Vasiliy Polyakov

• Email: job@vpolyakov.cv
• Website: vpolyakov.cv
• LinkedIn: invasy
• GitHub: invasy

Summary

• Software engineer (C++/Qt, Scala, Python) with over 10 years of experience in enterprise services development.
• Development automation specialist with a vast CI/CD and DevOps expertise.
• Collaborating with distributed teams in different software development stages.
• Constantly improving skills with new technologies and instruments.
• Passionate about efficiency and performance.
• GNU/Linux and FOSS enthusiast.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, NGENIX — Moscow, Russia (remote)

June 2023 – present

Tech stack: Python, Flask, FastAPI, OpenAPI, Starlette, SQLAlchemy, Lua, nginx, PostgreSQL, Consul, ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, GitLab CI, Kubernetes.

• Developed the central control plane for the edge platform: stateful Python service for managing business entities.
• Designed OpenAPI-driven REST APIs (Tornado, aiohttp, FastAPI) on PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy, Redis, Consul, Vault.
• Built event-driven audit logging and integration pipelines meeting regulatory compliance requirements.
• Maintained 140K-line codebase with 4,400+ automated tests, Prometheus monitoring, and Sentry error tracking.
• Managed project feature delivery, estimated and planned workload, coordinated with frontend, SRE, and platform teams.
• Mentored mid-level developers through code reviews, design reviews, and onboarding.

Lead Software Engineer, M.Video-Eldorardo — Moscow, Russia (remote)

Dec 2021 – Sept 2022

Tech stack: Scala, Akka, Lagom, Cassandra, Elastic Stack, SAP, GitLab CI, Kubernetes, microservices.

• Analyzed requirements and implemented architecture for new microservices.
• Collaborated with agile team, managed to enhance service robustness.
• Facilitated internal developers meetings to share ideas and knowledge.

Senior Software Engineer, Rostelecom IT — Perm, Russia

Jan 2019 – Dec 2021

Tech stack: C++, Qt, CEF, Scala, Oracle, GitLabCI, Tomcat, OpenShift, JMeter, Gatling.

• Developed high performance event-driven payment service with C++, Qt, CEF, OpenShift.
• Boosted service performance by redesigning event queues.
• Organized and implemented CI/CD pipelines to decrease deployment time from days to minutes.
• Initiated migration to blue-green deployment with extensive load testing.
• Planned tasks and facilitated meetings with distributed agile team.
• Redesigned documentation and knowledge base structure, saved hours of searching for answers.

Research Engineer, Perm State University — Perm, Russia

May 2018 – Dec 2018

Tech stack: C++, Fortran 90, CUDA, OpenMP, OpenMPI, OpenHPC, RHEL, Ganglia.

• Participated in research and development project for UEC-Aviadvigatel funded by Russian Foundation for Basic Research.
• Project result is a turbine engine computational aerodynamics model based on a proprietary numerical solver of Navier-Stokes equations.

Software Engineer, Stream (MTS) — Perm, Russia

Dec 2017 – May 2018

Tech stack: C++, STL, Boost, CMake.

• Developed in-house high performance service using C++, STL, Boost, Qt that allowed clients to commit payment transactions and view fiscal data.
• Optimized event matching algorithms to decrease server load by 21% on average.

Chief of Laboratory and Research Engineer, Perm State University — Perm, Russia

Oct 2012 – Dec 2017

Tech stack: C++, Fortran90, OpenMP, OpenMPI CUDA, Hadoop, Perl, Ruby on Rails, Redmine, RHEL.

• Researched and developed HPC applications (fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, linguistics).
• Tasks, projects, and people management.
• HPC clusters administration and maintenance.
• Popularization of science, public lectures, science events and festivals.

Education

Perm State University, BS in Applied mathematics and informatics — Perm, Russia

Sept 2007 – Aug 2013

Technologies

• C++: STL, Boost, Qt, CEF, CMake, Conan
• Scala: Akka, Cats, Lagom
• Python: Django, Flask, Connexion, asyncio, SQLAlchemy, Pydantic
• DB: PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Cassandra
• DevOps: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Ansible, Puppet, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, GNU Make, Bash
• Misc: Linux, Git, Jira, Confluence, Scrum, Kanban