Summary
Ruslan Manaev is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance, reliable systems across cloud, search, and algo-trading domains. He has driven reliability and observability at scale—authoring availability monitoring for Google Cloud services used by hundreds of millions and cutting system downtime by 40%—and boosted search quality at Yandex by shrinking incident reaction times from an hour to seconds. Comfortable in C++, Kotlin, and Go, Ruslan has optimized critical tooling (including a 30x speedup for a plotting tool) and lowered ML model and system latencies via algorithmic and low-level OS improvements. Now based in Seattle and working at DoorDash after a tenure on Google Cloud’s Observability team, he combines hands-on systems programming with a pragmatic DevOps mindset. As a former lecturer and intern who has navigated million-line codebases, he’s as effective mentoring teams and improving developer experience as he is shipping production-grade code. He also holds US permanent residency, easing cross-border hiring and long-term project continuity.
10 years of coding experience