Staff/Senior Software Engineer
17 years building and operating SaaS platforms, billing systems, and cloud infrastructure.
Work Experience
Worked across Billing, Performance Engineering, Ruby Architecture, and Incident Command.
Led several projects, mentored engineers.
Currently working on GitHub's payments and metered billing infrastructure.
Led the migration from bare-metal to AWS EKS, improving deployment reliability and enabling scalable CI/CD across the engineering organization.
Worked on new features and supported existing codebases written in Ruby and Elixir.
Worked on a project about gathering various metrics for books and articles published by the company.
Participated in the migration of the legacy Rails based application to Scala.
Built and operated production backend systems, data pipelines, and large-scale web applications across fintech and publishing.
Progressed from software engineer to senior/lead roles.
Technical skills
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Core stack
Go, Ruby/Rails, TypeScript/React, Terraform, Azure CosmosDB, MySQL, k8s - this is what I use day-to-day at GitHub.
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Other things I have production experience with
Clojure, Erlang, Elixir, Scala, Kotlin, C#, C | PostgreSQL, MongoDB | AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, Heroku
Education
Thesis: Statistical properties of cryptographic primitives.
Languages
- English - fluent
- German - intermediate (B2)
- Russian - native
- Portuguese - beginner (A2)