Rust Saiargaliev
Senior engineer focused on operational reliability, performance, and developer tooling.
I am
- currently lead engineer at voiio, helping scale and maintain a platform spanning wellbeing content, AI workflows, and video infrastructure.
What I focus on
- improving mature Django systems without rewriting them from scratch.
- making production systems easier to debug, observe, and safely evolve.
- reducing operational friction through better tooling, testing, CI, and deployment practices.
- shipping pragmatic solutions quickly while keeping long-term maintainability in mind.
Selected projects and open-source work
- Model Bakery — the go-to Django fixture library with 1.4M+ monthly downloads.
- YearYear — a small app for yearly reflection and planning.
- pypigraph.org — a visualization tool for exploring Python package dependencies.
- django-devbar — a browser devtool for measuring SQL queries.
Occasionally, I write
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Previously, I used to
- work at thermondo, SMENA, and in other places.
- create and moderate engineering communities, host meetups, and give lightning talks.
- abandon a lot of side projects.
See my full CV.