Ruslan N
Principal Developer Productivity Engineer at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRuslan N is a Principal Developer Productivity Engineer based in Berlin with over a decade of hands-on experience optimizing developer workflows, mobile platforms, and performance-sensitive systems. He combines deep expertise in Java and Android (including Android Automotive and low-level Android stack work) with a proven track record improving CI/CD pipelines, build analytics, and developer experience at scale. Ruslan has led cross-functional teams at Zalando and HERE Technologies, driving architecture decisions, mentoring engineers, and shipping both consumer apps and backend services in Java, Rust, Kotlin and Node.js. Passionate about performance and graphics, he brings a game-developer’s eye for efficient rendering and resource usage to mobile and SDK development. Outside of work he blends engineering rigor with creativity—an artist at heart whose optimization-first mindset surfaces in both code and visual projects.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B.A, Applied Mathematics, B.A, Applied Mathematics at Baku State UniversityB.Sc, Computer Sciences, B.Sc, Computer Sciences at The Hebrew University of JerusalemM.Sc, Computer Sciences, (not complete), M.Sc, Computer Sciences, (not complete) at The Open University of Israel
Hebrew, English, RussianGithub contributions (5)
novikov1ruslan/SmsWizard
Aug 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:25 commits in 19 days
novikov1ruslan/common
Aug 2016 - May 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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