Anton Yakimov
Chief Technology Officer at Swifter.io
Riga, Vidzeme, Latvia
Summary
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SeniorAnton Yakimov is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Riga with 15 years of hands-on experience building and shipping web applications across Java, PHP, and Ruby on Rails. He has designed and delivered multiple B2B and B2C e-commerce platforms, led production deployments and PHP-to-Rails migrations, and brings strong database and server administration skills (MySQL, Ubuntu Server). A Sun Certified Java Programmer who progressed from junior developer to CTO, he blends architecture-level thinking with practical coding disciplines like BDD/TDD and experience with Spring and Hibernate. He is particularly fluent in web stacks—XML/HTML/JavaScript—and favors pragmatic, usability-focused solutions. Not obviously stated in job titles, he has repeatedly moved between hands-on development and strategic architecture roles, enabling teams to adopt modern Ruby and PHP practices while maintaining legacy Java systems.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Latvian, Russian
Github Skills (78)
log4j10
fluentd10
appender10
log-analysis10
graylog10
java10
logger10
gelf10
logging10
sensor9
quarkus-extension8
custom-component8
prediction-model7
pure-ftpd7
vagrant7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
t0xa/gelfj
Feb 2011 - Jan 2018
Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) implementation in Java and log4j appender without any dependencies.
Contributions:171 commits, 14 PRs, 50 pushes in 7 years
dependenciesgraylogextendedloggerlog4j
t0xa/puppet-nomad
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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