Aidar Shaifutdinov is a software engineering manager with nine years of hands-on experience building backend systems, blockchain applications, and consumer-scale mobile services across C++, Go, Python, Java, Node.js and Solidity. He currently leads cross-functional teams at Yandex Go in Belgrade, having scaled and merged platform teams, shipped dozens of scooter and e-bike features, and led launches across new markets. Comfortable from ideation to production, he has built OAuth/OpenID servers, Lightning Network tooling, and Ethereum DApps that attracted real users, and he contributes to notable open-source projects like Raiden where he modernized core backend logic. A pragmatic leader and former founder, he combines startup grit with enterprise delivery, mentors engineers, runs hiring cycles, and still experiments with ML/AI for fun.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Kazan State University
Contributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 6 comments in 17 days
Contributions summary:Aidar focused on refactoring and modernizing the codebase by removing deprecated and redundant utility functions. Primarily, they removed usages of functions related to address validation, encoding, and decoding across various modules of the Raiden Network. This included changes within API endpoints, blockchain interaction services, and message handling logic. The modifications were aimed at improving code maintainability and efficiency within the Raiden project.
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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Aidar Shaifutdinov - Software Engineering Manager at Yandex Go