Aidar Samerkhanov
Kazan, Tatarstan, Russia
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Top SchoolAidar Samerkhanov is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of experience specializing in database internals, query optimization, and AI-driven optimization techniques. He has led high-impact work on distributed OLAP/OLTP systems at Yandex (YDB) and Huawei (GaussDB), pioneering vectorized query execution with Apache Arrow and exploring machine-learning approaches to join-order and adaptive optimization. Aidar combines hands-on performance tuning—from TPC-DS improvements to fast data warehouse loaders—with architecture and team leadership across cloud migrations and data-platform builds. He has driven practical tooling and benchmarking (including a YDB workload tool) and built reliable migration strategies for Kafka and ETL at scale. Based in Kazan, he blends deep academic training (Master’s in Computer Science) with a pragmatic focus on measurable throughput and latency gains, often finding novel intersections between research papers and production systems.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Kazan State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (129)
graph-algorithms10
high-availability10
graph-database10
bigtable10
stream-processing10
cpp10
cloud-native10
memgraph10
streaming10
nosql10
dao10
kafka-streams10
neo4j10
cypher10
sql10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Darych/ydb
Dec 2023 - Aug 2024
YDB is an open source Distributed SQL Database that combines high availability and scalability with strong consistency and ACID transactions
Contributions:75 pushes, 38 branches in 8 months
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