to a review. LinkedIn recommendations and a code review on GitHub do not have one, so putting five stars on them would be me inventing the number.
Results you can verify
Named clients, numbers you can open yourself
The dollar figures are from Sellify AI's own published case studies; the engineering write-ups are my own client work. Every link goes off my site to the original source.
Sellify AI - customer results through the platform I helped build
My own client projects - walkthroughs, not slides
One person, one name
Vlad Brakalo and Vladyslav Brakalo are the same me
Vlad is what everyone calls me. Vladyslav is the legal name on my registered business - AI Development Vladyslav Brakalo, a sole proprietorship registered in Poland. That's why a couple of the Upwork reviews above say "Vladyslav": same person, legal name on the contract.
This page works because I keep one identity across every platform, so you can cross-check me instead of trusting a single page. Here's everywhere I am - open any of them and it's the same person, the same work.
LinkedIn · Upwork · YouTube · GitHub · X · Medium · F6S · Skool · Product Hunt · DevPost · Newsletter.
Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (Anthropic) on Credly
Credentials you can open: Claude Certified Architect - Foundations from Anthropic, earned through a proctored Pearson VUE exam, plus IBM certifications in Generative AI for Business Leaders & Executives and AI Agents with RAG. The full story is on my about page, and the common questions are in the FAQ.