Evgeny Veretennikov
Development Team Lead at Yandex
Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolEvgeny Veretennikov is a Development Team Lead with nine years of experience building and stabilizing distributed backend services, currently leading engineering efforts at Yandex Classifieds. He specializes in improving software quality through better development processes—introducing code review practices, incident reporting, and reliable alerting that measurably reduced production issues and concurrency bugs. Technically hands-on, Evgeny drove migration of legacy synchronous code to ZIO, improved resilience around network failures, and implemented monetization services for Auto.ru using Scala, ZIO, Akka HTTP, and MySQL. An active open-source contributor, he has optimized core concurrency primitives in the popular ZIO library to make parallel operations stack-safe and faster, bringing production-grade benchmarking to his patches. Based in Russia, he combines team leadership with deep backend performance expertise and a pragmatic focus on observability and maintainability.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering at Moscow Aviation Institute (National Research University)
Russian, English
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Github Skills (18)
asynchronous10
async10
protocol-buffers10
zio10
scala10
effects10
functional-programming10
concurrency10
unit-testing8
maven6
yaml6
spring-boot6
pomxml6
intellij-idea6
java6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
zio/zio
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
ZIO — A type-safe, composable library for async and concurrent programming in Scala
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 11 PRs, 44 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Evgeny primarily focused on optimizing the ZIO library, specifically improving the performance of asynchronous operations. Their contributions include refactoring unit-related code, making `foreachPar_` and `mergeAllPar`, and `reduceAllPar` stack-safe and optimized, and implementing `ZIO.not`. These changes aimed to enhance the library's efficiency in handling concurrent and parallel computations. The user also addressed bug fixes and included performance benchmarks for comparing the improvements.
functional-programmingqueuesstreamsasynchronicityasync
evis/scalafix-maven-plugin
Jun 2019 - Oct 2022
Enables automatic refactoring and linting of Maven projects written in Scala using Scalafix.
Contributions:17 releases, 16 reviews, 40 commits in 3 years 4 months
maven-pluginlintermavenlintingsbt-plugin
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