Renat Zhilkibaev
Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRenat Zhilkibaev is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and cloud-native services, primarily in Java. He has shipped production services across startups and scale-ups—from founding-engineer responsibilities at Kraftful to platform work at Amplitude—and is fluent in AWS, Terraform, Docker, Spring, and serverless architectures. Renat favors incremental delivery and end-to-end team ownership, automating testing and deployment to keep codebases maintainable and operable. His background includes building decision engines for ad campaign management, a zero-knowledge proof-of-concept in serverless AWS, and connectivity layers for reporting platforms, reflecting a mix of systems design and pragmatic implementation. Colleagues rely on him to propose measurable improvements across QA, operations, and architecture, and he enjoys tackling intellectual engineering challenges alongside like-minded teams. A practical polyglot (Java, Python, SQL) with deep attention to automation, he often bridges product needs and operational reality to accelerate delivery.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Kostanai Social Technical University, KazakhstanBachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Software Engineering at Troitsk Civil Aviation Technical College, Russia
English, Russian
Github Skills (45)
kinesis-stream9
java8
lambda8
amazon-ecs8
serp-api7
aws7
sql7
database7
sqlite7
serverless6
oracle6
aws-lambda6
db26
jdbc6
google-maps-scraping6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rzhilkibaev/shmenkins
Jul 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 144 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 1 month
rzhilkibaev/jst
Jan 2015 - Feb 2021
Contributions:125 commits, 92 pushes, 2 issues in 6 years 1 month
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