Artem Zakirullin
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolArtem Zakirullin is a seasoned software architect and staff engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and teams. He has led platform scaling to a billion users and 25 countries, cut operational costs threefold, and shipped AI-first products from idea to release in months. Technically hands-on across Golang, Python, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL and streaming/observability stacks, he combines deep architecture skills with pragmatic delivery—designing fault-tolerant services that achieved 99.999% SLAs and meaningful revenue uplift via recommendation systems. As a former CTO and long-time tech lead, he hires and mentors cross-functional teams while standardizing component-based frameworks adopted company-wide. Now on sabbatical in Limassol, Cyprus, he’s author of the piece “Cognitive Load is what matters,” reflecting a strong focus on developer experience and reducing complexity as a lever for velocity.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Information Technology, Master's degree, Information Technology at Orenburg State University (OSU)
Github Skills (95)
parser10
lexer10
chat10
bison10
lexical-analysis10
commonmark10
compiler-construction10
markdown10
codegen10
beancount10
agent10
obsidian10
yacc10
image-recognition10
llamacpp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zakirullin/csrf-middleware
May 2018 - Nov 2019
PSR-15 middleware to handle CSRF-token verification
Contributions:43 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 1 year 6 months
phptokenbcryptverificationpsr-15
zakirullin/cognitive-load
May 2023 - Mar 2025
🧠 Cognitive Load is what matters
Contributions:3 releases, 16 PRs, 582 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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