Evgeny Karataev
Staff Software Engineer at Hipcamp
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolEvgeny Karataev is a Staff Software Engineer in Chicago with 12 years of professional experience and a strong full-stack background spanning Java, Python, JavaScript, and modern cloud-native tooling. He has led and contributed to distributed big-data platforms and production ML/analytics infrastructure at Nielsen and now drives engineering at Hipcamp, blending backend services, data systems, and deployment automation. Comfortable across databases from MySQL and PostgreSQL to Neo4j and PrestoDB, he pairs pragmatic engineering with CI/CD, containerization, and orchestration (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm). His early research and internships produced tangible performance wins—an 18x speedup in genetic-algorithm code and scalable architecture-analysis tooling—illustrating a focus on algorithmic optimization and system-level improvements. Evgeny also brings academic rigor (PhD in Information Science) and teaching experience, enabling him to mentor teams and translate complex data problems into deployable solutions. Outside of work he mixes deep technical curiosity with diverse interests, including classical guitar and Chinese language studies, reflecting a habit of cross-disciplinary learning.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. (Cum Laude), Computer Science, Cumulative GPA = 4.94/5, Dipl.-Ing. (Cum Laude), Computer Science, Cumulative GPA = 4.94/5 at Tomsk state university of control systems and radioelectronicsDiploma of Music Education, Classical Guitar, Diploma of Music Education, Classical Guitar at Children's Music School №1CourseraPhD, Information Science, 3.98, PhD, Information Science, 3.98 at University of PittsburghShort-term language studies diploma, Chinese Language, Short-term language studies diploma, Chinese Language at Shanghai International Studies UniversityHigh School Diploma, Math and Physics, 4.9/5, High School Diploma, Math and Physics, 4.9/5 at Regional Specialized Boarding School for Gifted children ”Murager”
English, Russian, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (29)
nginx8
docker8
serverless8
kong8
api8
gateway8
api-gateway8
artificial-intelligence8
reverse-proxy8
devops7
kubernetes7
ai7
luajit7
microservices7
kubernetes-ingress6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
infsci2711/MultiDBs-MetaStore-Server
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:46 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
ColFusion/ColfusionServer
May 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:76 pushes, 6 branches, 11 comments in 5 months
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