Anton Sozontov
Engineering Manager at Workato
Huntersville, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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SeniorAnton Sozontov is an engineering manager and hands-on software leader with over 15 years building high-traffic web platforms across MarTech, PropTech, E-Government, and E-Commerce. He has driven product and infrastructure wins—launching subscribers.com (boosting revenue 40%), migrating billing to Stripe (cutting churn 20%), and slashing infrastructure costs by 60% through pragmatic architecture and service decomposition. At HelloBar he led a team that supported millions of popup impressions and hundreds of millions of notifications monthly; more recently he progressed from senior engineer to engineering manager at Workato. A pragmatic Ruby/Rails and Elasticsearch specialist, Anton contributes to notable open-source projects (including enhancements to SimpleForm and Chewy) and brings strong QA, testing, and ops sensibilities. He’s a certified Scrum Master and IEEE Senior Member who combines mentoring with hands-on coding, optimizing systems for reliability and conversion. Based in Huntersville, NC, he pairs startup agility with enterprise-grade delivery and a track record of measurable business impact.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
English, Russian
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Github Skills (24)
form-builder10
ruby-rails10
dsl10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
git-repository10
rails10
package-repository10
ruby10
elasticsearch-client10
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
web-framework10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-api10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
toptal/chewy
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
High-level Elasticsearch Ruby framework based on the official elasticsearch-ruby client
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 9 days
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on improving the Chewy framework, an Elasticsearch Ruby framework. They fixed specifications related to ActiveRecord, moved errors to a separate file for better organization, and added a repository feature. Furthermore, the user implemented settings-related functionality, injecting dependencies and resolving various components within the framework. These changes demonstrate a focus on the internal workings and configuration of the Chewy library.
ruby-frameworkelastichigh-levelruby-clientruby
heartcombo/simple_form
Jun 2013 - Jun 2013
Forms made easy for Rails! It's tied to a simple DSL, with no opinion on markup.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits in 11 days
Contributions summary:Anton primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the SimpleForm gem, a Rails form builder. Their contributions included allowing the use of numbers in model names, optimizing regular expressions within the form builder, and addressing incorrect usage of methods. The user also added and modified tests to ensure the correct behavior of form generation.
ruby-on-railsform-builderrails-helperopinionrails
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