I'm a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience in financial infrastructure and mainframe systems, specializing in:

• SEPA payments processing
• COBOL, CICS, DB2-based enterprise systems
• High-volume transaction processing
• Banking-grade reliability & batch systems
• Legacy system modernization in financial environments

Alongside my day job, I actively build modern SaaS products and digital ecosystems across travel, SEO, and AI.

Mission-critical mainframe systems by day — scalable internet products by night.

• Mainframe engineering (COBOL, CICS, DB2)
• SEPA payment systems
• Financial infrastructure & batch processing
• Core banking reliability systems
• Performance-critical enterprise applications

• https://chasingwhereabouts.com/
• https://letsgogermany.com/
• https://thevenicepass.com/
• YouTube: https://youtube.com/chasingwhereabouts

• https://kreatorlane.com/

A growing platform focused on:

• Creator discovery
• Affiliate & influencer workflows
• Outreach automation
• Conversion tracking systems
• Product-led growth experimentation

I've built 30+ experimental and production tools across:

SEO & Growth Systems

• Backlink Monitor / Checker
• Sitemap Extractor
• SEO Flow tools
• URL Shortener systems
• Hashtag & content generators

AI & Automation

• Email Forge AI
• CW AI Tools
• Content generation pipelines
• Podcast & blog automation systems

Developer Security & DevOps

• SECflow — zero-cost security scanning for AI-driven repos (secrets, dependency vulns, custom rules) with AI-ready fix reports. Install with npm i -g secflow → https://github.com/imsankz/SECflow
• SeoFlow — AI-powered SEO pipeline for any content site (audit, internal linking, content gen, GSC). Programmatic SEO without the SaaS lock-in. Install with npm i -g seoflow → https://github.com/imsankz/seoflow
• BacklinkFlow — open-source alternative to Submitator/ListingBott ($29–499). Submit your product to 1,123 vetted directories with Playwright automation + AI-tailored copy + proof-of-submission reports. $0, your own AI endpoint. → https://github.com/imsankz/backlinkflow

Travel & Utility Tools

• Visa calculators (Schengen, etc.)
• Itinerary generators
• Packing / budget / travel planners
• Location-based discovery tools

WordPress & Plugins

• Map plugins
• Checklist systems
• Weather / travel insights plugins
• Content automation plugins

• COBOL
• CICS
• DB2
• JCL
• VSAM
• Mainframe tooling & batch systems

• Node.js
• Python
• React
• TypeScript / JavaScript
• PHP (WordPress ecosystem)

• APIs & integrations
• Web automation & scraping
• SaaS architectures
• Cloud deployments (lightweight systems)

• Scaling KreatorLane into a full creator growth platform
• Expanding travel ecosystems into structured SaaS products
• Building SEO + automation systems for content scaling
• Exploring AI-assisted product workflows
• Improving system design across both legacy + modern stacks

• https://kreatorlane.com/
• https://chasingwhereabouts.com/
• https://letsgogermany.com/
• https://thevenicepass.com/
• https://github.com/imsankz/SECflow
• https://github.com/imsankz/seoflow
• https://github.com/imsankz/backlinkflow

Like the open-source tools? Buy me a coffee — every coffee funds more free tools.

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/imsankz/

• Open to discussions around:

  • Payments systems & mainframe engineering
  • SaaS architecture
  • Creator economy tools
  • SEO + automation systems
  • Travel-tech ecosystems