Summary
Ivan Bahdanau is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 14 years of experience building high-throughput, reliable backend systems using J2EE and modern cloud services. At Google he works on core platform components (ADK, Agents, Gemini, MCPs), and previously led API and infrastructure efforts at Fitbit that processed tens of millions of push notifications daily with an uninterrupted production record. He has hands-on experience designing auth gateways, API frontends, and CI-driven code-quality tooling that scaled across engineering organizations. Earlier roles as CTO and technical lead show his ability to take products from architecture through delivery, including desktop Java apps, data crawlers, and enterprise course management systems. He pairs strong mathematical training with practical operational discipline, and is known for preventing outages through careful design and automation.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Mathematics, Programming, Master, Mathematics, Programming at Belarusian State University
Bachelors, Mathematics, Bachelors, Mathematics at Logos
Russian, Russian, English