Makar Baranov
Application Engineer
Tokyo, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolMakar Baranov is an application engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building, securing, and operating distributed systems, currently based in Tokyo and working at Rakuten. He has a strong track record at Infinite Campus designing scalable data backup and migration tooling for millions of student records, reducing resource usage and enabling sub-30-minute cutovers. Comfortable across development, architecture, hosting and DevOps, he has implemented Kubernetes deployments, CI/CD pipelines, SSO with Keycloak, and automated TLS renewal—bridging infrastructure and application concerns. Makar also mentors engineers, drives Agile adoption, and has a knack for turning operational pain points into automated, secure solutions. A detail that sets him apart is his background in computational linear algebra and academic teaching, which informs a rigorous, measurement-driven approach to performance and reliability.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, 3.75, Computer Science, 3.75 at Diablo Valley CollegeComputer Science, 4.0, Computer Science, 4.0 at Moraine Valley Community CollegeUniversity of Minnesota Twin Cities
English, Russian, Japanese
Github Skills (3)
stylish6
jekyll-theme5
jekyll5
Github contributions (5)
login-m/login-m.github.io
Jul 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:49 commits, 58 pushes, 5 branches in 9 months
stylishjekylljekyll-theme
login-m/4061-Project-1
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 7 days
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