Samat Galimov
Chief Technology Officer at FANS
Riga, Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolSamat Galimov is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 11+ years building high-impact products and teams across media, consumer apps, and marketplaces from Riga. He co-founded boutique engineering firm FANS to deliver MVPs and scalable V1s rapidly for venture-backed startups and corporations, drawing on prior CTO roles at Meduza, RAWG and Bookmate. At Meduza he scaled a news platform to 10M monthly readers, shipped multi-platform apps, and led digital-security and red-team efforts to withstand censorship and sophisticated threats. He helped compile the world’s largest video game database at RAWG and negotiated a strategic license with Microsoft, showing an ability to turn technical assets into commercial outcomes. A pragmatist who still writes and speaks publicly about engineering, he combines hands-on systems experience with product leadership and a taste for hard technical challenges (billing integrations, infra, and adversarial security).
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
LKSHLomonosov Moscow State University
English, Russian, Turkish, Tatar
Github Skills (94)
visual-studio-extension10
google-play-store10
google-play10
android-emulator10
solidity9
taiga9
scripting9
mozilla9
ansible8
visual-studio-for-mac8
smart-contracts8
python8
contract8
security8
slack-bot8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
meduza-corp/interstellar
Feb 2015 - Jun 2016
Google Play Store reviews to Slack
Contributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 1 year 3 months
android-emulatorstore-reviewsslackgoogle-playgoogle-play-store
gsamat/gsamat.github.io
Jan 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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