Oleg Parashchenko
Software Developer at BurdaForward
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolOleg Parashchenko is a Rust-focused principal full-stack engineer based in Munich with 15+ years of professional experience and a Master’s in Mathematics and Computer Science. He builds scalable, production-grade systems across cloud-native stacks—Kubernetes, AWS, ECS, Terraform—while shipping services that combine vector search, recommendation engines, and realtime AI components. At BurdaForward he led a cross-functional effort to deliver personalized content recommendations using Vespa, OpenAI embeddings and vector search, and he has a track record of turning prototypes into 100x-scalable services at Cliqz. Comfortable across languages (Rust, TypeScript, Node.js, Python, Java) and roles from architect to hands-on implementer, he also publishes tools such as the Rust crate rjiter for streaming JSON. Notably, he blends rigorous academic training with pragmatic product instincts—often extracting clear specifications from ambiguous requirements to accelerate delivery.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Master degree in mathematics and computer science, Master degree in mathematics and computer science at Saint Petersburg State University
English, German, Russian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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26answers
30questions
Github Skills (42)
templating8
bitcoin8
json8
functional7
blockchain7
bitcoin-api6
aws-cli6
scons6
lambda6
aws-cloudformation6
amazon-web-services6
cloudwatch-alarms6
scala6
libxml26
aws5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
olpa/tex
Apr 2011 - Oct 2017
Contributions:247 commits, 30 pushes, 6 comments in 6 years 6 months
olpa/gf-tokipona
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:77 commits, 38 pushes, 5 branches in 8 months
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