Summary
Arturs Jefimovs is a Senior Golang Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing high-load, low-latency distributed systems and scalable backend architectures. He specializes in Go and ecosystem tooling—NATS, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Docker, Terraform and AWS—while also bringing practical knowledge of C/C++, Python, Java and JavaScript. Arturs combines rigorous engineering practices (DDD, DI, testing, profiling, concurrency) with a focus on reliability and measurable performance improvements, often driving automation and CI/CD efficiencies. He mentors teams, leads code reviews and owns integrations with external platforms, translating complex requirements into maintainable microservices and operators. Beyond production systems, he maintains an open-source Free Oberon compiler/IDE project and wrote a master’s thesis on compiling Oberon to ARM64, reflecting deep systems-level curiosity that informs his everyday architecture decisions. Based in Riga, he actively applies AI-enhanced tools to accelerate development and optimization.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Transport and Telecommunication Institute (TSI)
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Latvia (Latvijas Universitāte)
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Plymouth
English, Russian, Latvian, Esperanto, German