Summary
Anton Lakhtikov is an experienced software developer with 18 years of hands-on engineering across backend systems, test automation, and infra for both startups and large tech firms. He has built production services from virtual banking features at BlueVine to a peer-powered CDN MVP at FarbaCDN that reached 80 Gbps capacity and supported 6 PB/month. Anton has strong Python and systems experience (Django, PostgreSQL, Docker, Ansible, CI/CD) and has applied it in roles from data engineering at Meta’s monetization reliability team to GIS APIs and data-science bindings. He’s contributed to prominent open-source efforts—improving internationalization for the well-known HTML5 Boilerplate site by adding Russian localization and fixing translation integration. With an M.S. in Physics and early embedded/RTOS work, he brings a pragmatic, low-level understanding that informs reliable, production-grade software. Based in Fremont, CA, he combines startup agility with large-scale operational discipline to ship measurable results.
18 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Physics, M.S., Physics at Moscow State University
No degree, Computer Science, No degree, Computer Science at Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Donetsk, Ukraine
English, Ukrainian, Russian