Jana Akhterov
Software Engineer at VSP Vision Care
Sacramento, California, United States
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Top SchoolJana Akhterov is a Principal Software Engineer with eight years of experience designing backend systems, SDKs, and microservices, currently focused on improving developer experience and scalable architectures at VSP Vision Care. She has a strong open-source footprint in the Rust ecosystem—most notably contributing MariaDB protocol support and related work to the widely used sqlx crate—and has led SDK development and tooling improvements at LaunchBadge that cut release and onboarding times dramatically. Comfortable across Rust, TypeScript, Go and Java, Jana blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering: she drives conventions, CI/CD automation, and type-safety migrations that reduce bugs and context-switching. Beyond production engineering, she favors clean, maintainable code and developer tooling, and brings a practical emphasis on code generation and code-first workflows that accelerate teams. An avid open-source advocate based in Sacramento, she also balances technical rigor with offbeat hobbies—from competitive Quake-style gaming to knitting hats for friends.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
California State University, Sacramento
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Github Skills (16)
deserialization10
hedera10
typescript10
javascript10
serializable10
rust10
typescripts10
sdk10
serializer10
typescript-types10
mariadb10
serialization10
async9
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hiero-ledger/hiero-sdk-js
Sep 2019 - Oct 2022
JavaScript/TypeScript SDK for Hiero
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:82 releases, 281 reviews, 1380 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Jana focused on improving the functionality and robustness of the Hiero JavaScript SDK. They addressed critical issues related to query and transaction handling in the context of node testing, including fixing header settings, max query payment, and transaction ID equality checks. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate a deep understanding of the code, particularly within the Query.js, and other relevant code files. Their work directly improved the SDK's ability to interact with the underlying Hashgraph network.
hedera-sdkjavascriptsdkdistributed-ledger-technologyjavascript-typescript
launchbadge/sqlx
Jun 2019 - Jan 2021
🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:119 commits, 7 PRs, 54 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jana primarily contributed to the development of the MariaDB database functionality within the sqlx project. Their work involved implementing support for the MariaDB protocol, including the creation and modification of packet structures for features like initial handshake, result set processing, and prepared statements. The user's commits also encompassed the implementation of serialization and deserialization logic for various MariaDB protocol data types. Furthermore, the user addressed code formatting issues and incorporated standard library components to enable protocol functionality.
pure-rustasynccompile-timesqlitepostgres
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