Summary
Kostyantyn Fomin is a senior systems development engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale messaging infrastructures, currently driving Google Communications systems that power SMS/MMS/RCS for many Alphabet products. He combines deep protocol expertise in SMPP and SS7 (SIGTRAN, TCAP, MAP) with strong software skills in C++, Go, and Python to design resilient, high-throughput gateways and delivery pipelines. His background spans carrier-grade operations, cloud networking (GCE/GKE), load balancing, TLS/IPSec security, and automation using Ansible and Chef, with hands-on Linux and FreeBSD administration. Previously he improved mobile messaging and real-time infrastructure at Facebook and led complex integrations and deployments at Acision, giving him rare end-to-end visibility from protocol design to production incident response. Trained originally as a medical doctor in ophthalmology, he brings an analytical, methodical approach to troubleshooting and system reliability. Based in San Francisco, he blends telecom domain mastery with modern cloud-native engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Medical Doctor, Ophthalmology, Medical Doctor, Ophthalmology at Donetsk State Medical University 'M. Gorky'
Czech, Ukrainian, Russian, English