Ildar Almakaev
Backend Software Engineer at Almatech
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Summary
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Top SchoolIldar Almakaev is a backend and data engineer with 10 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems from Barcelona. He specializes in Java-based reactive backends, streaming ETL and batch data pipelines using Kafka, ksqlDB, AWS Glue and Redshift, and holds AWS Data Analytics certification. At Provectus he helped design a near real-time data platform and contributed schema-registry features to the popular open-source Kafka UI project, demonstrating hands-on expertise in both production systems and developer tooling. Currently he focuses on high-throughput, low-latency services for betting platforms using Spring WebFlux, gRPC and Kafka, with a track record of reducing technical debt through refactoring and performance optimization. His academic background in applied mathematics and mechanical engineering informs a pragmatic, algorithm-aware approach to engineering complex data workflows.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Applied Mathematics, Master's degree Applied Mathematics at Kazan State UniversityMechanical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering at Institute of Mechanics and Engineering, Russian Academy of Science
Russian, English
Github Skills (16)
javas10
api-rest10
kafka10
rest-api10
apache-kafka10
webclient10
schema10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
spring-boot10
integration-testing9
junit9
unit-testing9
open-source8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
provectus/kafka-ui
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Open-Source Web UI for Apache Kafka Management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 reviews, 12 commits, 15 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ildar primarily contributed to the development of the Kafka UI's schema registry functionality. Their work included adding CRUD operations for schema registry services, implementing endpoints for retrieving and managing schemas, and creating unit and integration tests. The user also refactored the schema API contract and integrated the WebClient bean for API interactions, improving the overall functionality and maintainability of the schema registry features. Further, they made improvements in handling schema registry API responses.
streamscluster-managementkafka-connectapache-kafkakafka-manager
IldarAlmakaev/OpenFOAM
Dec 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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