Summary
Eugene Evstafev is a pragmatic software developer and engineering leader with 8–11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale systems used by millions, currently owning the University of Cambridge’s identity platform and driving a GCP re-architecture that materially reduced authentication defects. He has led and coordinated multi-team efforts (up to 21 people) across fintech, retail, and public sectors, translating legacy monoliths into microservices, improving CI/CD practices, and delivering high-impact automation. A prolific open-source maintainer and writer, Eugene publishes 50+ Python packages on PyPI (700k+ downloads) and maintains the most-starred telegram-mcp repo on GitHub, while ranking #2 on Russian Stack Overflow. His background blends hands-on full‑stack development (React, Django, Java, PostgreSQL, Terraform) with formal architecture and research experience, including peer-reviewed papers and conference reviewing. Known for mentoring new joiners and raising team code quality, he combines systems thinking with an appetite for reproducible, well-documented engineering.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Business informatics, Bachelor, Business informatics at Higher School of Economics National Research University
Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Master's degree, Applied Mathematics and Computer Science at Perm National Research Polytechnic University