Oleg Silkin
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat
Greater Boston United States
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Top SchoolOleg Silkin is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Red Hat with four years of hands-on experience building large-scale web services and full-stack applications. He combines backend expertise in Go, Rust, Java, and Python with frontend skills in TypeScript, React/Next.js and mobile frameworks, and production deployment know-how using Docker and Kubernetes/OpenShift. At Red Hat he focuses on LLM post-training and optimization, translating ML research into performant, deployable systems. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced Backstage plugins across both frontend and backend, showing attention to developer UX as well as API and backend configuration. He holds a dual BS in Mathematics and Computer Science and brings a pragmatic, performance-minded approach—evident from past work that dramatically improved query speeds and integrated complex plugins into larger frameworks. Based in Greater Boston, he pairs a continuous-learning mindset with a track record of shipping reliable, scalable software.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Mathematics and Computer Science at Framingham State UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Mathematics and Computer Science, Associate of Science - AS Mathematics and Computer Science at Harper College
Russian, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
plugin-development10
typescript10
backstage10
typescripts10
api10
apidoc10
react10
typescript-types10
nodejs8
back-end-development8
docker6
dockers6
microservices5
microservices-application5
cnc5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jan 2023 - Sep 2023
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 14 PRs, 78 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Oleg primarily contributed to the `api-docs` and `todo-backend` plugins within the Backstage framework. Their work involved implementing new features, such as the addition of a tRPC API definition widget, and integrating the `todo-backend` plugin with the new plugin system. They also focused on ensuring correct syntax highlighting and updating catalog-model changesets, indicating a focus on both frontend and backend aspects of the project. Additionally, they updated backend configurations.
backstageinfrastructuredxdeveloper-experiencedeveloper-portal
RobotSail/volsync
Jan 2022 - Jul 2022
Asynchronous data replication for Kubernetes volumes
Contributions:5 reviews, 1 PR, 113 pushes in 6 months
asynchronousvolumeskubernetes-volumesdata-replicationkubernetes
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