Kir Apukhtin
Technical Unit Lead at Avito
Saint Petersburg, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Summary
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Top SchoolKir Apukhtin is a seasoned technical leader with nine years of experience guiding backend teams and building fault-tolerant, high-availability systems across adtech and marketplace domains. Currently a Technical Unit Lead at Avito, he progressed through team and backend lead roles at Avito, HypeAuditor, Alyce and Roxot, consistently focusing on scalable microservice architectures and production resilience. His early work driving an OpenRTB Demand-Side Platform prototype and RTB systems highlights a practical expertise in real-time bidding, containerized deployments and automation. Comfortable shifting between hands-on engineering and people leadership, he brings a track record of rapid prototyping under Scrum and pragmatic migrations that reduced operational load. Based in Saint Petersburg, Kir blends deep PHP-era backend experience with modern orchestration and testing practices to deliver reliable systems at scale.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Информационные технологии, Информационные технологии at Кузбасский Государственный Технический Университет (КузГТУ)
English
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
advertising10
header-bidding9
prebid9
php1
testing1
phpunit1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
roxot-team/Prebid.js
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Setup and manage header bidding advertising partners without writing code or confusing line items. Prebid.js is open source and free.
Contributions:28 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 2 months
headerprebidjavascriptconfusingbidding
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