Ruslan Shakirov
Senior Software Engineer at Guidehouse
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuslan Shakirov is a System Architect and seasoned backend developer with nine years of experience designing high-load, secure Ruby-based systems and evolving monoliths into service-oriented architectures. He specializes in performance optimization, database scaling (indexing, partitioning, sharding), and resolving Ruby memory bloat and Sidekiq queue issues, often delivering measurable improvements like significant test and runtime speedups. Comfortable across stacks, he has integrated services with major CIS platforms (VK, Odnoklassniki) and built APIs and chatbots that extended product reach. At companies from startups to Uzum, he combines hands-on engineering with mentoring, CI/CD and code-quality culture building. Based in Lisbon, he pairs a technical focus on data protection and observability with a genuine enthusiasm for teaching and continuous improvement. Outside work he pursues language learning and Japanese culture, which fuels his curiosity and methodical approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
Turkish, Russian
Github Skills (7)
virus3
removal3
backup2
recovery2
linux1
rust1
malware1
Github contributions (5)
ruslansco/Foursquare-Data-Analysis
Nov 2017 - May 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 7 months
ruslansco/InstaMedia
Jul 2021 - Jun 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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