Summary
Arseny Smirnov is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building core systems at Telegram Messenger from 2013 to present. He specializes in backend development for secure, distributed messaging clients, with notable open-source contributions to tdlib/td focused on MTProto key management, secure session teardown, and robust file handling. Prior to Telegram he worked at VK, giving him strong background in large-scale consumer-facing platforms. Based in the United Arab Emirates, he combines deep protocol-level expertise with practical bug-fixing and database reliability work. Colleagues can rely on him for security-minded engineering around authentication, session management, and resilient file workflows.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Petersburg State University