Rust Saiargaliev

Building and evolving a B2B employee-wellbeing platform supporting employees and their families across hundreds of German companies.

• Led technical direction across platform reliability, infrastructure, integrations, analytics, and AI initiatives within a small engineering team
• Led ongoing performance work across the stack: frontend profiling and rendering fixes, Django query optimization, dependency cleanup, and faster startup/CI feedback loops
• Drove infrastructure cost optimization by reducing monitoring noise, removing unused services, right-sizing Heroku resources, and moving Metabase to a faster, lower-cost setup
• Reworked company analytics by introducing business-oriented materialized views, scheduled refreshes, and indexing, improving dashboard performance and reporting reliability
• Implemented a video-on-demand pipeline on AWS infrastructure (MediaConvert, Lambda, CloudFront), turning daily live events into searchable platform recordings
• Built a prompt-to-agent deployment pipeline for LLM assistants, turning prompt changes into a repeatable release process

Maintaining a popular Django fixture library — 1.4M+ monthly downloads, listed in the official Django ecosystem.

Owned backend systems powering heating-system offers and field workflows for hundreds of technicians and thousands of customers.

• Integrated Salesforce into business processes in under 3 months by building the backend-to-Salesforce API layer from scratch
• Created a bidirectional sync microservice for CRM communication (Salesforce + Close.com)
• Introduced architectural decision notes, post-mortems, and regular maintenance practices to make decisions traceable, reduce repeat incidents, and keep maintenance debt visible
• Maintained a well-tested codebase through strong automated test coverage and continuous upgrades of internal and external dependencies
• Bootstrapped a Slack bot to share feedback between team members
• Built an incident monitoring tool for third-party services

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

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

• Built a backend for the Boostframe crowdfunding platform
• Maintained a food delivery website and CRM
• Created API libraries and various automations to work with advertising networks Yandex.Direct and Mail.Ru Target

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

Thesis: “Innovations in a corporate network security infrastructure”