Fedor Matantsev
Head Of Ride Hailing Mobility Team At Yandex Go
Minsk, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolFedor Matantsev is a results-driven engineering leader with eight years of C++ backend experience, currently heading the Ride Hailing Mobility team at Yandex Go after leading logistics backend and algorithms teams at Yandex Lavka. He blends hands-on systems programming with product-minded leadership, shipping scalable services for real-time dispatch and logistics. Fedor has deep technical roots in performance-sensitive code—contributing to appleseed’s camera module with mathematical features like bezier shutter curves and polynomial root finding, and adding an Embree intersection backend—demonstrating comfort with both algorithms and rendering internals. He has a track record of moving from individual contributor work at CQG and EPAM to cross-functional team leadership, always keeping code quality and efficiency front and center. Based in Minsk and formally trained at MIET, he balances his engineering focus with creative pursuits like game development, photography and sketching, which inform his product creativity. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who enjoys sharpening technical skills through side projects and open-source contributions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at National Research University of Electronic Technology (MIET)
English, Russian
Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
c-language10
cpp10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
render10
rendering10
lightening9
lighty9
lightning9
animation8
python7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
appleseedhq/appleseed
Mar 2018 - Sep 2018
A modern open source rendering engine for animation and visual effects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 12 PRs, 106 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Fedor primarily contributed to the camera module within the appleseed rendering engine. They refactored existing code and added new features, including functionality for a bezier shutter curve. The user implemented functions for polynomial evaluation and root finding, demonstrating a focus on mathematical aspects of the rendering pipeline. Their work also included fixes to existing code and the introduction of an Embree intersection backend, enhancing the rendering capabilities.
rendering-enginevfxanimationblendercpp
morph-project/Morph
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:26 PRs, 128 pushes, 21 branches in 1 month
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