Summary
Ruslan Grokhovetsky is a seasoned Lead Backend and Data Engineer with 15+ years of professional experience and over two decades of full-stack web background, currently driving backend and data efforts at Smart Business Technologies and Yandex. He specializes in high-load distributed systems, Big Data pipelines, and production ML-powered services—having architected and scaled Yandex.Weather and rebuilt Yandex.Afisha backend with Python, Flask, MongoDB and cross-DC map-reduce infrastructures. Comfortable across languages (Python, C++, Java, PHP, Perl, RoR) and data tools (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, TF/Keras), he combines machine learning experiments, recommendation engines, and operational expertise to ship resilient, low-latency APIs. Beyond backend engineering he brings a rare mix of creative and product sensibility from years in UX, web design and video/3D production, which informs pragmatic API and UX-aware architecture decisions. Known for rapid troubleshooting, hands-on project ownership and mentoring, he has repeatedly led small teams to successful product relaunches under heavy load. Based in Novi Sad, he thrives on challenging projects where he can apply both deep technical breadth and fast-learning adaptability.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
specialist degree (5 years), Computer Science, specialist degree (5 years), Computer Science at Kurgan State University
Английский, Русский