Aidar Islamov
Software Engineer at Yandex
Tbilisi, Georgia
Summary
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Top SchoolAidar Islamov is a software engineer with around four years focused on backend infrastructure and a total of ten years of technical experience, currently based in Tbilisi. He spent three years at Yandex working on large-repository version control systems, specializing in virtual filesystems, high-load backends, cross-platform CLI tools, and deep dives into Git and SVN internals. Earlier work at SKB Kontur involved .NET service hosting, Windows subprocess management, WebUI caching, and pragmatic features like on-demand core-dumping and sampling. Aidar contributes to open-source infrastructure—helping improve a scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler by adding storage control commands, tightening tests, and fixing memory issues—demonstrating attention to reliability and testing. He enjoys the challenges of filesystems development and brings a blend of low-level systems thinking and practical DevOps-minded engineering.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Ural State University named after A.M.GorkyBachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at ITMO University
Github Skills (10)
c1710
postgresql10
c1110
testing9
memory-management9
configuration-management8
cicd8
automations7
bash7
automation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
yandex/odyssey
Nov 2019 - Jun 2020
Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 commits, 22 PRs, 23 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Aidar contributed to the development of the scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler by implementing new console commands for pausing and resuming storage operations. They also refactored the codebase, adding style checks, fixing integer format sequences, and addressing memory leaks. Furthermore, they focused on improving the testing infrastructure by adding teardown procedures, stopping PostgreSQL instances on test failures, and ensuring memory safety within the test suite.
scalableconnectionpostgresconnection-poolerpostgresql
lowgear/odyssey
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Scalable PostgreSQL connection pooler
Contributions:70 pushes, 25 branches in 10 months
scalableconnectionpostgresconnection-poolerdatabase
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