Irina Bednova
Backend Engineer at Gradient Labs
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIrina Bednova is a seasoned backend engineer and former CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-first, distributed systems. She co-founded Cordless and grew its engineering team to 12 while wearing multiple hats across product, sales, operations, and fundraising, bringing a pragmatic founder’s perspective to engineering decisions. At Monzo she led payments and operations teams, shipping critical systems like Faster Payments and scaling services in high-availability environments. Now at Gradient Labs, she continues to focus on resilient backend architecture and pragmatic delivery under tight deadlines. Known for clear, empathetic communication and a “think like a CEO” approach, she excels at turning ambiguous problems into reliable, product-focused solutions.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc), Computer Science at Bauman Moscow State Technical University
English
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Github Skills (42)
rails10
ruby10
ruby-client10
html10
messaging9
twitter9
mvc9
css9
rabbitmq9
preloader9
ruby-on-rails9
bunny9
react9
activerecord9
cli8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jafrog/jafrog.github.com
Jan 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:26 pushes, 4 branches in 9 years 4 months
jekylldev-blogdev
jafrog/westhoxtonaid
Mar 2020 - May 2020
A website for the West Hoxton mutual aid effort
Contributions:2 PRs, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
effortmutual-aidaidthe-westmutual
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