Rust Saiargaliev / Curriculum vitae

based in Berlin, Germany

Experience

Lead Software Engineer @ voiio

July 2024 - present
June 2021 - July 2024, 3 years as a Senior Software Engineer

I am working in a brilliant small team, maintaining and enhancing digital B2B-platform and related services.

  • Revamped the existing data warehouse and lifted the overall company's data culture by conducting workshops
  • Implemented a video-on-demand solution based on AWS infrastructure (MediaConvert, Lambda, CloudFront)
  • Co-developed emark - an open-source Django library to create and send markdown-based emails
  • Created an AI deployment pipeline for OpenAI-based internal and external assistants

Core Maintainer @ Model Bakery

December 2018 - present, 6 years and counting

Honored to be a part of the core team of a popular library for creating fixtures for tests.

Senior Software Engineer @ Thermondo

April 2019 - May 2021, 2 years
March 2016 - April 2019, 3 years as a Software Engineer

I was maintaining backend monolithic (~150kloc) and microservice applications for company business processes.

  • Kept the stack and open-source/closed-source libraries up-to-date and well-tested (90%+ coverage)
  • Improved engineering processes (architectural decision notes, post-mortems, maintenance)
  • Established data communication between the backend and Salesforce via API from scratch
  • Created a bidirectional sync microservice for CRM communication (Salesforce+Close.com)
  • Bootstrapped a Slack bot to share feedback between team members
  • Built an incident monitoring tool for 3rd party services

Web Developer (volunteering) @ MKCorp

November 2014 - March 2016, 1.5 years

With a bunch of creative people around the world, we were building an indie MMORPG game. Lack of time and any funding stopped us from going any further than a basic prototype.

  • Bootstrapped a website
  • Developed a fully functional game forum from scratch
  • Started building a payment system integrated with the game API

Web Developer @ SMENA

October 2013 - December 2015, 2 years

Built and maintained various websites and complex web services for external clients.

Security Engineer @ Bashneft

February 2013 - October 2013, 9 months

Security administrator in charge of the corporate antivirus and antispam security systems covering 20,000 users.

Engineer's degree @ Ufa State Aviation Technical University (now UUST)

2008 - 2013, 5 years

Thesis: "Innovations in a corporate network security infrastructure"

Skill set

  • Python — Django, DRF, Flask, Celery, Dramatiq, pytest
  • Javascript — htmx, Lit, Svelte, Vue, React, jQuery
  • Databases — PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Heroku Connect, Metabase
  • CI — GitHub Actions, Travis, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Heroku CI
  • Management — GitHub, Jira, Confluence, Redmine, Trello, YouTrack
  • Misc — Heroku, Salesforce, Docker, AWS (Lambda, S3, SES, etc.), LLM
  • Soft skills — hiring, onboarding, and mentoring

Extra

  • Languages — English (fluent), Russian (native), German (intermediate)
  • Open Source — active OSS contributor, see github.com/amureki
  • Community — Moderated @pydjango (6000 members) and founded @django_jobs (4000 members)
  • Talks — co-organized and talked at DUG and PUG Berlin meetups
  • Hobbies — jogging, photography, video games