Evgeny Kharitonov
Java Team Lead at Yandex
Moscow, Moscow, Russia
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Top SchoolEvgeny Kharitonov is a Java team lead with 11 years of experience building high-load, data-intensive services at Yandex, where he leads backend efforts for Yandex.Market and previously built core recommender infrastructure for Yandex.Zen. He specializes in scalable Java systems, off-heap memory optimizations, distributed MapReduce pipelines and realtime embedding streams that materially improved recommendation quality and ad revenue. Known for digging deep into logistics and automation, he led initiatives that tripled DB CPU efficiency for peak seasons and significantly lowered per-order delivery costs. A hands-on leader, Evgeny prototypes for scale, mentors engineers through tech design and code reviews, and runs regular knowledge-sharing sessions. Outside work he writes technical posts, contributes on StackOverflow, and volunteers for charity and ecological causes, reflecting a practical engineering ethic with social impact.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)
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Github Skills (59)
asynchronous10
strings10
redis-sentinel10
imap10
redis10
java-client10
redis-client10
pipelining10
smtp10
jmap10
disk10
redis-cluster10
azure-redis-cache10
thread10
business-logic10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mors741/genetic-algorithm
Feb 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:57 commits, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 2 years
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mors741/spring-spittr
Jul 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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